Now the situation for linux flight sim fans is much better. flightgear
is in Buster's repo. This is for just flying, but does it very well. Many planes and air stations are modelled, even some military jets, but no combat. Learning to fly with this is a challenge, but fun.
After installing you can find docs in
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/usr/share/games/flightgear
Also flightgears web page is worth checking https://www.flightgear.org/
If you just want to 'shoot down those bastards', there is now LAC Linux Air Combat https://askmisterwizard.com/2019/LinuxAirCombat/LinuxAirCombat.htm
When you crash your plane, game ends. Hours of joy already. Lot's of info on the web page, and links to many tutorial youtube-videos.
This too has some effort to be real sim, many WWII fighters to choose from, some flying chrateristics modelled for each plane. There is even one jet, but that is not allowed in multiplayer sessions

Installation is documented fine on the LAC page, here just some points.
The author says these are needed packages.
libfreeglut3
libSDL1.2_0
libSDL_mixer1.2_0
libmesaglu1
mesa
Depends what you have on your Debian installation, I had to install these
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g++
freeglut3-dev
libsdl1.2-dev
libsdl-mixer1.2-dev
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian is a good text for any Debian user, especially for novices. But this one is quite well bult, it makes one hidden (dot dir) and one regular directory to your home dir. Configurations are in .LAC, and the game-binary and libraries are in LAC.
I downloaded the installer to ~/Downloads, below is how I installed.
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cd /tmp
tar xvzf ~/Downloads/Lac07r92.tar.gz
cd Lac07r92/
make
make clean
make install
./install.sh
Last install scripts explains what it does.
LAC starts in quite low demanding mode, it was 480x400 if I remember right and coarse graphic. If you have a modern GPU, you can play run full screen with more detailed graphics.
EDIT:I always forget something. LAC author wrote, mumble is not required. but I could not it start, if mumble is not running.
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sudo apt install mumble