The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
ADOLF GALLANDOnly in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves.
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I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type.
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Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
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To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
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I made a written report which is still today in existence.
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
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Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill
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This was my impression.
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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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This often results in improving one’s own position.
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Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart,
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Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first.
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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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“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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