Before you start banging away at your key board, trying to prove me wrong, please read my entire post first! I am talking about the GM Eastern division made FM-2 Wildcat. The one powered by the 9 cylinder Wright Cyclone engine, stripped down, with four .50 caliber machine guns, much lighter and faster. Now, we are not talking about the sheer number of planes shot down by the particular plane, we are talking kill to loss ratio. In other words, the number of planes shot down, to the number lost in air to air combat. The higher the first number, the better. F4U Corsair, 11.3-1, F6F Hellcat, 19.1-1, FM-2, 32.4-1. Now, to put this into perspective, here are the number shot down, to number lost in exact numbers. Corsair, 2,140-189, Hellcat, 5,163-270, FM-2, 422-13. There were exactly five FM-2 aces, that is all, so not as impressive as the Hellcat, with 305 pilots making ace status. On a side note, all the FM-2 pilots who became aces, did so during the Layte Gulf invasion, October 24-26, 1944. This was during the famous Taffy 3 fight. The P-51 Mustang had a 19-1 ratio.