Later when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
ADOLF GALLANDMany 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.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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Will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
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That day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that’s for sure.
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Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability.
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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm
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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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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
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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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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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At this time, the aircraft was completely secret.
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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43.
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I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter.
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The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down
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