"Rules of Engagement – Eight Air Combat Maxims..." Topic

… the Red Baron Followed to Conquer the Skies.

"Germany's Red Baron, also known as Manfred Von Richthofen, wasn't a very good pilot — his flying instructors thought him a mediocre aviator at best. Nor was the 25-year-old native of Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) the fiercest warrior in the air — he often avoided taking risks preferring to prey on slower-flying observation planes.

Yet the Prussian aristocrat and one-time cavalry officer chalked up an astounding 80 air-to-air victories in two-and-a-half years – more than any other flaying ace of the First World War. In fact, Von Richthofen would become the greatest war hero of Germany and the most celebrated combat pilot in history.

The Baron himself credited his enviable success not just to his gifted marksmanship, but rather to a near slavish devotion to eight simple dogfighting maxims handed down to him by his own hero and mentor, Oswald Boelcke…"
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Armand

Variations of which are all still practiced today.

Even more simplified,
"Lose sight, lose fight"
"Always maneuver in relation to the bandit" (although the term hostile is mostly used today"
"Know when to trade energy for nose position"

Also useful for L.A. freeway driving.

As interesting as we feel fighter-to-fighter combat was, the Baron understood that keeping the enemy blind was more important and was the real reason in-being of the fighter aircraft.

McCudden also "picked on" two-seater observation planes. The greatest aces all did that. Also, two-seat planes far outnumbered single-seat pursuit planes.

Another mediocre or even poor pilot was Bishop. But he knew how to get "nose position" when going for the shot. A mediocre shot never shoots down many planes, no matter how good a pilot he may be otherwise….