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.
ADOLF GALLANDThe war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of ’42, in Russia.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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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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No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.
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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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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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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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Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
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If we would have had the 262 at our disposal – even with all the delays
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Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart,
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Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed.
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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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Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
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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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I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter.
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We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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Never abandon the possibility of attack.
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