Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability.
ADOLF GALLANDThis aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
More Adolf Galland Quotes
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This often results in improving one’s own position.
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I made a written report which is still today in existence.
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The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down
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I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43.
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No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.
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As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success
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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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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm
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“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.
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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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We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy.
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The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves.
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