Yes. Difficult, and the aircraft must be at low level, but it has been done.
South Korea
The variables for this question are nearly infinite, however... ...if the plane is light enough ...if the plane is small enough ...if the weapon is of sufficient caliber ...if the shooter is of sufficient skill and has had sufficient training ...if the plane's altitude is within the maximum effective distance of the weapon ...it is possible, but not entirely probable that a plane can be shot down with a rifle.
the boys believe their plane was shot down by a fighter plane, since they are in the midst of World War II.
England during the 1st and 2nd world wars needed rapid fighter planes to shoot down the enemies bombers and to dual with the enemies fighter planes.
No. The F-15 eagle is the only fighter aircraft that is one the most difficult plane to shoot down.
a piece of poo that never worked and always got shot down
The Nimrod is an maritime patrol plane that is more of a bomber plane with heat seeking Sidewinder air-to-air missiles for self defense instead of a actual fighter plane. B-52's with 50 caliber machine guns shot down North Vietnamese MIG fighters in 1972, that doesn't make the B-52 bomber (with machine guns) a fighter plane. The world's biggest fighter plane is probably the F-14 Tomcat flown only by Iran (put in to storage in Arizona by the USA) or the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet flown by the US Navy and possibly other countries.
A fighter plane in world war 2 is much like what a modern fighter plane is today. These planes are aircraft designed with the intention of shooting down other planes. Planes like the American P-51 Mustang, German ME-109 and Japanese Zero were designed to be as fast and maneuverable as possible while having offensive weapons like machine guns and armor to protect the pilot. They would fly missions to take control of the sky by shooting down the enemies planes.
P-51 in Europe
No one. Von Richthofen was the top fighter pilot of WW1.
Manfred Von Richthofen was the best pilot because he was the only person to through a rock out the window of his plane, hit another plane's engine with it and bring down that plane. That is what made him very famous. Then he went on to shoot down many many planes during the war before he was shot down.
The stop which camel was mainly used in world war 1 as a fighter plane. One camel shot down the red baron.