This was my impression.
ADOLF GALLANDAs 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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Will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
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And that’s when we did it. I think we did 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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At this time, the aircraft was completely secret.
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We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
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Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter.
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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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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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For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion.
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No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.
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Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.
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