Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 Restored To New at FHCAM 2023
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- This aircraft was flying a few times a year up to 2019. Today she rests in the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum in Everett Washington. She is a data plate reconstruction of work nummer 1342 Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 Emil.
It was delivered to the Luftwaffe around the end of October 1939 - it was issued to Jagdgeschwader 51 and assigned to Feldwebel Eduard Hemmerling of the unit’s 6th Staffel..
Hemmerling fought in France and England in 1940. He had a total of three kills before he was killed in combat. He shot down an RAF 54 Squadron Supermarine Spitfire on July 7, 1940 over Dover and two days later he downed a Bristol Blenheim near Cap Blanc Nez. His last victory came only moments before he perished in his Messerschmitt later that month.
On the 29th of July Hemmerling was escorting a force of 48 Junkers Ju 87 ‘Stuka’ dive-bombers and found himself in a dogfight over Dover. He shot down a British aircraft - his third aerial victory. However, his airplane was also hit in the fight and Hemmerling was forced to turn back to France. He never make it and crashed on the coast of Cap Blanc Nez. The 27-year-old Luftwaffe pilot died in the crash.
Forty Eight years later a man was walking on the beach near Calais when he noticed a piece of metal sticking out of the sand. It was the wingtip of Bf 109 1342 and the hulk was recovered from its watery grave.
The Messerschmitt was sent to England for restoration at Craig Charleston’s Charleston Aviation Services workshop near Colchester in Essex. It was placed on the British civil register as G-BYDS in November 1998 for New Zealand-based Sir Tim Wallis’s Alpine Fighter Collection.
Prior to first flight, the Messerschmitt was acquired by Paul Allen and it was registered to Flying Heritage as N342FH in November 2004. The first engine and taxi runs were carried out at Wattisham, Suffolk, in February 2005.
Shipped to the USA, 1342 was re-assembled at Arlington, Washington and then Steve Hinton carried out the Bf 109’s first flight in 68 years on March 22, 2008. Happy with its performance, Hinton ferried the fighter to Paine Field.
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The Bf-109 was the plane that got me hooked on military aviation when I was a little boy. She's still is my first love!
They didn't have the central cannon until the F or G models. The E had the opening for the cannon, but they couldn't get the system working until the later model.
Very tough time in the world when these flew, but I'm impressed all the markings are intact, not celebrating rather remembering. If we are going to restore them then they need to be restored period accurate.
The MG's are in the top cowl, above the engine, firing through the propeller.
Love seeing the 190 and 109 next to each other
The Bf 109 e didn't have a cannon firing through the propeller hub! Only 2 mg on top of the cowling and 2 20mm in the wings!
Yes I see that now, thank-you.
+@user-qx5pu5nc93 The RLM wrote the specification/requirements for future engine designs in the 1920s, with inverted layout and allowance for a central cannon for Vee engines. But not all aircraft variants were equipped with the cannon.
Excellent restoration, but how much of the original aircraft is actually left?
+@user-sj5lq8uz5j This aircraft was a wreck found in the surf on the coast of France, just wings and center section. Saltwater is brutal to aircraft, so this would be a mostly new airframe.
I was helicopter aircrew in 2005 when we went to RAF Wattisham U.K. This aircraft was there towards the end of its restoration to flying condition.
Is it still flying?
It is flyable but the last time it flew was 2019. It has new owner that has not released any information on when it will fly again.
+@TheLincolnshireFlyer The new owners of the Paul Allen collection have hinted that flying may begin again in 2024. If you are in the UK, the Bf-109E that was with the Russell Group in Ontario, Canada is now with a new owner who hangers it at Biggin Hill. (I'm not sure how much if flies though.) ruclips.net/video/BzUUlO6ihwE/видео.html And I think there are two more Bf-109E projects that will come to the UK when they are complete.
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Every Bf-109E model restoration that is flying has been completed by the same workshop in the UK, with Craig Charleston. The last example completed by Charleston was delivered to a customer in Germany a few years ago, although the wings were constructed in Germany. ruclips.net/video/ZcLltEmAlXE/видео.html Look for two more Bf-109E to be completed in Germany in a few years at Meier. Both will be stunning, one being an actual Condor Legion Bf-109E-1 and the second Emil will be painted in Hungarian Air Force colors if my info is correct. ruclips.net/video/TB-YoonHGDE/видео.html Regarding the Me-262 pony starter engine, it is a compact two-stroke Riedel making 10hp and it is clutched to the turbine. ruclips.net/video/ItXgDlSojTk/видео.html Mr. Riedel's son has commented on RUclips about his father's engine, or at least someone claiming to be his son.
Super great information - thank-you!
Pretty sure the FW190 was the most popular . the engine in the front of each Jumo in the 262 is a two stroke with a pull-start ring