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Some more fun - when MvR downed Hawker over the German side, he was flying a two gun 160 hp machine against a one gun 100 hp DH2. How would MvR have gone if he was say, he caught flying a one gun 100hp Fokker EIII over British lines by say Hawker on a prototype 150 hp two gun SE5?
Cheers Russ
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Hi, Russ,
Who knows? But if MvR was fixated on distant targets and never saw the attacking planes in the first place, just as Hawker didn't on 28 Nov 1916, it might go as badly for MvR as it did for Hawker. Much is made about Hawker's machine being of inferior performance but if you never see the other guy coming to attack it doesn't matter what you are flying. It's to Hawker's great credit that he evaded MvR for as long as he did after
Jasta 2's initial dive.