Command Quote by Adolf Galland Download Open image “According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.” — Adolf Galland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Command Fighter
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe. — Franz Halder Copy Share Image
The younger generation of fighters, they want to try to make a name for themselves. They want to be something that they're not. — Cub Swanson Copy Share Image
During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
I don't know where that thought came from and I don't know why I had that thought, but I thought I was the best… — B. J. Penn Copy Share Image
“The Germans drafted a profusion of designs, many intriguingly bizarre, but nevertheless, the ancestor of practically every advanced aircraft made following World War II… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“It was perhaps, then, not surprising that it was Colonel Beppo Schmid, not General Martini, who on 16 July submitted to Göring the principal… — James Holland Copy Share Image
This is something that we talked about for a long time. Going in depth and behind the scenes, and showing things that no one… — Floyd Mayweather Copy Share Image
As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being a good… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller. Accompanied by… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors.… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
“Four days before the declaration of World War II, on August 27, 1939, the test pilot van Chaim flew the first jet aircraft in… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44,… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work? — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and… — William P. Young Copy Share Image