It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot.
ADOLF GALLANDAn excellent weapon and luck had been on my side.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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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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To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
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Or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.
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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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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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And that’s when we did it. I think we did it.
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And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
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Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart,
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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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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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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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Never abandon the possibility of attack.
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Aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first.
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This was my impression.
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Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.
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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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This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down
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I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter.
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The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of ’42, in Russia.
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At this time, the aircraft was completely secret.
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