His battle victories made Wing Cdr Farnes an ace, a term taken to mean any fighter pilot credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft. His tally was six enemy aircraft destroyed ...
One of Ukraine's most celebrated fighter pilots and two other airmen have been killed in a mid-air crash. Andrii Pilshchykov won fame taking part in dogfights over Kyiv during the early phase of ...
THE medals and logbooks of a prolific World War One fighter ace have sold for £21,000. Captain Percy “Pip” Clayson terrorised German enemy aircraft in the summer of 1918, clocking up 29 ...
the flying ace. In the summer of 1918, an RAF pilot flying one of these, an SE5A fighter, shot down ten enemy aircraft in the space of just thirteen days, now that’s a kill rate that compares ...