This often results in improving one’s own position.
ADOLF GALLANDThis was my impression.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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Flying is more than a sport and more than a job
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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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Will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
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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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This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first.
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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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Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed.
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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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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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I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
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This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
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And that’s when we did it. I think we did it.
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Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
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During the Battle of Britain the question “fighter or fighter-bomber?” had been decided once and for all
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