messerschmitt me 209
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You notice in the first picture you can see no evidence of the panel lines and rivets you see in the other pictures.
They must have used some kind of putty on the fuselage to get a perfectly smooth finish for the world speed record flights
They must have used some kind of putty on the fuselage to get a perfectly smooth finish for the world speed record flights
Thorlifter
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Holy hell what an ugly plane!
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V1 (D-INJR) was the record setter and it had it's fuselage smoothed and sealed for it's trials.
I think it's remains are in a Polish aviation museum.
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Cool shots!
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Went there many years ago. Unfortunately the Messerschmitt was in store and I didn't get to see it. It is one of the survivors from the Deutsches Luftfahrt Sammlung in Berlin, which was burned out during a bombing raid in 1943. A number of airframes, including the Messerschmitt survived and were taken to Poland, where they ended up at the museum. The survivors were mainly Great War airframes, but somewhat remarkably, Ernst Udet's Curtiss Hawk, in which he flew aerobatics at the 1936 Berlin Olympics was one of them.
Polish Aviation Museum Cracow
