Bill Lucy's Skua victories and the limits of paper performance

Bill Lucy became the Royal Navy's first ace of the war by gaining his first five victories in a Blackburn Skua over Norway. That record does not make the Skua a superior fighter on paper. It shows how tactics, fighter control, pilot skill, and a measure of luck affect what an aircraft can accomplish in combat. Equipment quality and quantity still matter, but so does the quality of the system using them.