If we would have had the 262 at our disposal – even with all the delays
ADOLF GALLANDIf we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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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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This often results in improving one’s own position.
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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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To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first.
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We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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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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The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
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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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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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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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Will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
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Aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.
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I made a written report which is still today in existence.
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