Bf 109G-10 Erla ProfiPACK edition No other aircraft is so intimately connected with rise and fall of the German Luftwaffe during the WWII like the Messerschmitt Bf 109. It became the true workhorse of the war... The evolution ofthis type outlived the era in which it was designed. The Bf 109%5 bore the brunt of Luftiafle duties from the opening battles of Nazi Germany through to its Final downta AAs progressive as possible The history of the BI 109 begins with the requirement LA. 1432/33 issued by Reich Ministry of Aviation (RLM) in late March 1933, It called for the development of asingle-engined monoplane fighter. Proposals were submitted by Arado, Heinkel. Focke-Wulf and Bayerische Flugzeugwerke. Te design bureau ofthe ast-mentioned company was led by is technica director Willy Messerschmitl, who was riding @ wave of popularity based on the success of his liaison aircraft, the Bf 108. Messerschmitt’ goal was to create an aircraft with the best possible performance for the specified weight and size. Qver the subsequent months, several arototypes were bul, thal served first and foremost in development flights and further modifications, The aircraft was relatively small, and compared to the prevailing trends ofthe time, sported several quite revolutionary Features suchas low wing design, retractabielanding gear wing with a thin airfoil, wing slats landing flaps, weapons firing through the propeller hub, and so en. Even the enclosed eeckpit and the method of the airframe design were not very common just four years prior to the beginning of the Second World War. At its conception, the Bt 109 was a very promising asset despite some powerplant troubles, These were solved by the introduction of the DB 60 This engine, together with its extrapolated development DB 405, 's umbilically connected to the success of the BI 109. These two- raw, twelve-cyiinder inverted V engines powered several tenths af thousands of 109s in over 25 versions and variants From Spanish War to the Reich Defence The first combat use of BY 109 occurred during Spanish Civil War, where three developmental BY 1095 were deployed in December 1936, The main reason of revealing the madern fighter to the world was quite down-to-earth: To validate its abilities in modern aerial combat. Shorly thereafter, production aircraft in the form of the Bf 1098-1 began to reach 2/88, the Legion Condor, The desire af Germany to demonstrate its aerial prowess to potential foes was advanced further in international sport meets. The triumphs. attaine in Zurich in the summer of 1937 were complemented several months later by grabbing the speed record of 379.63 mph (610.95 kin/h). In very short order, the progressive developments presented by the C, D and E versions appeared, Despite this, the delivery of the aircraft to comaat units did nat sustain a rate that was desired by military brass. Even by August 1998 the BF 109 accounted for less than half ef the 643 fran Line fighters in service, The later months saw an increase in these rates. By the time of the invasion of Poland (which saw the participation of only a lille more than 200 airerat) the Luftwaffe possessed the best fighter produced in continental Europe, With both a qualitative and quantitative edvantage, the fighter wing of the Luftwaffe entered the Polish campaign, Blitzkrieg against the West, and the Battle for France. With ane foot in the door that was the English Channel, the Luftwaffe embarked on the altacks on Britain in the summer months of 1940. Hera, the first weakness ofthe Bt 109 emerged: The inability to carry drop tanks that would have enabled the type to effectively escort bombers to England. This was one of the factors, responsible forthe defeat of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain (periences gained in 1940 led to the development af the F version prior tothe spring of 1941. The elegance ofthe Bf109 crested with the ‘Friedrich’, Following a largely defensive stance over the Channel and northern France, the Sf 109F took an a more offensive role in Operation Barbarossa in the east, and in northern Africa In later duties with the "Jagdwaffe” during the second phase of the war in the east, and in the “Defence of the Reich’ from 1943 to 1945, the 8 109s served inthe form of the G version, followed by the K. Even fit was clear the development of the Bf 109 was depleted by the fend of the war, the aircraft was stil able to keep pace with the foes, thal i encountered, The kit BF1096-10 Erta The BF 109G (Gustav) was a direct successor to the BF 109F. The main aiference was the more powerful 03 605 engine, which was, a further development of the 0B 601. There were several versions, and subversions of the Bt 1096 and its development was reaching the new stage with the Bt 109K (Kurfurst) variant. For Kurfrst, new 108 4050 unit was prepared, however, this ane was also used for an interim solution that was developed atthe Erla factory. It was based fn the airframe of the 6-4 design, which appeared in July 1944 as 6-6 replacement, incorporating all the improvements, Daliveries of the DB 6050M ané OMO engines began during summer of 1944 the main proguction version was the DB 69808 using B4 gasoline with the MWD system, and the DB 60S0C, using 9%6-octane C3 gasoline and without the MW50 system, Production ofthe Bf 1906-10 ran from the autumn of 1944, A canopy with simplified Eriahaube framing and a tall rudder became standard as well. The Bf 1096-10 was produced at the plants of three companies: Erla Leipzig, Messerschmitt AG Regensburg and Wiener Neustacter Flugzeugwerke. The Eria aircraft difered from the examples of other twa manufacturers, as they sported different engine cowling, It lacked the blister farings forward and below of the exhaust stacks, These were necessitated by enlarged engine crankcase and different oil lines. But the Erla factory designed new cowlings, while WNF and Mil Reg. applied the fairings to the original ones. 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