This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
ADOLF GALLANDFlying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
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Will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
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Later when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
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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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I made a written report which is still today in existence.
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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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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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I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 – even in my position.
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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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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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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 colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down
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We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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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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Flying is more than a sport and more than a job
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