List of aviators who became ace in a day

A Bristol F2B crew – Canadian pilot Captain Alfred Atkey and English observer Lieutenant Charles Gass – became "ace in a day" twice in the same week.

[3] The first aviators to ever achieve "ace in a day" were pilot Julius Arigi and observer/gunner Johann Lasi of the Austro-Hungarian air force, on 22 August 1916, when they downed five Italian planes.

[4] The first single pilot (as opposed to double aviators, as is the case with the previously mentioned Arigi and Lasi) was World War I German flying ace Fritz Otto Bernert.

During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Muhammad Mahmood Alam of Pakistan Air Force downed five aircraft in a single sortie on 7 September 1965 all in less than a minute to establish an aerial record.

Voroshylov had shot down two Russian cruise missiles the day prior, though this has yet to be officially verified by independent sources.