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Has there ever been any research into the top scoring individual aircraft
(not type) of any era? Presume it would be WWII. AL From: "old hoodoo" It would seem that the only confirmed example offered is the Brewster flown by Hans Wind which was Finnish Air Force serial number BW 393 which in my source is credited with 41 victories. Another Brewster, BW 364 is credited with 36. It is possible that one of the German aces has more kills scored on an indvidual aircraft but I have yet to see any research confirming confirmed claims against a specific werke number. Didn't one of the books about Hartmann include excerpts from some of his logbooks? Might be a good place to find real data. John Dupre' |
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Are you suggesting that Galland flew the _same_ 109 throughout the war?
That would have been difficult, since he was shot up and bailed out atleast half a dozen times. I doubt the luftwaffe bothered to restore the airplanes he permitted to land by themselves. vince norris |
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Has there ever been any research into the top scoring individual aircraft
(not type) of any era? Presume it would be WWII. It would seem that the only confirmed example offered is the Brewster flown by Hans Wind which was Finnish Air Force serial number BW 393 which in my source is credited with 41 victories. Another Brewster, BW 364 is credited with 36. Quote from my post at Dan Ford's Brewster-site: Brewster (Finnish serial) - number of aerial victories - total hours flown - pilots and their personal score with the airframe BW-352 - 18 kills BW-353 - 20 - 562h 45 min BW-357 - 16 - 802h BW-364 - 36 - Ilmari Juutilainen 28 BW-366 - 23 - Jorma Karhunen 14 BW-384 - 18 - 729h 05 min BW-393 - 41 - Eino Luukkanen 7, Hans Wind 26 jok |
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