12/30/2020 of best pilot of all time

[Johannes Reifsteck]

Who is the best pilot of all time? Before you yell at me like I know you will, I just took my info off of a Wikipedia of pilots with the most confirmed kills or if I thought the person had a big impact on aviation (yes I know it's not always accurate but I wasn't looking to do a lot of research tbh).

 

[Lancelot]

Obvious answer^

 

[Johannes Reifsteck]

Obvious answer^

other than the fact that his teeth are messed up I'd say he was pretty good in that movie, I also can't wait to watch the new one.

 

[Who Me]

I would have to say that the WW I guys were better, they were making it up as they went along and had some pretty sketchy planes to fly. Along with that though I would have to say kills is a bad metric to compare them. Especially in WW I if you survived the first few months and learned, you were able to fly against pilots that were barely qualified to fly so they were able to stack up the kills with ease.

 

[diamond]

Charles Kingsford smith

 

[Bright Dorne]

Amateurs.

 

[legoboyvdlp]

I'd go for Boelcke:

He was one of the first to set out air combat tactics and certainly one of the leading early military pilots.