The Bf 109 always reminds of a striking harrier - fast and deadly. I love the look of this fighter.

the me-109 could reach the speed 0f 1000mph

Steven it was 1986 not 1977!

d-jay you are toatally WRONG!!!

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By 1945 a shortage of aircraft metals ment that the tails of 109s were made of wood, thats why thier is a braced tail plane on the 3 view drawing.

The "enlarged" 3 view drawing is of a B or C model powered by a Jumo engine. The smaller 3 view drawing is a later model, identified by the rounded wing tips, possibly a "G" but the braced tail plane is a mystery.
Just for the record Gus it is an Emil not an Emily.

A fine aircraft, I prefer the snub-nosed 'Emil' types though, like the spitfire and the mustang, they had a classic look about them. Also, love that 30mm cannon in the nose!

Red-line dive for the Bf 109 was 564 mph.
380 turn time was 20.5 seconds for the F-4;
21 for the G-2; and about 23 with wing boots.

Terminal dive was 572 mph for the F-4. That is the tail was reinforced for this rating. Of course the F-4 was test flown up to 609 mph but test pilots are not the same as service pilots. Likewise the 109G model reached 594 mph test flown.

Sorry about my typo in the last comment, I was trying to say supports that go from the frame/body to the rear horizontal/ wing stabilizers. I think most 109 models before the F had them. I am seeing G-6 models (models and drawings) with these supports added (Hartmann G-6) did this actually take place and some G-6 models had them added. Email me with links and reasons for this is it an error or true.

I have noticed some models and drawings showing the Me-109G-6 with horizontal stabilizer (rear horizontal tail wings) with the supports that go from the body the the horizontal stabilizers/wings like the earlier 109 aircraft like the E variant. Can someone explain when this was actually done or is it a mistake in the models and drawings. Please email me and let me know. pointed@earthlink.net

The statistics themselves are fairly pointless without factors such as speed, load, and altitude. Comparison requires that performance of both side's representative aircraft be revealed as in American Zero testing, one on one against US fighters. Finally, some experte pilots operated 109's in a fashion which seemed to defy statistics. You can tell who they were by their scores. Same for elite soviet aces.

Time to turn a circle for the Emil was typically 25 seconds.
The redesigned 109F-2 had no 20-mm cannon like the Emil, just a hub 15-mm to go with the twin cowl light MG-17s. So that may help account for a quicker time of 18 seconds.
The Russians clocked a Bf 109G-2/R6 with under-wing 20-mm cannon boots at 22.6 seconds per full circle turn.
If anyone finds more data like this, I'm interested to see it.

An Israeli person: It was S-199, czechoslovak figter, which fought for your freedom, you should know this, same as the fact, that those Spitfires were czechoslovak LF Mk.IXe. They were all sent to Israel, except one piece- Ser. No. TE 565, (NN-N) from the former No.310 fighter squadron, RAF. This airplane crashed lightly during take-of and remained the only ex RAF Spitfire in Czechoslovakia, being now the No.1 piece in the collection of the Kbely air force museum in Prague

the three way drawing is of a Bf-109H high altitude variant as can be seen by the lengthened wing area at the roots. but after clicking on it it is a D variants.

Marseille was a master of deflection shooting, using only a handful of bullets per target, and dutifully recording the time of his kill. Hartmann, the Blond Knight, was shot down 18 times, I think. He went in close for the shot and it worked for him. The negative G bunt was a tactic devised against RAF aircraft and Bob Johnson, flying a P47,found it amazing that it was so easy to shoot down 109`s using this tactic against the Jug. Zeros also cut out at negative G so the noseover would work against it. 30mm MK108 cannons didn`t fit in the wing but were hung underneath in gondolas. There were bomber destroyer 109`s with heavy armor and armament as well as escort 109`s to protect the bomber destroyers from fighters. Nitrous and methonol injection versions made it impossible to define the performance and handling of the 109G variants in easy numbers. Taking off in a 109 was dangerous for student pilots due to torque and canted narrow track undercarriage.

does anyone have a 109 engine im restoring one prvetly

QUOTE/Jerry Mancisidor, jerry_mancisidor(@)hotmail.com, 29.01.2009
Just wanted to clarify that pilot Hans Joachim Marseille died when bailing out from his new Bf-109 F-4 after experiencing engine trouble. He was on a patrol flight and did not encounter enemy fighters to engage on that day, then his engine made a strange noise and started overheating. He was going to bail out, but was still over Britain held territory, so his comrades urged and requested him to resist a couple more minutes untill arriving to German held territory. When arriving to German side, but blinded by smoke, he did not realized that his bail-by-roll-out operation was not performed horizontally, but inclined. This situation caused that he was hit by the rudder of his -109, knocking him unconscious, and avoiding him to open his parachute. He died when hitting the ground, and a deep injury was found on his chest, presumably caused by the rudder.

When he died, in Sept. 1942, his personal account was at 158 downed planes.

Hoped it help clarifying this point.

Very kindly, Jerry Mancisidor/QUOTE

I recall Marseille's last flight occurred in a new Bf 109G-2, not Bf 109F-4, and that this incident was an example of engine problems encountered in the new Bf 109G-series.

Just wanted to clarify that pilot Hans Joachim Marseille died when bailing out from his new Bf-109 F-4 after experiencing engine trouble. He was on a patrol flight and did not encounter enemy fighters to engage on that day, then his engine made a strange noise and started overheating. He was going to bail out, but was still over Britain held territory, so his comrades urged and requested him to resist a couple more minutes untill arriving to German held territory. When arriving to German side, but blinded by smoke, he did not realized that his bail-by-roll-out operation was not performed horizontally, but inclined. This situation caused that he was hit by the rudder of his -109, knocking him unconscious, and avoiding him to open his parachute. He died when hitting the ground, and a deep injury was found on his chest, presumably caused by the rudder.

When he died, in Sept. 1942, his personal account was at 158 downed planes.

Hoped it help clarifying this point.

Very kindly, Jerry Mancisidor

the pilot Hans Joanchim Marseille flew Bf 109F-4 trop and he shoot down 106 enemy plane before his dead in one dogfighting between bf 109 and p51 mustang

Three view belongs to a much older version, a C or D... Look at the squared wing tips, and the sharp nose!
Not even an Emily, look at the radiator under the cowling!

Because of the oval shaped panels on the top of the wings, I believe the three view drawing is of the 109K-14 version which had two 30mm cannon mounted internally in the wings.

Hello 1 I`am working with the Mauser 151/20 machine cannon for a ME 109. Do anyone have a manual over the gun-system for this aircraft ?

World speed record: The Heinkel 100 record plane was quite close to the serial one, except for the engine. On contrary the Me 209 record plane was only designed to get the record. Different canopy, different wing. Cooling was provided by a water tank (!), because Messerschmidt (like Heinkel) faced problems with the surface cooling. A serial He 100 using a DB 601 (!) would have had an estimated top speed of 675 km/h, almost 100 km faster than the Bf 109 E.
E Udet claimed that "we will win the war with the 80 km slower 109". Interestingly, the He 100 was sold to Japan and Soviet Union. Neither country implemented the surface cooling in a plane.

Always good as a point defense interceptor, it didn't shine so well as an escort in the Battle of Brittain with it's modest range (can you imagine a squadron of Zeros lending a hand like the Italian Macchis did? I guess they were too occupied with China at the time). Even till the end the 109 remained among the shortest range fighters. However it was also always among the fastest climbing too. It could bunt into a negative 'g' dive and escape in the early war years due to fuel injection leaving Spits and Yaks in the dust. Speeds were reportedly survived up to 570 mph but much over 440 was not recommended due to such heavy controls (this high speed stiffness was so of both the Bf 109 and the A6M Zero, the principal 2 Axis fighters, during the whole war). When this advantage was finally countered by heavy US fighters, it could switch to slow horizontal turns close-in and out-dogfight them (unless it had those wing-cannon boots). Stall recovery was much superior to the Fw 190. The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the mount of so many of the world's leading aces. Like Erich Hartmann with 352 kills in just the last 2 years of the war - when his foes had the upper hand. The Bf 109K-4 version had the twin cowl 13mm MGs upgraded to 15mm MG151 Mauser cannons and the MK108 30mm hub cannon overcoming it's tendency to jam or the slower but more powerful MK103 30mm. 4823 ft/min. was the initial climb rate and level speeds of 452 mph were reached in the Kurfurst. But at high altitudes handling could get squirrelly at such speeds. Endurance even with drop tanks was within 700 miles. Landing accidents was another huge drawback. The wartime production was upwards of 30,000 (perhaps 35 or 36,000 counting postwar) - impressive considering the bomber raids on the factories. One of the greatest fighters of WW2!

I thought the same thing at the beginning,but there´s a czech Bf-109 copy,and this one was used by IAF.
http://www.aviastar.org/air/czech/avia_s-199.php

I believe this aircraft took the World speed record away from The Heinkel 100 about 2 weeks after the Heinkel set the record. The Bf109 was about 10 KPH faster. The Heinkel was actually designed to replace the bf109 but after the 109 won the International speed record, the Luftwaffe kept the bf 109 for operational service.

what is the version of this three view drawing
especially the wing ??

the BF109Z hasnt been mentioned, a bit tike the twin mustang but with a 109, i think a few were built but not many.

the war was in 1948 + it was the first line for "almost" half a year. during that time almost all of them were shoot down or crashed, they were replaced with British Spitfires

My wifes Grandfather Erhardt Schneider flew with the famous JG-52 Staffel 7 under Erich Hartman in a BF109G-6. He ended His flight career with 127 kills mostly over the Eastern front. He said the Bf109 always brought him back, handled like a dream and the tough Sturmovics were the biggest challenges he faced like shooting a wildswine with a bb gun.He went to work for Lufthansa later after the war.

Max.speed for this BF 109g-6 is 640km/h. the number above is for g-6/r-6, which has two extra 20 mm cannons housed under wings.

Ironically, the 109 was also the first-line fighter of the fledgling Israeli Air Force when the Palastine Mandate ended in 1947 and the War of Independence took place.

DID YOU KNOW THE LAST BF 109 WERE RETIRED FROM THE MILITARY SERVICES IN 1977, THE AIRCRAFT WAS THE SPANISH BF 109 ( HISPANO HA 1112 BUCHON )