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Major General
It may, but some other criteria also open up cans of worms.
Using a score board (for example) may favor early aircraft over later ones in a 6 year war. Later ones has less opportunity to post scores.
Early ones may have totally ineffective in original job in the last year/s of the war.
Greatest and Best may not be the same thing. Or highest scoring and best.
Some planes were definitely better than others. But it takes a very careful look at the figures to figure out the actual difference. For instance the perennial Spitire vs Hurricane in the BoB debate. The Spitfire shot down more German planes on average but since there were many more Hurricanes the Hurricanes shot down more in total. New pilots posted to squadrons survived longer in Spitfires than in Hurricanes on average, plenty of new Spitfire pilots were shot down on their first few missions and the difference was only few days (less than a week).
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