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

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