If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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More Adolf Galland Quotes
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This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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Which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.
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I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43.
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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.
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Later when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
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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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Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
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Will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
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Aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.
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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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This often results in improving one’s own position.
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Nine g’s is good, if the pilot can stand it.
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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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