Well, i can confirm 2 things for you.
1. Fighter stat affects how well planes do against other planes (this has been found to work in all types of planes, scouts included.)
2. Aircraft is useless at the moment,
To answer your questions, elite FIGHTERS are usually worth it. They arent always worth it at the end as they may or may not cap either way, but they will cap sooner which you want because otherwise your cv will be uncompetitive in gbs. Bombers cap sooner and usually become AAW resistant around 100 at the latest, so elites arent too important.
It is generally believed and accepted that the bomber stat decides how well planes survive against AAW (same for all pilots), and not against other planes because bombers dont really last longer against fighters, exception being a small amount of extra health the bomber planes have over fighters (durability). I cant state from experience that these are facts but you could send a ticket to SDE and watch the lulz ensue as they try to explain their own game's workings to you. Which they dont always know entirely. Lukas would know...
*deploys the troll bait to call lukas*
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