Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
ADOLF GALLANDAccompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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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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Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
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I made a written report which is still today in existence.
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“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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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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At this time, the aircraft was completely secret.
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This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
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And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
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The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves.
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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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The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
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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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Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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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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