Messerschmitt Bf 109 | Nazi Germany's most important fighter aircraft | Full Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2023
- The German Messerschmitt Bf 109, legendary Luftwaffe Aircraft Of WW2. Full Documentary.
Includes interviews with German pilots and veterans.
Includes an Eric "Winkle" Brown interview: "Things You Might Not Know About The Messerschmitt Bf 109".
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was, along with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, the backbone of the Luftwaffe's fighter force. The Bf 109 first saw operational service in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War and was still in service at the end of World War II in 1945. It was one of the most advanced fighters when it first appeared, with an all-metal monocoque construction, a closed canopy, and retractable landing gear. It was powered by a liquid-cooled, inverted V12 aero engine. It was called the Me 109 by Allied aircrew and some German aces, even though this was not the official German designation.
It was designed by Willy Messerschmitt and Robert Lusser who worked at Bayerische Flugzeugwerke during the early to mid-1930s. It was conceived as an interceptor, although later models were developed to fulfill multiple tasks, serving as bomber escort, fighter-bomber, day-, night-, all-weather fighter, ground-attack aircraft, and reconnaissance aircraft. It was supplied to several states during World War II and served with several countries for many years after the war. The Bf 109 is the most produced fighter aircraft in history, with a total of 34,248 airframes produced from 1936 to April 1945. Some of the Bf 109 production took place in Nazi concentration camps through slave labor.
The Bf 109 was flown by the three top-scoring fighter aces of all time, who claimed 928 victories among them while flying with Jagdgeschwader 52, mainly on the Eastern Front. The highest-scoring, Erich Hartmann, was credited with 352 victories. The aircraft was also flown by Hans-Joachim Marseille, the highest-scoring ace in the North African Campaign who shot down 158 enemy aircraft (in about a third of the time). It was also flown by many aces from other countries fighting with Germany, notably the Finn Ilmari Juutilainen, the highest-scoring non-German ace. Pilots from Italy, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Hungary also flew the Bf 109. Through constant development, the Bf 109 remained competitive with the latest Allied fighter aircraft until the end of the war.
General characteristics
Crew: 1
Length: 8.95 m (29 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 9.925 m (32 ft 7 in)
Height: 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in)
Wing area: 16.05 m2 (172.8 sq ft)
Airfoil: NACA 2R1 14.2; tip: NACA 2R1 11.35[86]
Empty weight: 2,247 kg (4,954 lb)
Gross weight: 3,148 kg (6,940 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 3,400 kg (7,496 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Daimler-Benz DB 605A-1 V-12 inverted liquid-cooled piston engine 1,475 PS (1,455 hp; 1,085 kW)
Propellers: 3-bladed VDM 9-12087, 3 m (9 ft 10 in) diameter light-alloy constant-speed propeller
Performance
Maximum speed: 520 km/h (320 mph, 280 kn) at sea level
588 km/h (365 mph; 317 kn) at 4,000 m (13,123 ft)
642 km/h (399 mph; 347 kn) at 6,300 m (20,669 ft)
622 km/h (386 mph; 336 kn) at 8,000 m (26,247 ft)
Cruise speed: 590 km/h (370 mph, 320 kn) at 6,000 m (19,685 ft)
Range: 880-1,144 km (547-711 mi, 475-618 nmi)
Combat range: 440-572 km (273-355 mi, 238-309 nmi) 440-572 km to the front and back home
Ferry range: 1,144-1,994 km (711-1,239 mi, 618-1,077 nmi) 1144 without and 1994 with drop tank
Service ceiling: 12,000 m (39,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 20.1 m/s (3,960 ft/min)
Wing loading: 196 kg/m2 (40 lb/sq ft)
Power/mass: 0.344 kW/kg (0.209 hp/lb)
Armament
Guns:
2 × 13 mm (.51 in) synchronized MG 131 machine guns with 300 rpg
1 × 20 mm (.78 in) MG 151/20 cannon as centerline Motorkanone with 200 rpg or
1 x 30 mm (1.18 in) MK 108 cannon as centerline Motorkanone with 65 rpg (G-6/U4 variant)
2 × 20 mm MG 151/20 underwing cannon pods with 135 rpg (optional kit-Rüstsatz VI)
Rockets: 2 × 21 cm (8 in) Wfr. Gr. 21 rockets (G-6 with BR21)
Bombs: 1 × 250 kg (551 lb) bomb or 4 × 50 kg (110 lb) bombs or 1 × 300-litre (79 US gal) drop tank
Avionics
FuG 16Z radio
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To see 109 flying today is a beautiful thing. Thank you for restoring such a beautiful machine from WWII.
My favorite plane of all time. Whats crazy to me though is that throughout its countless iterations, they never revised the undercarriage design - especially considering how many crashes were directly associated with its design.
Years ago, I read a book where they tackled that exact question. Basically, it was never attempted for three reasons:
1) Because the landing carriage design was so integral to the overall design of the fuselage and wings... it would be necessary to redesign too many components to make it worthwhile.
2) The Fw190 was already in production with landing carriage that already addressed this weakness of the 109.
3) The landing carriage/fuselage design made rail transport of the 109 fairly easy.
The plane is so small you wouldn’t believe it, when you see it at Duxford it is so thin and small, you go wow
The aircraft you show as the FW-190 is actually the TA-152
According to Pierre Closterman de Me 109 K4 was a formidable Fighter ...
36:45 Um... the Thunderbolt didn't have 850 caliber MGs... yes, I had to listen twice, but "Eight hundred and fifty caliber" was definitely said. Those would be some *big* guns...
AI voiced.
Must have been a typo that was read out.
It has 8× .50in MGs, as we all know.
Like battleship guns.
The thing that the merlin had that made it so much more powerful later in the war was 150 octane fuel.
The Merlin had an excellent 2-stage mechanical supercharger that by the end of the war had doubled the output
но у немцев уже была закись азота , на ваш мерлин без самолета .
In English please…
@@billballbuster7186
It didn't double the output, it simply gave it maximum boost at higher altitudes when run in it's high range.
But single stage supercharger Merlin's made even more HP at lower altitudes than 2 stage Merlin's could at any altitude, because they didn't have a 2nd stage dragging down the engine, that's why they made single stage single speed supercharger version's of the Merlin throughout the entire war, aircraft like the Seafire that used them were intended to be used as low level aircraft, the impellers in the low level superchargers were even cropped down to 9" in diameter to optimize them for low altitude, there was even variant's of the Mk IX that had single stage single speed superchargers on their engine's, they were the Mk IX la (the la denoted low altitude) variant.
A Mk IX la Spitfire could take off and get to 10,000 ft faster than the Mk IX could even though it had a 2 stage supercharger, but after about 12,000 ft when the Mk IX shifted it's supercharger it'd start pulling away from the Mk IX la, but below 10,000 ft without the 2nd stage dragging down the engine and the cropped down impeller any aircraft with that kind of supercharger would be all over another one with a 2 stage supercharger like a cheap suit.
That's why the US Army selected the supercharger/turbo configuration for it's aircraft, they had single stage superchargers that at medium altitude the turbo started feeding it, since a turbo is a waste energy recovery system you don't have a 2nd stage on the supercharger dragging down another 250 HP off the engine, that gives the engine maximum boost at all altitudes, but it's bulkier with all the ductwork for the turbo, costs more and takes longer to develop aircraft that use that system, the US Navy for their own reasons used the 2 stage supercharger system but later variant's, like the later variant's of the F4U, had the 2nd stage hydro coupled which means you don't have to reduce the throttle when shifting the supercharger into it's high range to prevent overboost, at medium altitude you just start pushing the boost lever forward, the further forward the faster it spins the 2nd stage, it still drags the engine down driving a 2nd stage but you don't have the overboost issue when shifting the supercharger into a higher range.
The ME109 used a single stage supercharger that was hydro coupled, it worked the same way but only had a single stage which was sufficient with the smaller displacement it's engine had compared to the R2800 engine in the F4U, which needed a 2nd stage, one of the massive British engine's, I can't remember which one, actually had a 3 stage supercharger on it to be able to provide maximum boost at high altitude, I think it might have been one of those massive sleeve valve engine's but I can't remember for sure.
2 stage superchargers don't double boost, they can just give the engine maximum boost at high altitude when shifted into their high range, at low altitude if you had it shifted into high range you'd overboost the engine and scatter it.
The Germans had the same equivalent octane fuel - but ran their engines lean to conserve fuel. Running lean reduces equivalent octane rating.
The use of full authority automatic throttles in the German engines meant that the mixture was set on the ground and couldn’t be adjusted in flight.
Your flying tigers feature was superb. Public comments not allowed. Typical U Tube. You miss out on memoirs by refusing casual contributions.
That is a livestream loop. You can freely comment on the official video on the channel, which is the same: ruclips.net/video/gaJrwwOkEjY/видео.htmlsi=j6sOBexZKM4rKihj
Thank you for the kind words
Douglas Bader said, if you had an ME 109 on your tail, you should turn, turn, turn to lose it, he used it frequently & it never failed him. They had heard a rumour about an ME 109 pilot, who had put the plane into a tight turn & it ripped the wings off. German pilot's were scared of doing the same, so wouldn't push the plane to out turn the RAF fighters.
Bader😂 isn't he the guy that was shot down and spent the war as a pow in a German camp. He had no legs and was carried around by another prisoner. 😅
Your information is wrong & his spare legs were dropped on a bombing raid.
Bravo.perfect
отличный самолет с минимальными потерями на балансировку . Я бы еще добавил корневой наплыв крыла , с передним вортексом и поставил бы современый суперламинарный профиль крыла . И коэффициент сужения крыла уменьшил бы , для увеличения маневренности относительно оси Х. И винтомоторную группу можно пересчитать компьютерами .
Nobody had the capability to mass produce laminar flow wings back then, when NACA tested the P51 they made it perfectly clear in their reports that the wings didn't achieve true laminar flow due to production flaws, and American aircraft were notoriously built to a higher standard than German aircraft were during the war, they'd never have been able to achieve it.
Even if something like the P51 could have been mass produced with the tolerances for them to have truly laminar flowing wings it probably wouldn't have lasted past the first mission or two, bent wings and rippled panels on them from high G maneuvers would negate the precision needed to truly achieve laminar flow, even bug strikes would do it.
Excelente avion tremendo cañon, algo pesado
Hans J. Marseilles definitely the biggest chad of the aces. Stacked more bodies than Bob Ross and got more ass than Hughes Heffner
A long time ago, in my childhood, I had a collection of WW2 aircraft models in a 1:72 scale. One of them was a Messerschmitt Me 109 and NOT - Bf 109‼Germans and Soviets designated their aircraft with the first two letters of the constructor bureau,
for instance, Ju for Junkers, He for Heinkel, Tu for Tupovlev, Il for Ilushin >>>hence the Me for Messerschmitt. I don't know when and why the abbreviation Me became Bf. Somebody explain to me, please ‼🙏🤨
36:45 So the P-47 had 850 caliber machine guns, eh?
one of those damn things dropped a 500 pound bomb on my dad at Anzio Italy 1944 .i shit you not !
too short cruising range
Messerschmitt was almost as much an enemy as Stalin; only he could make a fighter that was more dangerous to its own pilot than the enemy. Because of that dodgy landing gear, more 109's were lost to landing and take-off accidents than to enemy action.
не преувеличивай , такое расположение шасси дает преимущество в низком весе конструкции . Вилли гений своего времени .
@@billtackettsr.1860
That's right, they lost about ⅓rd of their ME109's to accidents which is on par with pretty much all other WW2 aircraft.
The 8th Air Force also lost ⅓rd of it's aircraft in Europe to accidents, people just don't get that taking off and trying to maintain some kind of a formation while climbing up through clouds is a hairy thing to do along with all the other things they had to do during the war, it took sometimes over an hour to get all the bombers for a mission assembled, they just kept flying around in circles until all had taken off and climbed up to assemble with the others, having that many orbiting around over the airfield with others climbing up and merging in was a dangerous thing to do, climbing up through those clouds trying to stay together and then when you pop out of the clouds possibly having the sun right in your eyes and not knowing exactly where the planes are that've already formed up, that's a recipe for disaster.
The fact that the fuselage couldn’t be repaired in the field was an issue too (the fuselage was built from flanged spools that had to be replaced as a unit in a factory alignment jig).
The Spitfire used separate stringers and skin plates - heavier but field repairable giving higher availability.
The Me209 got a wider gear track and the Me309 got tricycle undercarriage that was also used on the Me262 (exactly the same gear).
@@allangibson8494
The ME262 was originally a tail dragger but the swept wings kept air flow from going over the tail and it wouldn't rise up going down the runway, after several attempts the test pilot had to stomp on the brakes after he got it rolling fast to get the tail to rise up so the control surfaces had air flow across them and it'd respond to control inputs for pitch, so they redesigned it with a tricycle landing gear.
That's a factoid.
BLACK 6 crashed at an air show :(
Bauchlandung !
Messerschmitt Bf 109, or was it more time under the name ME 109
Say what you want, the Germans had the nicest stuff
The angry German guy should be told that it was Britain that developed water - methanol injection.
Some of the comments are a tad bitter. England didn't need to copy Germany
It wasn't until after the war that the USA started making great looking aircraft.....due to all the Germans working for them!😅
Not suitable in this even😢
The story of the Me-109 is one largely of myth and propaganda. One third of all Me-109s built (11,000) were destroyed in take-off and landing accidents. The cockpit was cramped and the canopy vision was poor. It was a good gun platform and had good armament, flight performance was very good in the early years, but after the G model deteriorated. Most of the kills were against much inferior aircraft, especially the Soviet fighters.
That's pretty much the average with all WW2 combat aircraft, a full ⅓rd of all 8th Air Force aircraft lost during the war were to accidents, that's just counting when they got over to Europe and not including training accidents in the states.
Flying those things was a dangerous business in a war and the dangers came from more than just the enemy, even in peacetime the military is dangerous, since I've been out of the Army in 1986 I've had 3 of the 10 deadliest job's in American history, and I saw more guy's get killed and maimed in the 3 years I was in the peacetime military than in all the years since that I've had those dangerous occupations, OSHA would loose their minds if they had oversight of the military with some of the things we did, but since you can't go driving around through the woods and across a desert with the headlights turned on operating armored vehicles in a war then you can't practice for it with them on in peacetime, that makes driving over cliffs or running over people in sleeping bags that even with night vision goggles look just like brush real easy to do, it's just the nature of the beast.
@@dukecraig2402Half of the RAF aircrew died during WW2.
The only more dangerous occupation was a U-Boat crewman which had a 75% mortality rate.
25% of British merchant mariners died during WW2 (half the ships flying a British flag were sunk and half the crew on those ships died).
The safest combat position was a crewman in a Sherman tank which had a 1% mortality rate (with one fatality per tank destroyed).
11000? Where did you get that number, out of your ass? The Spitfire had a narrower undercarriage and also killed 100's of pilots in accidents. Do more research before making dumb comments.
@@allangibson8494
Yea, but we're talking about just accidents, that's the thing, I'd lay odds that not submarines or any other combat job in WW2 had a rate of deaths due to accidents as high as airmen, about 33%.
There's no way 33% of the submariners, tankers, infantrymen, or anyone else killed were due to mishaps, 75% of German submariners towards the end of the war may have been getting killed but ⅓rd of them wouldn't be due to accidents.
And if you're a commanding officer how do you write that letter home to someone's mother? At least when someone was killed due to enemy action you get to tell his mother that her son died bravely fighting the forces of evil but how do you explain an accident to her? It'd be hard enough writing those kinds of letters without having to figure out how to word something like that.
@@dukecraig2402 The submarines were very unforgiving too.
A lot of them were lost to accidents too - which could be as simple as a broken valve handle. The problem for the U-Boat (and other submarine) crews is they simply went out and never came back. A lot of aircrew are in the same situation (my great uncle died with his crew on his first operational flight - shot down over Tripoli and listed as MIA in 1941 (two of the Wellington crew were buried by the Italian military after they died of burns in the Tripoli war cemetery)). He is simply listed as “lost at sea”.
Yeah... Lucky for American pilots the haven't meet many of Luftwafe experienced pilots cause most of them were killed by "inferior" Soviet pilots...but few of them where enough. Propaganda...someone need education.
Majority of the planes the 109 shot down🪂 were old Two Wing Planes!!
The Spitfire started kicking the 109 ass!!!
Then once the American P-51 showed up over Berlin s*** hit the fan in Germany!!
How many old two wing planes were used in WWII. I am afraid a very small number.
The real reason that Germany got their ass kicked. Is because God allowed the British and the Americans to set the laws straight. Karma
The concentration camps were a big mortal sin! Germany was doomed after that
I wouldn't be boasting so much about shooting down planes over the Eastern Front, the Soviets Plains sucked they were junk and easy to shoot down.
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