maxum96 wrote:
What engine is the 109 in the video clip using? To my novice ears sounded either like a Merlin or a Allison.
Not many of us have heard a DB in a Messerschmitt, but that's what it sounds like. It's a Daimler Benz, and that 'whistle' is distinctive. NOT a Merlin or Allison.
Griffonvp293 wrote:
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Griffonvp293 wrote:
Connery wrote:
Doesn't that one have an original DB engine in it?
I got this from the Luftwaffe Annex via another youtube video:
"On October 12, 1997 the last
German built, Daimler-Benz engined Bf 109 crashed while trying to make an emergency landing after developing engine problems at the Duxford Autumn Air Show. The pilot, Strike Command C-in-C Sir John Allison survived unscathed but the same cannot be said for Black 6. As the pictures show, Black 6 suffered significant damage and at present it's future is undecided though restoration to at least static display is almost guaranteed.
Black 6 was completing what was to be it's last flight to be permitted by the British Ministry Of Defence."
'Black 6' is now statically preserved and on show at the RAF Museum, Hendon. It has nothing to do with the aircraft in the film clip above, which is a Hispano Buchon (Spanish 109 with a Merlin engine) fitted with a Daimler Benz engine - so it's not a 'German built original', but, for the purposes of the video, is an undetectable difference. Reg is D-FMBB, and it was operated by whatever Messerchmitt's descendant company is called this week.
HTH.
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That must take a special breed of pilot to land on a grass strip like that with the 109's narrow landing gear. My "you know what" was puckering just watching that first landing! 
