Your Favourite Allied Pilot?

**gully_raker** · 08-29-2012 21:42

O.K. fellow Pilots I checked back through the Polls & there does not seem to have been a poll on this before.
So who are your 3 favourite Allied Pilots.
I will see if I am allowed to let you pick 3 out of the list but if not please vote for your favourite & list another 2 in your post.

Have at it folks!

I will do one for the Central Powers as well.

**gully_raker** · 08-29-2012 21:48

I will start the ball rolling!
1 McCudden
2 Mannock
3 Stan Dallas (Australian Ace)

**gully_raker** · 08-29-2012 22:19

Oh damn! I wanted to add Francesco Barracca for our Italian Pilots but I cant add another choice so if you want to vote for him just vote for "other" & I will add the totals of posts that mention him.

**MoonSylver** · 08-29-2012 22:25

Choosing just 3...hard work!

First 2 were pretty easy, I went with Albert Ball & Mick Mannock. Fierce, driven, complicated men, I find them highly interesting. #3 was hard, as I'm equally fond of several. Bishop, Guynemer, Fonk (there's something likeable about a guy so terminally UNlikeable!

), Rickenbacker. But in the end I settled on Raymond Collishaw, for a number of reasons, but if for no other, he lead a squadron called "The Black Flight" & named his plane "The Black Maria"...how bad is THAT!

**tuladin** · 08-29-2012 22:49

I picked lucky Eddie Rickenbacker as my #1, but I kinda like them all - the combination of all of these personalities - daring Albert Ball, haunted Mick Mannock, brash Rene Fonck, obsessed Frank Luke and the rest - make the study of the era endlessly enjoyable.

**Doug** · 08-29-2012 23:06

I picked Hawker he started the ball rolling for developing fighter tacticts. But there are also other that deserve a mention, well in fact all.

**alkis21** · 08-30-2012 00:38

I picked one and that was Rene Fonck, the top allied ace.

I would also go with Lanoe Hawker who was at one time the terror in the sky for the Central powers planes, and Stan Dallas because he was Australian!

**CappyTom** · 08-30-2012 02:48

I voted for Guynemer for being a true knight of the air.

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**steel_ratt** · 08-30-2012 07:44

Donald Roderick MacLaren DSO, MC & Bar, DFC

"Canadian World War I flying ace. He was credited with 54 victories and, after the war, helped found the Royal Canadian Air Force." Top scoring Ace who flew a Sopwith Camel.

...and not (yet) represented with an official WoG mini.

**diceslinger** · 08-30-2012 07:54

Rickenbacker, class act all the way!

**Coog** · 08-30-2012 09:49

Elliott Springs. I have repaints for his SE5a for when he was attached to Bishop's squadron and his Sopwith Camel of the U. S. 148th.

**brucewallace** · 08-30-2012 12:55

My other choice is James Norman Hall. Growing up just after WW2, and before books on that conflict began to hit the press, I read everything I could get my hands on about the Great War, but it wasn't until 1959 that I got to read "Falcons of France," and fell in love with the war in the air. So here's to you, James, may you always have the wind beneath your wings.

**redcoon2** · 08-30-2012 19:36

Wow...such fertile field with teeming fruit...will be short and sweet...Mick Mannock, Frank Luke and Raymond Collishaw.

**gully_raker** · 08-30-2012 20:46

Hi Folks! Just noticed some have only voted for 1 Pilot. You can vote for up to 3 as it is a multiple choice poll!

**tuladin** · 08-30-2012 21:30

I think that once you've submitted your vote there is no way to go back and vote some more.

**Nightbomber** · 08-31-2012 03:19

Ball, Rickenbacker and Luke, although it was a tough choice. Ball, above all, for his style of fighting that suits me well

. Luke for his samurai will of fight to the bitter end..., Rickenbacker... well, Fast Eddie and his unforgettable smile

- for his way of life

I just regret I do not know more about all of the guys, but read as much biographies as I could.

**Flying Officer Kyte** · 08-31-2012 03:20

I chose Ball for his tactics, Mannock for his single mindedness, and McCudden for his leadership.
Rob.

**Baldrick62** · 08-31-2012 04:01

Originally Posted by MoonSylver

Choosing just 3...hard work!

... Raymond Collishaw, for a number of reasons, but if for no other, he lead a squadron called "The Black Flight" & named his plane "The Black Maria"...how bad is THAT!

Actually, he led a flight called 'The Black Flight' in 10 Sqn RNAS, but it's still very cool.

**MoonSylver** · 08-31-2012 20:49

Originally Posted by Baldrick62

Actually, he led a flight called 'The Black Flight' in 10 Sqn RNAS, but it's still very cool.

Whoops. I misread his posting to the #10 Naval Squadron, when checking to make sure I had my facts straight, & totally overlooked the further distinction of "B Flight".

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