And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
ADOLF GALLANDIf we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
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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 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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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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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances
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At this time, the aircraft was completely secret.
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And that’s when we did it. I think we did it.
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An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side.
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No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.
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I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter.
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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 aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
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I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 – even in my position.
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Which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.
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