This often results in improving one’s own position.
ADOLF GALLANDThis aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
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This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 – even in my position.
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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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We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters
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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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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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Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
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No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.
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The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves.
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I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter.
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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 could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
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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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And that’s when we did it. I think we did it.
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