I'm now going to turn to looking at the planes we fly. To start with, we are looking how often planes are featured in a plane set for a frame. I found the result a bit surprising.
| Plane | Frame Count |
| Ju_88A-4 | 197
|
| B-25C | 163
|
| Fw_190A-5 | 145
|
| Bf_109G-6 | 142
|
| Bf_110C-4b | 124
|
| Bf_109G-2 | 114
|
| Bf_109F-4 | 114
|
| Bf_109E-4 | 108
|
| Ju_87D-3 | 103
|
| … | …
|
| Jagdpanther | 2
|
| Tiger_II | 1
|
| RV-8 | 1
|
| LVTA4 | 1
|
| LVTA2 | 1
|
It took me a bit to figure out why German planes seem to be featured so much more than any other planes. The best I can come up with is that the Germans used a limited plane set that was flown in all their theaters of operation, while other nationality planes were more specific to a theater of operation. British planes on the western front. Early war American planes are hand me downs to Eastern Front, China-Burma-India, and North Africa. US Naval and Japanese planes for PTO. So a common plane set used in multiple theaters is going to show up as the most featured planes in FSO.
I still get a chuckle when I see HiTech's RV-8 pop up in our stats. I've tried hunting for the plane number for it a few times, but haven't found it yet.
