The Best Bf - 109 Variant ?

[I./JG53_lud13]

Bf-109 G-14 entered service on the western front starting in July 1944.

Bf-109 G-10 entered service close to K-4 (slightly after first K-4s came into service) in around November 1944.

Bf-109 K-4 entered service in October 1944.


G-14 was using DB605AM engine (meaning DB605A engine with MW-50 system) and using B4 fuel - 87 octane. DB605A is used on G-1 all the way up to G-14.

G-6/AS uses DB605AS engine and G-14/AS uses DB605ASM engine; meanind DB605AS + MW-50 system

G-10 K-4 were using both DB605DB and DB605DC engines (sometimes these engines are also called DB605DBM and DB605DCM because they both use MW-50 boost system). Both of them are the same engine except DB605 DB is "DB605D" engine configured for B4 fuel giving 1800HP (and hence the term DB605DB) and DB605DC engine is "DB605D" engine configured for C3 fuel. DB605DC engine gave 2000HP, C3 I believe was 100 octane fuel.

Mind you DB605D engine was first produced in 1942 but had some techinal difficulties with pressure and reliability so it was delayed into service until fall 1944.

One more thing G-14 is basically G-6 Late with MW50 system.

The only difference between G-6 Early and G-6 Late is that G-6 Late uses the streamlined canopy called "Earla Haube" and high tail unit and this makes it slightly more (about 10km/h) faster than G-6 Early. G-6 Late also has new pilot head protection armour plate and cocpit canopy called Erla or unoficialy "Galland Panzer"

For me personaly 109s came like this:
Bf 109G-2
Bf 109G-10
Bf 109F-4
Bf 109K-4 etc...

 

[MP-Willow]

Ok. Thanks Lanc. Dose anyone like the early 109s other then Lanc and I?

 

[JCS]

My favorite is the E also, but I like the F's and G's too.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

the E's dead shexy *sean connery voice*

 

[Gemhorse]

Yeah, I like the 'E', and I believe the 'G's were good...I don't think I could get into those wing slots they all had though, but there's no doubt there were pilots who got the absolute best out of the 109...definately liked the look of the 'E' model though, square tips n' all....

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

and you've got to remember the wing loading of the G was very high............

 

[lesofprimus]

And how many Russians did Hartmann kill in the 109G?????

 

[MP-Willow]

Mr. Conorry, (Mr. Bond) and a bf 109! WEll that can work. But "dead sexey?" I would say the Spitfire was a bit more sexy.

 

[lesofprimus]

I agree with u you.. The Spit, in any variation, was sexier than the 109...

 

[JCS]

I have to go with the 109 for looks but if I had a choice of flying either one I'd choose the spitfire mostly because of the horrible short range of the 109..

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

many planes were/are dead shexy..................

 

[lesofprimus]

And there were many planes, that when they were shipped to a new unit, the pilots would look at them and say::

"My God Almighty... We have to fly these against the Bf-109/G-12 ????"

Russian pilots, upon learning they had to fly the Aircobra, after they were proved worthless over the skies of Britian...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

but look at the swordfish, people crying out for a squadron of spitfires would look at wonder at the sight of stringbags flying round...............

 

[lesofprimus]

Yea, wondering how the hell those things could still be flying after all those years....

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

but it was still a wonderfull sight, and the fact that they're still flying is amazing..................

 

[lesofprimus]

Sure, a wonderful sight, as long as you didnt have to fly combat in one.....

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

actually they weren't bad, they were manouverable enough to keep the fighters off during flight and their low speed often made pilots overshoot when on their run, bloddy cold though.................

 

[lesofprimus]

No doubt about the coldness... All Biplanes for the most part are more agile than monplanes because of their slower speed....

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

and their bigger controll surfaces (primarily the fact they have double the arolons (i can't spell))

 

[lesofprimus]

ailerons...