A little bigger than the 109 two-seater. How much weight are we adding? Armament is more for 2x7.9 fixed and 1x7.9 for the gunner/radio and let's say 150 kg for that second crew member (his weight, chair, equipment, oxygen, etc.)? how much fuel .. say 300l or more? What kind of long distance radio ... 50-70 kg more?
Let's say we loaded approx. 500-600 kg more with our gross 109. Visually, cut behind the firewall, moved nose (engine) forward 50 cm, extended middle 100 cm and lower the back of the tail (of course it must be double like it was in me 110
). Wings in size between one and the other?
Of course, Willi is on all early constructions (109,110,210,410...) put the coolers on the wing, so I don't see that it would be different, but ... where is room for additional fuel - if it does go in the wing's roots, then the wheels and radiators have to be moved to the outside, so there is a problem for the MG FF (witch can't go to fuselage) , besides the biggest problem is the MG FF (drums with 60 grenades
that that second guy replaced in 110 or Fw 189). So that is our biggest problem...
Ok then let's move on from weapons... Lets DB make room for gun to fire through the propeller on the 601 (and that oil reservoir can be somewhere else), find some stronger 23-25-30 mm gun and say that 1x25 mm + 4x7.9 enough. Those 4x7.9 can probably be situated (along with the radiator, wheels and tank) at the wing because we need room for that big gun a to be little more aerodynamic, but I would also move the oil cooler at the wing to reduce the cross-section of the fuselage.
An alternative solution would be a cooler on the chin, visually extended towards the rear (as on the D3A) and there were be room to accommodate the fuel (or bomb bay
).
And the performance ... 109 with 500 kg and two 300 l tanks (it flew in that configuration only as the FiSk 199 ) and even then there was a little bit of power in the game.
What would it actually serve? Like fighter I don't think so, but as light fighter bomber maybe.
As a wiff idea and for drawing / making a model it sounds great, but I think that the RL performance would be too bad to be of real combat value.
But...
(admittedly, this belongs to a slightly earlier thread)
there is a blueprint 109 (and it was probably also a model) on which they tried the wing configuration for the Bf 110.
And here's the idea.... in the story
And so DB saw that there would be money and invested its own capital in a new factory, and DB 600s started to come out like clockwork... And the Me 109D got those great new engines as planned. And it put the Junkers concern in a problem (what about those extra 800 Jumo 210). And then some petty engineer from Junkers came up with the idea ... look, the Fw 189 is faster than the Me 109 on our engine, let alone the Me 110, let's sell Willy that he is a worse designer than Kurt ... and that's how the Me 109.5 was born. The first use showed that...
So our Me 109.5 looks like this - we cut off the Me 109 on the firewall, push the pilot forward, 4x7.9 go into the tip of the nose, place 2xMG FF so that the pilot can possibly change those problematic drums (or use something better with more ammo), behind the pilot and in the center of gravity there is now room for 4 times larger tank. We also have to enlarge / make the tail heavier, so let's say we use something like the 209/309 tail and extend the fuselage a little more (like the Fw 190D). Wings - the outer part are the same bf 109 wings, but without wheels, radiators and weapons, then nacelles with Jumo 210, chin radiator and landing gear, and a straight wing extension of the same section from the nacelle to the wing root, say 1,5 m length. The performance (except the range) cannot possibly be better than the me 109G (quantity of
) but if it is 1940 ..