29.10.2010, 06:08
Yes it was Mick...
Ball died too soon to have done anything like that...the SE 5a had only been in service with No.56 Squadron (Ball's Squadron) a month when he was killed in an collision with Lothar v. Richtofen in 1917.
Mick was a test pilot at heart....there is an account of Mannock doing loops in a DH 2 way below the safety deck for that plane...
Ball died too soon to have done anything like that...the SE 5a had only been in service with No.56 Squadron (Ball's Squadron) a month when he was killed in an collision with Lothar v. Richtofen in 1917.
Mick was a test pilot at heart....there is an account of Mannock doing loops in a DH 2 way below the safety deck for that plane...