Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability.
ADOLF GALLANDAccording to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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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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Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
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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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This was my impression.
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This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
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Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses
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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm
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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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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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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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If we would have had the 262 at our disposal – even with all the delays
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This often results in improving one’s own position.
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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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Or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.
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