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Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 07:09:50 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

Also forgor to make a post about the other day when I was working with this charity thing where kids get scholarships for writing about their “Aviation heroes” or something and I thought of these two amazing, wonderful, inspirational champions that I look up to every day.
Both have literally brought me to tears. (Sad for beebo, laughter for the king)
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- Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 07:12:18 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
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  to date one of my top 3 fave videos to laugh at
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- GabeLakmann (gabelakmann@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 13:38:33 JST GabeLakmann
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  When it comes to aviation heroes I think of Charles Lindbergh, Hanna Reitsch, Erich Hartmann, Hans-Joachim Marseille, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, and the first 100 or so pilots from this list:
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_flying_aces
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    Fighter aces in World War II had tremendously varying kill scores, affected as they were by many factors: the pilot's skill level, the performance of the airplane the pilot flew and the planes they flew against, how long they served, their opportunity to meet the enemy in the air (Allied to Axis disproportion), whether they were the formation's leader or a wingman, the standards their air service brought to the awarding of victory credits, et cetera. Towards the end of the war, the Axis powers had largely exhausted their supply of skilled pilots and the replacements did not have as much opportunity to gain enough experience to be successful. Additionally, national policies differed; German, Italian, and Japanese pilots tended to return to the cockpit over and over again until they were killed.It is not clear what impact each nation's rules for score crediting have on the counts listed below. Germans credited a shared victory to only one pilot, while the French credited full victory to all participants. British, Finnish and US air forces credited fractional shares of aerial victories, resulting in fractions, such as 11½, which might be for...
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  @GabeLakmann I posted some guy’s thing a while back, his dad worked with that german girl on the test program….didn’t have much good to say about her. Seemed very, VERY realistic given what I’ve experienced with modern chick pilots. Career striver, petulant, derailed programs because she couldn’t admit her own mistakes so she blamed the plane….
  
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