"Garrison Hilliard" wrote in message ...
Cub Driver wrote:

Has there ever been any research into the top scoring individual aircraft
(not type) of any era? Presume it would be WWII.

Might be a Brewster Buffalo of the Finnish Air Force. Hasse Wind was
credited with 22 victories flying BW-393, and other pilots with 16 on
the same aircraft, for a total of 38.

Hardly... try Galland's BF109, or any of those Japanese guy's Zekes, Franks, and Oscars. Hell, even Bong's p-38 beats out that Brewster Buffalo (which, despite your fetish for it, still sucked as a fighter when pitted against contemporary fighters - which "Rata's", "Mosca's", and PO's weren't).

The gentleman is right. One Luftwaffe ace, Emil Lang, shot down 18
aircraft in one day alone in his aircraft. I'm sure his total in that
aircraft far exceeds the 38 mentioned above.

I think that the Tempest pilots also shot down large numbers of
aircraft too in a single day, but do V-1 robot bombs count? One source
claimed that a Tempest pilot shot down 21 robots in his aircraft.

Ariennya Romani