Billy Drake, 93, a British fighter ace whose daring and skill made him one of the Royal Air Force’s most successful pilots of World War II, died Aug. 28, the Daily Telegraph of London reported. The cause and location of death could not be confirmed. Group Captain Drake was credited with 24.5 aerial kills — another pilot was given half of one kill — and he reportedly destroyed a dozen more enemy planes parked on the ground. He harbored an interest in flight since a boyhood ride in a flying circus biplane.