During the Battle of Britain the question “fighter or fighter-bomber?” had been decided once and for all
ADOLF GALLANDThe 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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The fighter in the opening of a dogfight must detect the opponent as early as possible in order to attain a superior position for the attack.
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If we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational
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And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
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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 battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth 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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This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
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Never abandon the possibility of attack.
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Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems
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Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
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The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
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Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.
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For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion.
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You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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