We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
ADOLF GALLANDThe fighter in the opening of a dogfight must detect the opponent as early as possible in order to attain a superior position for the attack.
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Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
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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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Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed.
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If we would have had the 262 at our disposal – even with all the delays
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Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability.
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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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This often results in improving one’s own position.
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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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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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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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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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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I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
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