Replicator; I’d simply get much more use out of it than a ring I couldn’t afford to be seen using.
Or more specifically, if you try you end up with a replicated corpse.
The ring. Not only is the food replicator boring, it’s more limited. I can make a couple of round trips to the moon with 1 million miles worth of flight. That, vs. 5 years worth of food is a total no-brainer.
Flight ring. Flying is awesome enough as it is, so to do it without a plane? Awesome to the MAX! Plus it would make for the best cosplay - Rocketeer, Superman, Hawkman…
That, and I actually enjoy cooking, so the replicator is actually taking away something I like doing.
The thing I think many are missing with the replicator is that you don’t have to stop cooking, you can just replicate the all the raw ingredients, and rare ingredients that are hard to find or are seasonal. You never have to go to the store! And you can still cook all you want.
I like shopping for ingredients almost as much as I like cooking them. and now I can fly to the shops!
Yes I can go to a store.
I can take a 3 hour boat ride through chop to go diving as well, but its a tad more painful. With a flight ring its no more 10 minute waits for chair lifts when skiing, quick trips around Australia to dive different sites, camera angles galore, skiing for a day from the city, visit Dad in the weekend in NZ, its gold. Id take a plane flight to Europe then travel all over from that point. Tons of possibilities.
If all those stinky reality losing your finger…hand things didnt get in the way.
Otara
It’s still meh. Waiting for things to be in season, and hunting for things that are rare are facets of the enjoyment.
If it was a general purpose replicator (not just food), I’d be on the horns of a dilemma.
A maximum airspeed of only 200 mph??? At that rate it would take more like 24 hours to fly from New York to London! And all that time over water? With no food or beverage? It’d be worse than flying in the Spirit of St. Louis!
Give me supersonic and transatmospheric capability, and we’ll talk about it. In the meantime, I’ll take the replicator plus some extra power units.
Oh, and Terry Farrell isn’t “very pretty.” She’s SMOKIN’ HOT!!! 
No, 600 mph. The 200 mph is merely the “rated” speed to get a million miles out of the fuel source, not the maximum.
I forgot to ask, Skald - does your ring enable spaceflight like its namesake? Because that takes it out of the realm of awesome to must-have, IMO.
I have a modest proposal…
Oh, great. Now it’s gonna take all my willpower to resist asking the replicator to whip up a dead baby. Thank you so much. :mad: 
You say that, but my wife would still have nightmares about giving birth to a giant ear of corn.
I get to take the “Loophole” option. 
I’m going to rule yes and no. Yes in the sense that you could probably get into orbit, but since this isn’t one of those Threeboot rings that has the transparent spacesuit function built in, you’d be a fool to use it.
Besides, where would you go?
You didn’t read closely. The maximum airspeed is just under the speed of sound. The 200 mph figure was mentioned in saying how much fuel you have: enough to last about a million miles if you average 200 mph.
I’ve already written that using the ring for transoceanic flights is ill thought.
Well, yeah: even at 600 mph personal airspeed, I think I’d prefer to hop in a plane when traveling thousands of miles. Flying across the Atlantic, or coast to coast in the U.S., would be work, and if I could fly per the OP’s specs, I wouldn’t want it to become just another form of drudgery.
ETA: I see the OP just reminded us that he was thinking along similar lines.
I am married to a Doper, but we also have a kid who’s fun to be around. Of course, he does have his own account now as well, so I guess we could have *three *flight rings…
…but instead I think we should get three replicators. That gets us 15 years worth of free food…the money we save will buy a few plane tickets…
I could wear a normal spacesuit and still use it, though, right? Maybe offer to test that new space activity skinsuit they’re developing?
As to where to go, I think “Space” is all the answer I need.
I could reach the Moon a couple times over, but that would likely require more air than one person could carry, unless I did something very clever with rebreathers and chemicals in my suit. Might be able to make a tidy profit on the deal - moon rocks are worth something like $1 million/half a pound. However, I can think of otherpossibilities an easier flight away..
Hmm, without the normal protections of the ring, even going at highways speeds at a hundred feet up is going to be a pretty harrowing experience.
A note regarding the luggage problem with the flight ring: You know, you’d be saving a lot of money on airfare, especially if you were willing to change transoceanic travel. It might be economical to pack a few expensive items (suit, laptop, etc) in a large backpack, and simply buy cheaper bits of clothing and other necessities at your destination. Round-trip airfare to Istanbul is about $1,500, for example - if I can fly for free, but need to drop a couple hundred bucks on clothing for a week-long trip, I call that a bargain.