Aces

[cheddar cheese]

thanks lanc 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

you hear much of that these days..............

 

[cheddar cheese]

sure you do...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

my mistake, i meant to say you DON'T hear much of that these days..............

 

[cheddar cheese]

these days? you never heard much of it in those days anyways, getting back on topic, aces then......well i have no idea what to put so that puts my plans on hold 8)

 

[Oleanna]

well, its all very well having good planes, but you ned the expertise and the balls to be able to fly it in the first place. I recall reading an argument along these lines a bit earlier on in the forum....no matter how quick the plane, how heavily armed etc, if the piliot is crap then he is going to get blown out of the big blue sky because he simply cannot fly for toffee. Ironically, it will probably be an ace in a pants plane that blows him out of the sky

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i wonder how WWI pilots would fare in WWII combat.....................

 

[cheddar cheese]

hmmm, interesting thought

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i think they could do quite well when they got used to the new aircraft..............

 

[plan_D]

They probably would since WW1 combat was similar to WW2 air combat in quite a lot of ways, the Red Baron made sure of that. Just the planes were quite different.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

you're right, the tactics didn't change much until the midwar years...............

 

[cheddar cheese]

i think most WW1 pilots would have been put in biplanes for WW2, just cos they would be more used to them 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i'm not sure, they could use their experiese in monoplanes too...............

 

[plan_D]

WW2 Biplanes would have handled quite a bit different from WW1 ones since most had a lot more powerful engines.

 

[cheddar cheese]

i'm not sure, they could use their experiese in monoplanes too...............

monoplanes are a lot less manoeverable than biplanes though, would have been quite an adaptation 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

just remember, many pilots had to change from biplanes to monoplanes with the introduction of the hurricane, they did alright...........

 

[plan_D]

Yes, and in any case their were monoplanes in World War 1 anyway.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

they were more on the german side though..................

 

[Lightning Guy]

There are several things to consider when discussing scores. The fact that the Germans and Japanese flew until they were wounded or dead has been mentioned. You also have to remember, and Gunther Rall pointed this out in an interview once, that to score a victory you had to see a plane! There were countless Allied pilots who when through the war without seeing a single enemy plane. Meanwhile, the German lucky enough to live into '44-'45 would see a couple thousand Allied planes every time he took off!

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i nkow which i would rather see................