Anybody else addicted to Dogfights?

[s_wilwerding]

As a segue from the "How It's Made" thread, was thinking of my favorite Discovery show, and it's gotta be Dogfights. I can't even explain why - it's neat to hear from the people themselves, and the show really puts you in the cockpit.

Anybody else addicted?

[kach22i]

Is it still on Friday nights?

Dang, I've must of missed the last few.

[tabs]

The best Dogfight of ALL TIME was the German WW1 Ace Werner Voss with 48 kills against the British 56 Squadron Aces which had well over 250 Kills collectivily ( McCudden had 56 alone). For 15 minutes Voss held them off singlehandlily, by tossing and turning his Forker Triplane. He shreaded several of the British Planes so badly that the pilots were lucky to get back alive in them. Eventually a bullet must have hit Voss, for suddenly he was flying in a straight line, when one of the Brits finished him off.

The leading French Ace Rene Fonck, was another amazing flyer. Fonck was the second leading Ace of WW1 with 75 Kills. He claimed that his unofficail tally was 137. But the amazing thing was that Fonck flew through the WHOLE war without ever being shot down. He very rarely ever had a bullethole in his plane. That is truly phenomenal when the average lifespan of a Flyer on the Western Front was 2 weeks at times.

Eric Hartman with 352 Kills is the Highest scoring Ace EVER...some people have derided him as shooting down only Russians, which they think is akin to shooting Turkeys. However in one mission Hartman shot down 7 American P-51s.

Saburo Saki was the highest scoring Japanese Ace to survive the war with 63 Kills. He was severly wounded over Guadacanal in the summer or fall of 1942, and spent the rest of the war in Japan as a training instructor. The wounds he suffered blinded him in one eye, yet in 1945 he was one of the few Japanese pilots that was able to shoot down a B-29.

The highest scoring Japanese Ace scored 104 Kills mostly over Americans, and was killed in the Philiphines in 1944 while flying a Transport Plane to pick up some new Fighter Planes.

[scottmandue]

I have my DVR set up to record all episodes and I still catch myself watching them when they come on live anyway... so yes I have a problem.

[Drago]

and I thought this was going to somehow involve Michael Vick.

[Hawktel]

I think the WWII fight between the B17 bomber old 666, and 17! Zero's lasting 45 minutes was pretty neat. 2 CMH's were awarded for the fight.