Who Was The Best Fighter Pilot Ever ?

[Safriz]

It was me.....
I was the best pilot in the world........then i woke up....

 

[epinephrine]

i think air marshal nur khan was the best pilot and commander.we may never find a person of his caliber and vision ever again in our armed forces

 

[Windjammer]

I'm not familiar with pilot Azam. Not to take anything away from him, but the "top gun" certificate means he had the best strafing scores in class 61-G at Luke. There are 12 classes per year, and each class would have a strafe top gun guy. It is an award handed out to each graduating class.

Squadrons will typically rank their pilots in some form each month, so in a given month, Joe Bagadonuts would be top gun, then another guy would take it next month. It's simply a way to keep pilots fired up and competitive.

As I mentioned before, I don't think there is a way to quantify this. Pilot Azam might be the Red Baron reincarnated... hard to say! I'm sure he was an extremely talented guy.

Just for record, while on deputation, he was credited with shooting down three Israeli aircraft during the six day war including a Mirage-3, while flying in a Hunter.

 

[500]

Just for record, while on deputation, he was credited with shooting down three Israeli aircraft during the six day war including a Mirage-3, while flying in a Hunter.

That Mirage was on bombing mission in Iraq, overloaded with fuel and bombs.

 

[scholseys]

Tom Cruise

 

[SQ8]

That Mirage was on bombing mission in Iraq, overloaded with fuel and bombs.

He could jettison them and get out..
thats like saying a bigger and faster guy got beaten up because he decided to hold onto his duffel bag during the fight.
And if he did not jettison those in the engagement then he was a fool who was asking to be killed.

 

[Truong Sa]

I nominate for Pham Tuan, a Vietnamese.
He was the first Fighter Pilot shot down B52 when he flew interceptor missions in a MiG-21 on December 27, 1972 in the sky of Yen Bai province, Vietnam...
He became the first Asian in space when he flew aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut...
He was awarded the title Hero of Vietnam and Hero of the Soviet Union...

He was luckier than the other pilots because they did not have any B52 to shot?

 

[Windjammer]

That Mirage was on bombing mission in Iraq, overloaded with fuel and bombs.

Actually the Mirages were escorting a formation of four Vautours bombers, one of which flown by Captain Golan also fell victim to the PAF pilot. After seeing his leader, Capt. Gideon Dror getting shot down, the pilot of the second Mirage disengaged and left the battle arena.

 

[SQ8]

I nominate for Pham Tuan, a Vietnamese.
He was the first Fighter Pilot shot down B52 when he flew interceptor missions in a MiG-21 on December 27, 1972 in the sky of Yen Bai province, Vietnam...
He became the first Asian in space when he flew aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut...
He was awarded the title Hero of Vietnam and Hero of the Soviet Union...

He was luckier than the other pilots because they did not have any B52 to shot?

Shooting a lumbering bomber is not much of an achievement.
There are other Vietnamese aces who played havoc with F-105 flights.

 

[fd24]

WJ or Santro or anyone - any info on M.Mahmood Alam

 

[SQ8]

WJ or Santro or anyone - any info on M.Mahmood Alam

Any info is available all over.. just have to glean out what is fact and what is fiction.

 

[fd24]

Any info is available all over.. just have to glean out what is fact and what is fiction.

Spoke to a family friend last night and all he kept saying was that this guy was a legend - but as you say its difficult to decipher fact from fiction

 

[Truong Sa]

Shooting a lumbering bomber is not much of an achievement.
There are other Vietnamese aces who played havoc with F-105 flights.

No friend, the B52 has a lot of F4 fighters fly to protect
It is very difficult to fly access B52
It is similar to an aircraft carrier is protected dense ...

 

[Windjammer]

Here is an article from John Fricker's, Battle for Pakistan.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/military-aviation/39642-thirty-seconds-sargodha.html

 

[500]

He could jettison them and get out..
thats like saying a bigger and faster guy got beaten up because he decided to hold onto his duffel bag during the fight.
And if he did not jettison those in the engagement then he was a fool who was asking to be killed.

Contrary to movies most of the dogfights are very short, hit and run, you simply dont have a time for jetissoning. And also they were loaded with fuel which cant be jetissoned. What basically happaned is that low flying loaded with fuel and bombs Israeli jets were ambushed from above by Iraqi fighters. But even in this situation Israelis managed to shoot Iragi fighter and most of the jets escaped.