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Aces kills

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Wildfowler

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Today I used the "Aces Dossier" search facility on OFF.

I was interested to see that many of the top Aces seemed mainly to have built up their kills shooting down two seaters. This applies to all sides.

Has anyone else noticed this?
 
From what I've read so far, the "Bloody April" for example was a battle of two-seaters being attacked, and protected, by fighters. And reconnaissance planes and bombers were all mainly 2seats - so, it makes sense.
 
Yes, it's true. Many of the early aces logged a ton of 2-seater kills.... which makes you sort-of wonder... were they really aces... ;)

MvR was grazed in the side of the head by the bullet from an Fe2b. So no matter what, it was a life risking thing to attack them, especially when they were in a group.

OvS
 
Well since it was brought up, I have a question. Will we see more two seater action in P3? As in more two seaters in the skies?

-Rooster
 
It shouldn't be surprising, really. The romantic notion of the fighter (scout) pilot is the duel against another fighter. The reality is that their primary target is enemy strategic aircraft...two-seaters, in WWI parlance. The only time they should engage other single-seaters is when they're on escort missions or in self-defense against escorting enemy scouts.
 
That whole thing about the Nieuport 17 vs. Fokker Triplane, might've happened occasionaly. As well as the mass formations, "Looking for Trouble", as spoken by an actual WWI pilot ( click on Credits, and just Listen)
But I should think that most activity INVOLVED 2 seaters

MvR - had a tremendous amount of air victorys over British Bombers, mainly because they flew without Escort Then. They believed there was safety in numbers, them at 75mph, and him at 120mph

They Learned about the need of escorts, the Hard Way :kilroy:
 
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