Yes but he could it be flown on a car licence with the 5th wheel removed, and you couldn’t do a night out in a Tornado as you can’t stand up in one.
Hang on I’m getting these old favourites mixed up 
This old story has done the rounds a bit, moves around quite a bit too, remember when I 1st read it, it happened in Hull.
Anyway, the bit that always gets me, is how quick the pilot was to ‘over-ride the automatic self defense system which would launch a sidewinder at the hostile’…
2 things
1, if it takes that long to launch, then the pilot’s already dead.
2, The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a supersonic, heat-seeking, air-to-air missile carried by fighter aircraft - not much use at shooting ground targets really.
Oooh, we need the US Aircraft Carrier vs the lighthouse now, telling it to move out of the way 