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How many combat kills did Capt. Brown have again?
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Actually, this brings up an interesting point. There's varying degrees of reliability for 'anecdotal' evidence.
What do you consider the more reliable as to an aircraft's performance?
Combat reports, where we know nothing about relative energy states, speeds, or whether the enemy aircraft was already damaged?
Flight test reports (a la Eric Brown) which compare the various qualities of the aircraft?
I know which I would regardd as more reliable, and for that reason it makes no damn difference to me whether Brown shot down 500 aircraft, or none at all