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.
ADOLF GALLANDAnd most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
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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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Will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
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Which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.
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Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
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Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
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Superior technical achievements – used correctly both strategically and tactically
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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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Flying is more than a sport and more than a job
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
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This was my impression.
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I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43.
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The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of ’42, in Russia.
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An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side.
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Or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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