What's An 'Ace' Pilot?

In this episode we're talking about "Ace" Pilots and what that actually means.

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[steriskyline]

i absolutely love the irony of our man leaning on an oerlikon while talking about aces, never change man, i love you.

[wfoj]

Approx 6:45 to 7:15 I lost audio. Great topic. I wonder -Did any Single Mount 20 mm Oerlikon gunners on a ship get 5 shootdowns in their career?

[exovian]

There's a mistake when discussing Muhammad Alam; Ryan says he was Indian. He was Pakistani, flying against India.

[adamdubin]

Pappy Boyington, 26 aircraft destroyed in Dogfight before he himself was shot down and taken prisoner. Man was as rough as they came and an excellent Marine.

[supercrew]

Robin Olds was my favorite ace in ww2 and Viet Nam and the only pilot to shoot down an enemy plane in the glide mode. He lost engines when switching fuel tanks in his P38 Lightning.

[MyklEnigma]

What about The Red Baron & his battles against snoopy ? 🤭

[davelewandoski]

So many great Aces from WWll. Pappy Boyington, Richard Bong, Tommy McGuire, Gabby Gabriski, Robert S Johnson, Don Gentile, David McCambell, Kille Kane, Joe Foss.

[cleverusername]

Favorite Ace would have to be Herr Manfred von Richthofen aka the Red Baron.

[Johnc]

Audio lost 6:45 to 7:15. I'm not sure why this happened :(

[Vanilla]

As a Columbus native, Eddie Rickenbacker has to be among my favorite aviators. John "Jimmy" Thatch gets my top spot for WWII aces.

[seatedliberty]

My favorite Ace pilot is Dick Bong- when you have a name like that and absolutely no one dares make fun of you, you know he's 100% bad ass.

[StuSaville]

Douglas Bader would have to be my favorite ace. Managed to score 22 kills despite having lost both legs in an air crash before the war. Became a POW after a collision with a BF-109 but made so many escape attempts that the frustrated Germans locked him up in Colditz castle and threatened to confiscate both his prosthetic legs.

[jdst]

Robin Olds is my Favorite,
Also we had a few Vietnam guys achieve ace status.

[albertoswald]

My father was 10 1/2 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was big into airplanes and had a scrapbook on all sorts of planes. Well, 1980 comes. I'm 9 and we're in a furniture store shopping for a living room set. Mom is exploring and I'm with Dad. He gets talking with the salesman. It turns he had flown a P-51 during the war and had 4 confirmed kills! He was still mad 35 years after that he couldn't get one more!!! Needless to say, Dad was sitting on the edge of his seat pumping this guy with questions and acting like a big kid. I'm next to him thinking, "Who are you and what did you do to my father?"😁
It's nice to see your parents sometimes not being parents and just being themselves!!

[MrDDiRusso]

During the Vietnam war, a B 52 bomber shot down 5 North Vietnamese MIG's with its tail mounted Vulcan cannon.

[ImpendingJoker]

I do hate to tell y'all this Ryan, but all that footage of the "Ghost of Kyiv" are all from the popular combat simulator called Digital Combat Simulator: World or DCS:World, by Eagle Dynamics. This has already been debunked, and if you look at the clouds in the video you can easily tell it uses the same cloud models from the DCS v2.7 update. This has already been confirmed by several news outlets, and many MANY DCS users, including myself. The video has just had some filters applied and then cropped to make it look like it was shot on a cell phone. The MiG-35 is pretty much an updated MiG-29 with fly-by-wire flight controls, and thrust vectoring nozzles.

[jeffersonchau]

Ummm 6:42 the audio cuts out and ends at 7:14. Might wanna fix that

[aw]

Josef František, a Czech volunteer who flew a Hawker Hurricane during Battle of Britain, credited with 17 kills in four weeks.

[klsc]

For Aces, I will go with 3. Majors Richard I. Bong (40) and Thomas McGuire (38) for the United States. For WWII Germany, the Blonde Knight, Erich Hartmann (352).

[hughmarloweverest]

During WW2 a Navy pilot, David McCampbell shot down nine in a single engagement. Look it up.