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by hassy 5745 days ago
In addition to the tenuous link between the two activities, the 10 to 1 ratio is almost certainly untrue.

Details here (in the main text and in cited materials):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-86_Sabre#Korean_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG-15#Operational_history

Isolating success in dogfights to flight controls seems like a gross oversimplification. I would like to see the original source for this (attributed to Boyd in the article).

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I love how you're being downvoted for pointing to more realistic numbers.