The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first.
ADOLF GALLANDWill bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
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This often results in improving one’s own position.
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As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success
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We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.
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At this time, the aircraft was completely secret.
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I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter.
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Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
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To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.
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We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters
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The fighter in the opening of a dogfight must detect the opponent as early as possible in order to attain a superior position for the attack.
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Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill
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And for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.
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The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of ’42, in Russia.
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