This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
ADOLF GALLANDNine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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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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Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed.
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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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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first.
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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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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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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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Never abandon the possibility of attack.
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Later when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
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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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Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
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Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart,
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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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