On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 19:22:26 GMT, (The
Revolution Will Not Be Televised) wrote:

[Dan Ford actually]

For all the talk about Meteors shooting down V-1s, I was amused to see
that there was no Meteor V-1 "ace". (One pilot did manage to account
for four.)

Or, to look at it another way:

2,350 Spitfires of all models in RAF hands in the UK in June 1944, at
the beginning of the V-1 campaign, ended up claiming about 460 V-1s by
5th September, when the main V-1 campaign ended or about 0.2 V-1s per
Spitfire. The 19 Meteor Is available claimed 8.5 V-1s in the same
period, amounting to 0.44 V-1s per Meteor. Perhaps the Meteor was
then twice as effective as the Spitfire as an anti-V-1 platform.

This seems equally as invalid and unrepresentative approach as the one
you've adopted above as a yardstick of effectiveness.

Gavin Bailey

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