Awesome! I'd love to see (and to hear) a BF-109 in flight
this morning as I drank my coffee, I was wondering, how many BF-109's are there around flying today? Although it was the most produced fighter aircraft of all time, I hear that ~1/3rd were lost in takeoff/landing, and then many were destroyed by the end of the war. Are they a relative "rarity" to be flying today, or are there quite a few around? A tough question to answer, but I am nonetheless curious,
Thanks,
Stingray
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Stingray333:
Awesome! I'd love to see (and to hear) a BF-109 in flight
this morning as I drank my coffee, I was wondering, how many BF-109's are there around flying today? Although it was the most produced fighter aircraft of all time, I hear that ~1/3rd were lost in takeoff/landing, and then many were destroyed by the end of the war. Are they a relative "rarity" to be flying today, or are there quite a few around? A tough question to answer, but I am nonetheless curious,
Thanks,
Stingray </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
A little bit of surviving 109 info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messers..._109_Survivors
Lovely to see it in the air![]()
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Cool pics.
This guy has a Me-163B too? Must have taken balls to fly that thing!</div></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Taken at Augsburg airshow 2008![]()
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Schwarz.13:
Lovely to see it in the air![]()
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by cawimmer430:
Cool pics.
This guy has a Me-163B too? Must have taken balls to fly that thing!</div></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Taken at Augsburg airshow 2008</div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Jesus! What was powering this thing!? The original Walter engine with the dangerous T-Stoff hydrogen peroxide mixture!?![]()
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by cawimmer430:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Schwarz.13:
Lovely to see it in the air![]()
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by cawimmer430:
Cool pics.
This guy has a Me-163B too? Must have taken balls to fly that thing!</div></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Taken at Augsburg airshow 2008</div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Jesus! What was powering this thing!? The original Walter engine with the dangerous T-Stoff hydrogen peroxide mixture!?</div></BLOCKQUOTE>
No you fruit bat. I am sure it is a towed model.![]()
even the original 163's were towed quite often before they were ever "sharp started"![]()
They could put in a new hydrogen pyroxide engine that is very safe but it would have no where near the power of the original I believe.
Funny thing is it is flying with the dolly attached!![]()
Not a good idea to ever do with the original EVER!