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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980
Quality of the plane in addition to pilot skill matters.
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Chuck Yeager Said that a good pilot in a bad plane can beat a bad pilot in a good plane.
I read the the combat history of the Japanese Ace Saburo Sakai, He fought 6 F6F's off Iwo, despite being outnumbered, flying an outdated Zero and blind in one eye, he damaged one and managed to return to base without a single bullet hole in his plane!
Remember early in the war Japan had a large force of combat experienced pilots, but by the end of the war, most of the pilots were lucky to have more than a dozen flight hours.