Posted on 09/21/2016 8:36:24 AM PDT by C19fan
“Baron was seriously injured, and on another mission died in the Tri-plane” Von Richtofen was a badly over used and tired pilot toward the end. He made a classic mistake he never would have earlier by chasing after a target and got too low and was shot down by ground fire.
The P-38 was a very good platform and did it’s job very well..............
Fokker Triplane was an ace eliminator for the Germans.
Manfred Richtofen, Werner Voss, Kurt Wolfe, Heinrich Gontermann, almost Lothar Richtofen all were drawn to its maneuverability but its lack of speed and fragility killed them.
Could be, but the book has yet to mention that aircraft. Maybe the author didn't dig deep enough.
BTW, the book's jaw-breaking full title I Am My Brother's Keeper: American Volunteers in Israels War for Independence 1947-1949
Don’t forget the F-104 starfighter, aka the lawn dart. A missile with a man in it heh.
Yeah I think of any American built airframe it was a Brewster Buffalo in service with the Finns that has the highest number of kills for one give airframe
It may be a Finn Brewster Buffalo that has the highest number of kills, period ...for anyone given aircraft..( think about 60 kills) from two different Finn aces using because there was only a limited number available
Verses some Germans with higher number of kills but they flew multiple different aircraft in their career to accumulate those
It was dangerous but ahead of it’s time. The much beloved A10 used the same concept of a plane built around a gun.
Worst: F7U-1 Cutlass (which despite similarity of name only shared the same shape)
Housewives may have ended up with new cookware made from F-84’s......
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