Flyver-es

Douglas Bader, britisk flyver-es med ben-proteser.

Flyver-es eller jager-es er en militær pilot, som er krediteret nedskydning af flere fjendtlige fly under luftkamp.

Begrebet opstod under første verdenskrig, hvor den tyske pilot Manfred von Richthofen (Den Røde Baron) nedskød 80 fjendtlige fly.

Den pilot, som er krediteret for flest nedskydninger, er den tyske jagerpilot Eric Hartmann, som under anden verdenskrig nedskød 352 fjendtlige fly.

Det antal luftsejre, som kvalificerer til benævnelsen ”es”, varierer, men sædvanligvis skal antallet være mindst fem nedskydninger.

Danske flyver-esser

Anden verdenskrig

Engelske flyver-esser

Anden verdenskrig


Tyske flyver-esser

Første verdenskrig

Anden verdenskrig

Medier brugt på denne side

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This image is a digitized photograph of Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader. The image was taken from http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/online-exhibitions/douglas-bader/douglas-bader-hurricane-242-squadron.cfm and the caption reads: "Douglas Bader stands on the wing of his Hurricane, as Commanding Officer of No.242 Squadron.". Douglas Barden was posted to command No. 242 Squadron RAF as Squadron Leader on 28 June 1940; forced to bail out over German-occupied France, he was captured and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of war. Therefore, he didn't do any more flight missions for RAF, and so the photograph is more than 50 years old, being now in the public domain.