Nine G's Is Good, If The Pilot

Today It Is Even More Important To Dominate The . . . Highly Sophisticated Weapon Systems, Perhaps Even More Important Than Being A Good Pilot; To Make The Best Use Of This System.

We Have Built A Total Of About 1250 Of This Aircraft, But Only Fifty Were Allowed To Be Used As Fighters - As Interceptors. And Out Of This Fifty, There Were Never More Than 25 Operational. So We Had Only A Very, Very Few.

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.

If We Would Have Had The 262 At Our Disposal - Even With All The Delays - If We Could Have Had In '44, Ah, Let's Say Three Hundred Operational, That Day We Could Have Stopped The American Daytime Bombing Offensive, That's For Sure.

I Had To Inspect All Fighter Units In Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, And Norway. I Had To Be Everywhere.