Superior technical achievements – used correctly both strategically and tactically
ADOLF GALLANDI 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.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
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Later when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
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This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first.
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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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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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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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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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Flying is more than a sport and more than a job
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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This often results in improving one’s own position.
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The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves.
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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
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