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Originally Posted by RussGannon
Mig 77
As a student of dogfights - MvR only scored two 'certain' victories against SE5's. One on 30 Nov 17 (flying a DV) and the other on 24 Mar 18 - in the latter at head of 25 of his much vaunted JG 1 against 9 SE5's - his was the only success!!!! In both cases SE's were from 41 Sqn and in both cases they made claims in return. Claims I would not discount.
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Would that be because those planes were much faster and they could always choose to run away? Excatly like MvR could have done against Hawker DH2, but didnt. Also MvR triplane only adventage was turn perfomance, just like Hawker DH2.
Anyway point was that comparing plane HPs is not that good measure when talking about pilot skills. Or you would have to give much more credit to german pilots in late war as they were "outengined" (faster planes could disengage at will).