My favorite fixed wing airplane:
I have about 100 hours in various jets, mostly trainers and with an aggressor squadron when I was a "stash Ensign" at VA-42 in Virginia Beach, then VT-10 in Pensacola riding backseat in T-2's and A-4's during maintenance hops.
Up and away is great, but there is, to me, no better flying than down low in the weeds.
135kts at 25 feet in an H-60 made me happy. The A-10 is the only thing that would have made me happier.