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 GALLANDI would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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Perhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system.
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Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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Will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
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And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
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Flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.
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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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At this time, the aircraft was completely secret.
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Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances
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Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
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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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“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
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I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43.
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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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