28 Aug 07
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Originally posted by geniusI believe the top scoring German fighter ace of WW2 had something ugodly like 360 kills or so, but the Germans who had triple digit kills were shooting down a lot of VASTLY inferior and outdated Russian planes and poorly trained pilots on the Eastern front.
Why Chuck Yeager (with 17 kills) as opposed to one of the many German WWII aces with over 100 kills?
But Chuck Norris could just shoot them all down with his eyes.
28 Aug 07
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Originally posted by Sam The ShamTrue, that's why i didn't name any pilots as i didn't want to trawl through them all looking for ones who didn't fight on the Eastern Front. However, my point was that there are many pilots with more impressive tallys, which still holds. For instance, Douglas Bader, the British Legless One...
I believe the top scoring German fighter ace of WW2 had something ugodly like 360 kills or so, but the Germans who had triple digit kills were shooting down a lot of VASTLY inferior and outdated Russian planes and poorly trained pilots on the Eastern front.
But Chuck Norris could just shoot them all down with his eyes.
Also, Hartmann used tactics that often meant his prey didn't know he was there, let alone fight back. The actual plane they were flying was virtually immaterial.
Gotta love wiki 😉
29 Aug 07
Originally posted by cashthetrashThe guy that shot down Richthoffen was certainly lucky. He was a n00b.
Having great vision, reflex, and training is all great, but it takes a lot of luck too, I would imagine whoever was the luckiest on that particular day would be the best. I would take lucky over skill any day.
30 Aug 07
and now that i think about it... why yeager? why not richard bong? with 40 sumthin kills i think... iv heard stories of him getting his p-38 so close to the japs he could smell the fear leaking out of those wooden airplanes, he seems like a "better" fighter pilot... maybe not as a test pilot, but as a dogfighter