German fighters and training aircrafts

[Wayne Little]

Nice pics.

 

[johnbr]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

Real nice...!

 

[johnbr]

 

[nuuumannn]

A few misleading and factually incorrect statements in the text on the Bf 109 here, such as the following:

C-2 was an experimental version with an engine-mounted machine gun.

The Bf 109C-2 was never built and was a project only. The centre mounted engine gun is subject to many myths. Again, the following:

Only very limited numbers of the E-2 variant were built, for which the V20 prototype served as basis. It was armed with two wing mounted, and one engine mounted Motorkanone MG FF cannon, which gave considerable trouble in service, as well as two synchronized MG 17s cowl machineguns.

A prototype might have been fitted with the gun as the Emil was intended to have been so fitted, hence the hole in the spinner, but none were put into production with it. The first production Bf 109 to be fitted with the engine mounted gun was the Bf 109F.

 

[johnbr]