To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
ADOLF GALLANDAnd that’s when we did it. I think we did it.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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Flying is more than a sport and more than a job
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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm
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This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
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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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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
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That day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that’s for sure.
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Will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
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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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As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success
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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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Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.
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I made a written report which is still today in existence.
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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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