# Could a WW1 fighter pilot fly a F111 (possible spoilers)

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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 27, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-ww1-fighter-pilot-fly-a-f111-possible-spoilers/929018 "2020-12-27T13:11:26Z")
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### Author: ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-ww1-fighter-pilot-fly-a-f111-possible-spoilers/929018/50 "2021-07-11T15:04:15Z")

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> [@RickJay](#):
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> I do not for an instant think a WWI pilot could fly a modern jet. It’s ridiculous.

Or even an F15 pilot fly a Tornado, without at least some instruction. As our resident fighter pilot @LSLGuy once said.

> [@How hard is it to fly--at least take off and land--a military/civil jet if you' we never flow it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hard-is-it-to-fly-at-least-take-off-and-land-a-military-civil-jet-if-you-we-never-flow-it/732250/13):
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> I recall in the Olde Dayes sitting in captured Soviet equipment and thinking that there’s no way in hell I could start or fly this thing cold. If somebody else started it I might get it off the ground, but I’d be ejecting rather than landing. Assuming I could figure out how to even do that. It was so foreign it was more like alien

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