The most massive produced fighter of the Nazi Germany in the period of the Second World War was the "Messerschmitt Bf 109" made by the firm "Bayerische Flugzeugwerke" in the middle of the 30’s.
The flight of the experimental exemplar took place in May 28, 1935.
Should be noted, that the appearance of the "Messerschmitt Bf 109" not very interested the Luftwaffe command, which preferred the "He 112" fighter of the "Heinkel" firm.
"He 112" of the "Heinkel" firm.
Only the acquaintance of the general constructor Messerschmitt with one the party members of the Nazi Germany, allowed him to get an order of '10' experimental exemplars for comparison with the "He 112".
The comparison showed, that the "Bf 109" has no advantages over the "He 112".
But the civil war in Spain, which was like an polygon ground for all the countries, showed the contrary.
"Bf 109" above Spain.
When the time came for real fightings in the air, the "He 112" showed itself unreliable, and the Luftwaffe made the final choice for the "Bf 109".
In the beginning of 1937 the "Bf 109" was officially adopted by Luftwaffe, and in February '40' fighters of the first serial modification "Bf 109B-1" appeared in the sky of Spain.
The construction of the "Bf 109" corresponded to the 30’s tendency of fighters construction, and included monoplane body with a water cooled engine.
monoplane and biplane differences.
The first modifications of the "Bf 109" fighter was equipped with the Jumo 210 engine, and DB601/DB605 in the late modifications.
Wherein, the power grew from 700 to 1475 h.p, and with the using of GM1/MW50 boost systems the engine could reach an maximum index of about 2000 h.p.
Jumo 210 engine.
The pilot cockpit was deployed in the middle of the plane construction, the cockpit glazing was made out of high quality plastic, which provided all sides overview.
"Bf 109" cockpit.
Navigation equipment and plane control systems were also deployed on the fighter, usually oxygen device was deployed as well, in the tail of the plane was the radio station.
'2' fuel tanks of 200 liters each, were located under the cabin seat behind the pilot.
"Bf 109" had low lying metal cladded trapezoid wing, which was little weighted, the advantage of the wing was that It could be easily changed in field conditions with only '2' mechanics.
It could be possible, because the landing gear was deployed in the plane body, and folded in the wings when flying.
Yet this decision wasn’t great, because the landing gear couldn’t open widely, the planes steadiness was poor during take offs and take ons.
"Bf 109" landing gear.
The armament of the plane grew, in the earliest modifications there was '2' synchronized machine guns above the engine(Bf 109B), later on an additional '2' machine guns were deployed in the wings(Bf 109C-1), those '2' machine guns were swapped to 20mm cannons(Bf 109E-1), '1' additional 20mm cannon was deployed in the propeller shaft(Bf 109E-3,Bf 109F,Bf 109G).
MG FF 20mm cannon.
Starting from 1944 the "Bf 109" was equipped even with 30mm cannons!
MK 108 30mm cannon.
The "Bf 109" could be used as a light bomber with variations of '4' bombs of 50kg or '1' 250kg bomb or '1' 500kg bomb.
At the end I will tack the technical information of one of the latest modifications of "Bf 109", and some photos/arts of this air beast that brought horror to the skies.
Technical information of "Bf 109G-6"
| Bf 109G-6 | Information |
|---|---|
| Crew | '1' pilot |
| Max.take-off weight | 3150kg |
| LengthxHeightxwingspan | 9,02x3,40x9,91 |
| Engine | 1x1800h.p |
| Max speed | 621km/h |
| Climb rate | 16-17m/s |
| Range of flight | 720km |
| Armament | 2x13mm machine guns and 3x20mm cannons |
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