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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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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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Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability.
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If we would have had the 262 at our disposal – even with all the delays
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Never abandon the possibility of attack.
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That day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that’s for sure.
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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.
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And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first.
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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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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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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm
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Flying is more than a sport and more than a job
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During the Battle of Britain the question “fighter or fighter-bomber?” had been decided once and for all
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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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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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We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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