This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
ADOLF GALLANDThe battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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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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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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Superior technical achievements – used correctly both strategically and tactically
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I made a written report which is still today in existence.
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We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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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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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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That day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that’s for sure.
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If we would have had the 262 at our disposal – even with all the delays
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Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
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Will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
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This was my impression.
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I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter.
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Which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.
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