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Old 17 November 1998, 09:27 AM   #1 (permalink)
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This one's kind of morbid. But anyone have an opinion on the most outstanding pilot error's of WW1?
 
Old 17 November 1998, 12:09 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Impossible to answer owing to (a) lack of sufficient data and (B) agreed-upon definitions. However, given the state of aeronautical knowledge in 1914, probably stall-spin accidents, which still kill pilots today.
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Old 17 November 1998, 02:05 PM   #3 (permalink)
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as an individual error of a particular pilot, richthofen violating a point of his own 'air combat operations manual': "one should never obstinately stay with an opponent which, through bad shooting or skilful turning, he has been unable to shoot down when the battle lasts until it is...on the other side and one alone is faced by a greater number of opponents.'
obviously, had richthofen broken off his long and hazardously lowlevel pursuit of may, he would have been out of the ground gunners' range and would have had a chance to elude or shoot down brown. but he had not and, 25 years and 352 days after his birth, the hightest-scoring fighter ace of the first world war was dead.

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Old 17 November 1998, 03:28 PM   #4 (permalink)
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How about E. Bohme?... mistake led to death of Boelcke. Or was the error on MvR, who may have precipitated it all? ...depends on who/what u believe.
 
Old 18 November 1998, 01:05 AM   #5 (permalink)
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How about the delivery pilot of one of the first Handley Page 0/400s who crossed the Channel and landed at a German aerodrome by mistake? I'll bet he had something to say to his navigator over the following months in POW camp!

(Correct me if I've got the plane wrong)
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Old 18 November 1998, 04:15 AM   #6 (permalink)
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How about Jean Navarre wreaking a Morane trying to shoot down a duck?
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Old 18 November 1998, 04:23 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Navarre also severely wounded his observer in the process. Navarre only suffered minor injuries.

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Old 18 November 1998, 08:32 AM   #8 (permalink)
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How about Carl Degelow injuring another German pilot by firing his machine guns in a exercise combat?

Rittmeister Prince Friedrich Karl von Preussen is also a good candidate. He started with his observer in an Albatros doubleseater for a combat mission. Both did not realise during the whole flight that one man of the fitter crew was still laying over the airframe of the aeroplane (to prevent a somersault during the start) and was airborne too. The fitter Josef Schmidt was lucky enough to survive the adventure.
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Old 18 November 1998, 08:35 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Does my furiously hitting the 'j' key while trying to unjam my guns in RBII count?????
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Old 18 November 1998, 08:56 AM   #10 (permalink)
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How about the British two-seater crew who apparently mistook MvR's triplane for a Sopwith triplane and never fired a shot as MvR closed in and shot them down.
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