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A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
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Kites with motors is what the WW1 men were flying. One bullet in the gas tank and you went down in flames..it took a lot of courage to go up in one of those planes. No armor protection, no self sealing gas tanks and NO PARACHUTES to get out alive.
Richthofen was credited with 80, Fonck was no 2 with 75 credited, but by his own count 137. All in all Fonck was probably the best of them all. The reason is that he flew from 1915 through 1918 when the average life span of a pilot on the Western Front was 2 weeks. Also he rarely ever got any bullet holes in his plane, which means he was a very careful hunter who did not make mistakes.
"I put my bullets into the target as if I placed them there by hand."..Rene Fonck
When are successful in air combat it really does not matter what your score is. You are just good at what you do...you have a knack for killing.
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