I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter.
ADOLF GALLANDNo engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.
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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Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy.
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At this time, the aircraft was completely secret.
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It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot.
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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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Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill
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This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm
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This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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Never abandon the possibility of attack.
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Flying is more than a sport and more than a job
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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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This often results in improving one’s own position.
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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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