Some of my favorite (though I don't know their value for tips):
Samurai. Just astounding.
The Blonde Knight
Stuka Pilot
Chickenhawk
Warthog
Strike Eagle
ED Forums; and of course
Vipers as above.
Re Rudel the Stuka pilot from Wiki: "Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, one Soviet battleship, 70 landing craft, 4 armored trains, several bridges and nine aircraft which he shot down."
So basically, the guy took out an entire army. His mechanic was no slouch, either. When he saw Rudel shot down, he ran 9 miles into enemy territory and carried him back to base. Take note Paul lol.
Re Saburo Sakai from Wiki: "Although in agony from his injuries (he had a serious head wound from a bullet that had passed through his skull and the right side of his brain, leaving the entire left side of his body paralyzed, and was left blind in one eye), Sakai managed to fly his damaged Zero in a four-hour, 47-minute flight over 560 nmi (1,040 km; 640 mi) back to his base on Rabaul, using familiar volcanic peaks as guides. When he attempted to land at the airfield he nearly crashed into a line of parked Zeros but, after circling four times, and with the fuel gauge reading empty, he put his Zero down on the runway on his second attempt. After landing, he insisted on making his mission report to his superior officer before collapsing."