It’s unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.
ADOLF GALLANDThis often results in improving one’s own position.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.
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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
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I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type.
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This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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At this time, the aircraft was completely secret.
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Superior technical achievements – used correctly both strategically and tactically
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As interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
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The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
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For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion.
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
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Later when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
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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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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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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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