Sorry not to rain on anyones parade, but highest total of kills is just a function of time.
If you spend enough time online, you will get alot of kills.
Now kills/sortie, or figuring a kills/time stat might be more appropriate.
And then there is also the time honored tradition of kills/death. For instance Thunder, you brought up the fact that Bane has 30 more kills than Hangtime, well thats true. But he also died 122 times more, for a total of almost twice as many deaths. Just from stats, I would rate Hangtime much higher than Bane. (nothing personal to any of the pilots involved).
But just simply looking at total kills is plain wrong.
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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure
[This message has been edited by Vermillion (edited 02-11-2001).]