The Fighter Ace Poster Boy!!!

[Jack Cook]

Capt Dallas A. Clinger 16th FS 51st FG China 1942

[Mudge]

That is the HERO SHOT of all Hero Shots

Mudge the amused

[RickH]

I've got to disagree, the poster boy of fighter pilots is the overhead shot of steely eyed, Col Don Blakeslee sitting in his Mustang looking up at the camera.

The quintessential fighter pilot !

http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/URG/blakesle.html

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[Jack Cook]

Anyone who looks likes this and carves totem poles with a chainsaw in the man

[Dan K]

Capt. Clinger definitely looks like the guy mothers warn their daughters about!

[Sean Curtiss]

Capt. Clinger definitely looks like the guy mothers warn their daughters about!

That's for sure!!!

Capt Dallas A. Clinger 16th FS 51st FG China 1942

Really, really great image!

[SPANNERmkV]

Straight out of Central Casting!!!

"Who's the best Fighter Pilot alive?"
You're looking at him!
(PS...God Bless Gordo Cooper)

[Sean Curtiss]

(PS...God Bless Gordo Cooper)

And ALL the other 6 heroes (including number 8, Chuck Yeager)!

[Jack Cook]

including number 8, Chuck Yeager

Oh cr*p not him again

[RickH]

And I was just going to add Boyington, Jack !

[Jack Cook]

And I was just going to add Boyington

was is the word we'll focus on

[mustangdriver]

Now these are fighter pilots. Sorry someone had to do it.

[Jack Cook]

Jack Ridley was a bomber pilot.
Of the others Bud Anderson rates A-1!!!!!!!

[mustangdriver]

As well as Boyington one of America's highest scoring aces, and Yeager the first pilot to break the soundbarrier in level flight, and the most famous living pilot.

[Jack Cook]

aces

or is it *ss

Yeager the first pilot to break the soundbarrier in level flight, and the most famous living pilot.

Was this a Capricorne One type deal I have to believe that we can come up with a more famous living pilot somewhere. Or at least more gracious