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Barn Find Messerschmitt Starts After Being Stored For 45 Years

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Amazing story of warbirds in a barn. Some one of a kind in the world. (planelopnik.kinja.com) さらに...

Herb Harney

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Ric Wernicke 6 年前 6

A Dutch air Ace was recounting his last battle of WWII for a British TV programme,

"These two Fokker's were coming up fast from below, and two other two Fokker's were coming straight at me."

The host interrupted to say that a Fokker is a type of German aircraft.

The Ace continued "Ja, but these Fokker's were flying Messerschmitt's!"

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joel wiley 6 年前 0

I heard it was the only WWI Swedish war ace on the Merv Griffen show long before George Carlin's 7 dirty words.. LOL anyway.

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Roger Hallett 6 年前 3

Pity about the music backing. Surely they could have faded it while the Merlin started up.

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Scott Campbell 6 年前 2

5000' + per minute climb !! WOW

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744pnf 6 年前 1

A different bird, but...

"A lightly loaded B58 Hustler would climb at nearly 46,000 ft/min (235 m/s)

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Jeffrey Babey 6 年前 2

Great find! Great story!

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Stefan Sobol 6 年前 2

These are not really barn find airplanes. They were used in the movie "Battle of Britain" made in ~1969. The company that supplied and operated the planes for the movie received these airplanes in lieu of payment. They've been in a hanger for about 40 years. Why the owner did not do anything with them is unknown.

These are actually Spanish built versions of the 109. They are Hispano HA-1112 (or HA-1109). An interesting fact is the Spanish airplanes had Merlin engines in them. This is why the cowling, oil cooler, and exhaust stacks are different from the Messerschmitt 109s.

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John Taylor 6 年前 1

Your spot on....I was at Moron AB North of Seville in the '60s. An active sqdn of 109s as well as German designed tri-motor tranaports was at Tablada airfield nearer to town....and all flew regularly!

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Joseph Brown 6 年前 1

About 30 years ago I worked for a FAR 135 freight hauler based at KOAK. The CAF had a hanger down the ramp from us. Used to love watching the old warbirds come to life. Thanks for posting.

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WALLACE24 6 年前 1

Amazing the batteries were still up. :-/

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Gordon Shenkle 6 年前 1

The -109 uses a flywheel starter...no batteries. Hand crank the flywheel and turn the switch...

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WALLACE24 6 年前 1

Herr Shenkle, you got me there. Here I was making a funny about batteries and there are none. Duh!

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Gordon Shenkle 6 年前 1

Well, we were both somewhat wrong. The original -109 had a flywheel starter. These move -109s had surplus Merlins installed and they did have batteries. But I suspect that the battery was replaced as well as the engines gone over before the start was attempted.

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joel wiley 6 年前 1

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
A bird in the barn is worth a cool mil.

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Ken Hardy 6 年前 1

All the German 109's had Daimler Benz engines with fuel injection, they could fly inverted while the Rolls Merlin had a carburetor that ran dry if inverted for very long. This was told to me by one of the few German fighter pilots to survive the War that I got to know when I represented his German company back in the 70's and 80's. he is still alive today living in Hamburg.

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