Which pilot crashed the most planes? :headscratch:
Most crashed but once. :old:
I need to look up some aces, this topic has a rather esoteric feeling.
Title: Re: What ww2 pilot would you be?
Post by: LilMak on May 21, 2015, 11:57:11 AM
Doolittle wrecked a bunch of planes.
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Post by: JOACH1M on May 21, 2015, 11:59:54 AM
I like to think I flew like Marseille, but I sure don't shoot like it :/
Although somdedays I had great fun flying like Hartmann lol
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Post by: Skyyr on May 21, 2015, 12:10:38 PM
I would guess that I fly most like Hartmann, though my shooting technique is very similar to Marseille's.
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Marseille persisted, and created a unique self-training programme for himself, both physical and tactical, which resulted not just in outstanding situational awareness, marksmanship and confident control of the aircraft, but also in a unique attack tactic that preferred a high angle deflection shooting attack and shooting at the target's front from the side, instead of the common method of chasing an aircraft and shooting at it directly from behind.
Lol every good stick who knows something makes approaches and shoots as so.
Every good stick prefers to shoot the opponent in the front/cockpit, from the side? You should inform the community, I have an entire folder of screenshots of individuals confusing such shots with HO's. ;)
The majority of pilots prefer shots behind the 3/9 line and their flying supports it. Just a quick search of this forum will reveal that. Not that it matters either way - as long as the bullets hit the aircraft, that's all that counts. :cheers:
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Post by: Someguy63 on May 21, 2015, 01:56:42 PM
"who knows something"
I should've been more specific. Self-taught sticks could be good but yet be uninformed of this right?
Anyway what I wanted to get to is the fact that to me out sounded as if you were implying that this certain quality in skill was unique to your own self. It left me with a bitter taste in my mouth.
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Post by: glzsqd on May 21, 2015, 02:23:26 PM
I'm Porkins
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Post by: earl1937 on May 21, 2015, 02:27:58 PM
Not nesscarily the planes you like to fly.... Who would you be?
:airplane: Jimmie Stewart or Jasper C. Davis, both great bomber pilots in WW2!
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Post by: bustr on May 21, 2015, 02:32:18 PM
Iea Takihashi.
The day he was supposed to fly his A6m out and die, F6fs strafed his field wounding him on the ground. He spent the last four months of WW2 laying in a hospital bed.
I studied Iaido from him at his home in San Bruno CA during the late 1980's. At the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, he threw me into a hot spring bath full of German stewardess to try and cure me of being shy. Then sang Japanese love songs to them while holding my head between their....hmmmmmm to help me get over my shyness. He loved women as much as he loved sumi-e. He had a lot of female friends who loved his sumi-e.
Not bad for a fighter pilot.
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Post by: Skyyr on May 21, 2015, 02:33:57 PM
I should've been more specific. Self-taught sticks could be good but yet be uninformed of this right?
Anyway what I wanted to get to is the fact that to me out sounded as if you were implying that this certain quality in skill was unique to your own self. It left me with a bitter taste in my mouth.
If the statement was "my shooting technique is very similar to XYZ's," then by definition I'm stating that it's a skill someone else possesses. There's nothing in it that implies it's unique whatsoever.
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Post by: Someguy63 on May 21, 2015, 03:00:42 PM
If the statement was "my shooting technique is very similar to XYZ's," then by definition I'm stating that it's a skill someone else possesses. There's nothing in it that implies it's unique whatsoever.
It was that along with the quote that got me. And not because the single time the word "unique" is used in it but I just had a feeling.
Title: Re: What ww2 pilot would you be?
Post by: Skyyr on May 21, 2015, 03:07:25 PM
The word unique wasn't used to describe his shooting.
But instead his method. I didn't say his shooting.
You misunderstood me, sorry. I just was hoping when I mentioned the quote that you wouldn't think I said "you implied your shooting method was unique" because I see the word once in the quote.
I didn't want to give you the feeling that that quote on Marseille was misinterpreted by myself as your analyzation of a "unique" quality of you simply because I saw the word describe one of Marseille's tactics.
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Post by: mthrockmor on May 21, 2015, 03:21:10 PM
A German Butcher Bird pilot, who mostly flew in the Western front, ended the war alive with 50-80 kills. Very solid, though no where near the ubber sticks who wracked up 100+, 200+, etc. Bottom line, bring your "A" game or I will kill you every time.
boo
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Post by: waystin2 on May 21, 2015, 03:24:58 PM
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Post by: DmonSlyr on May 21, 2015, 06:43:19 PM
I'd like to say Pappy Boington but I know nothing of his style or tactics, only from what the TV show lead me to believe. He got 26 kills though and was a fine squadron leader. I could see that we might have a lot of same fighting characteristics.
The other is my grandfather. He shot down 2 190s as a gunner in a b26. He flew over 50 combat missions and was apart of the Thunderbird squadron. I'll post a really rad picture later.
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Post by: pipz on May 21, 2015, 06:47:28 PM
C'mon people, this thread isn't intended to go the route I wanted it.
The die is cast........ :old:
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Post by: Guppy35 on May 21, 2015, 10:41:38 PM
One of the things I collect are photos of WW2 fighter pilots. Most are unnamed and to me represent the majority of fighter pilots doing thier job, scared a lot of the time and wanting to get the war over and go home. I'd like to think I could have fit in well with those guys.
This is one of my favorite photos. At first look it's just another typical cockpit shot. But if you look closer, this guy looks really tired. The gear he is wearing and lack of Mae West suggests he's a 9th AF Jug pilot who has probably flown way too many ground attack sorties into the Flak and seen too many buddies go down to it.
Title: Re: What ww2 pilot would you be?
Post by: Chilli on May 22, 2015, 03:53:21 PM
Judging by my apparent lack of situation awareness and poor gunnery skills. I can probably say that I would not have even been let near the wash bucket of any WW2 aircraft, much less the pilot's seat.
:salute Much respect for all the veterans, with a very special place in my heart for those that wore the uniform during WW2.
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Post by: Zimme83 on May 22, 2015, 07:37:23 PM
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Post by: SkyRock on May 23, 2015, 06:56:26 PM
just call me Pappy... boyington that is..
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Post by: Obie303 on May 27, 2015, 11:26:05 AM
This guy... (http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff186/obie303/lloyd%20bridges_zpssto5foq4.jpg) (http://s237.photobucket.com/user/obie303/media/lloyd%20bridges_zpssto5foq4.jpg.html) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enf20PDuVh0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enf20PDuVh0)
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Post by: bangsbox on May 27, 2015, 01:53:28 PM
Dick Bong...because Dick Bong
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Post by: palef on May 27, 2015, 09:51:09 PM
The guy who spends 5 years flying around without seeing an enemy aircraft who then dies on VJ Day in the process of landing after his final sortie and crashing into an ambulance full of school children who have dysentery.
Title: Re: What ww2 pilot would you be?
Post by: Hetzer7 on May 28, 2015, 09:33:40 AM
this is on a hypothetical note. We all know that 99% of us can't amount to what they REALLY did
Well you just never know how a person is going to perform in a critical situation, but given the same training and circumstances I'm pretty sure the % would be a little bit higher. Just getting past the physical I think would be the biggest hurdle with the AH pilots :D
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Post by: Someguy63 on May 28, 2015, 09:39:59 AM
Well you just never know how a person is going to perform in a critical situation, but given the same training and circumstances I'm pretty sure the % would be a little bit higher. Just getting past the physical I think would be the biggest hurdle with the AH pilots :D
:rofl
Title: Re: What ww2 pilot would you be?
Post by: killnu on May 28, 2015, 05:17:34 PM
Otto Kittel
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Post by: guncrasher on May 28, 2015, 05:30:01 PM
Well you just never know how a person is going to perform in a critical situation, but given the same training and circumstances I'm pretty sure the % would be a little bit higher. Just getting past the physical I think would be the biggest hurdle with the AH pilots :D
think not having a bathroom within 20 steps is the biggers hurdle :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl.
semp
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Post by: Arlo on May 28, 2015, 05:41:24 PM
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Post by: amp on May 29, 2015, 08:30:40 AM
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Post by: Teaspoon on May 29, 2015, 11:38:16 AM
FAF pilot Captain Olli Puhakka
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Post by: BFOOT1 on May 29, 2015, 12:32:38 PM
Luftwaffe pilot Erich Rudorffer and his magnificent career or Battle of Britain pilot Brian Carbury, Peter Townsend or an American flying in the Battle of Britain.