Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
ADOLF GALLANDAnd most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first.
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An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side.
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I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43.
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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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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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To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
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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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That day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that’s for sure.
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Flying is more than a sport and more than a job
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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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“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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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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Which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.
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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.
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This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
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