Bf109

[335th_GRAthos]

As usual, the Canadians...:0:

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/124/language/en-CA/Bouncing-Clouds--Flying-the-Messerschmitt-Bf-109.aspx

http://www.vintagewings.ca/Portals/0/Vintage_Stories/ArchivedStories/109Title.jpg


~S~

[ChiefRedCloud]

Nice ...... I like it .... :dthumb:

[104th_MoGas]

:thumbsup:

[ATAG_Torian]

Quite a good read. One thing tho, The Emil didn't have a cannon coming thru the
spinner did it ? I thought the Emils had 2 x 20mm wing mounted cannons.
If so what then is that Emil doing with one ?

"Noise and stink were not the only things to come out of the Daimler-Benz DB601
engine - it also spewed a thumping heavy stream of 20 mm cannon rounds. The
single high-performance cannon (or 'shell-gun', as sometimes referred in the 1930s)
fired through the cylinder banks via a blast tube, with the engine buffering the
recoil."

This plane has 2 barrels protruding from each wing...not sure if they are machine
guns (E1) or cannons (E3 onward). Maybe he thinks it is a cannon and is getting
confused with later 109s ?

[III./ZG76_Keller]

I believe that mid to late model "Emils" (E3 or E4 onward) were built with a hollow channel through the engine and spinner with the intention of adding a cannon. I don't believe a center line cannon ever made it to a production model though, as they had complications trying to implement it.

[Doc]

The center cannon had 200 rounds. A big improvement over the 60 in each wing now.

[LG1.Farber]

So basically he is Don Quixote of the old warbirds world...

:laugh1

[MajorBorris]

:thumbsup:

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