It was the pursuit ship flown by Dupre, the famous French ace.
Saburō Sakai, the famous Japanese ace, relates their reaction to the Thach Weave when they encountered Guadalcanal Wildcats using it:
You are a famous ace,nicht wahr?
Lieutenant Karl "Quax" Schnörrer (22 March 1919 - 25 September 1979) was a famous "ace" of the German Luftwaffe during World War II.
Tom was ambitious, and would of course be delighted to prove his metal when opposed by a famous "ace;" whose name and reputation had long made him a terror to the French and British airmen.
Babyface had a pretty remarkable background for a twenty-year-old, and not just medically: he was, for one thing, America's most famous ace of World War III.
Stan Dallas was not the only famous ace Lewis befriended; Mick Mannock invoked the rule of opposites to nickname the quiet Lewis as "Noisy".
The Squadron boasted the most famous ace in the RFC-Captain Albert Ball, a fighter pilot with 30 air victories.
Each meant that a famous German ace had flown with that propeller or that emblem and had met his death before G-8 and his Battle Aces.
It stars Madge Kennedy as a young woman who pretends to the be the fiancée of a famous flying ace during the First World War.