To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
ADOLF GALLANDFor the first time I was flying by jet propulsion.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
-
-
This often results in improving one’s own position.
ADOLF GALLAND -
Will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
ADOLF GALLAND -
You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
ADOLF GALLAND -
As interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
ADOLF GALLAND -
Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.
ADOLF GALLAND -
Later when asked what it felt like, I said, “It felt as though angels were pushing”.
ADOLF GALLAND -
I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43.
ADOLF GALLAND -
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.
ADOLF GALLAND -
Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances
ADOLF GALLAND -
Perhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system.
ADOLF GALLAND -
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
ADOLF GALLAND -
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.
ADOLF GALLAND -
The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down
ADOLF GALLAND -
And for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.
ADOLF GALLAND -
The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves.
ADOLF GALLAND