> At which point I must apologise for pulling the leg of a newish member.
> Some time back we had a thread about the "highest scoring triplane ace"
> courtesy I believe of Matt. He was asking for the highest soring Fokker
> Triplane ace, but never said so, so I suspected him of trickery and went
> researching.
Who, me?
> The highest scoring Fokker Dr.1 ace was Josef Jacobs (30) not MvR as the
> sneaky bugger probably expected some of us to say.
Who's sneaky? <Don't pay attention to my squinting eyes.>
> However the highest scoring Triplane (any type) ace was Robert (Bob)
> Little, an Australian of 8 RNAS who scored 35 of his 47 victories on
> Tripehounds (mostly "Blymph"). At the time of his death he was RNAS ace
> of aces, but was later overtaken by Collishaw of course, whose victories
> did not include as large a proportion on Tripes.
Hmm...When I mentioned this to Greg Van Wyngarden, he still thought
that Jacobs was the highest scoring triplane ace. I'm going to have
to check my references once again... ;-o
> Incidentally, I believe that Dallas may have had around 30 victories on
> Sopwith Tripelanes as well.
>
> There, now I feel as sneaky as Matt ;-)
Remember to squint!
> Remind us if you remember !
Hear, hear!
Matt
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Matthew Bittner WW1 Modeler, ecto subscriber, semi-new dad,
meba@cso.com PowerBuilder developer; Omaha, Nebraska
Disclaimer: opinions expressed by me are my responsibility only.
"some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't
they?" - the Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz
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