Heinz Knoke received a beautiful brand-new 109 fresh off the assembly line, his faithful mechanic Arndt waxed it in the sun before takeoff. Knoke said it surely added 10 mph to its top speed. But it was totally destroyed on its very 1st-mission. As Knoke walked back onto the airfield carrying his parachute draped over his shoulders, Arndt began weeping crying out "Oh no not that lovely Gustav!!!" This finely restored craft made me think of Knoke's bird and that day. What a beauty...
As an aircraft mechanic who did a lot of sheetmetal, this was very interesting to me. I always wondered about rivet sizing and didn't even think about the countersink being different. Creating the formers into the fuselage panels is ingenious! I never knew that. Working with "O" can be tough.
That type of thing is what we like to try and go over in our channel. There are plenty of channels and videos out there about the planes and there use but not so many about the nuts and bolts of them
@@MilitaryArmamentsCompany thats not true, last i check a couple years ago there were somewhere around 3-5 fully historical airworthy 109s that still fly. maybe the only bf109 G-6, but as for the only 109 full stop, thats not correct.
@@davidrhodes7655 Paul Allen's museum has an airworthy Bf-109E-4. The museum does not have a G series, surprising since several have been for sale over the years and the museum could have obtained one.
These belong in the air. Its the responsibility of the owner and pilots to ensure they are in competent, qualified hands in the air and on the ground. The risk with the 109 is constant in regard to damaging the engine core, as there are no replacements.
AMAZING video!! I'm an Aircraft Mechanic and I LOVE seeing these types of videos!! I can't wait to see more video's about some of the Tanks and armored vehicles you guy's are working on! Much respect and support from Yuma, AZ. 👍👍
I remember putting together rear fuse section for a 109 at Airframe assemblies. We had the ply former blocks well explained here I to marvelled at its Simple construction compared to the Spitfire fuse .Great to see it fully restored.
Hispano were not forbidden from using DB605s.They just couldn't get any, due to the factories being bombed flat. But there were a surplus of RR Merlin 500s post war both new and lightly used. 25 G models were supplied to Spain during the war, but without engines, tails or other important components which were promised shortly after but never delivered. ISTRC the Spanish did try a Hispano-Suiza powerplant but with limited success as the HS engine was not as developed as the DB605 and didn't have a supercharger so high altitude performance was poor.
I recently did a wilderness hike in Lapland, where 109 F made forced landing during ww2 time. Small pieces still around. Most of it collected at -70's by airforce. Thing is that guy who moved to that remote place at 50's, used parts of the plane to build his hut.
+@Kar1heikk1 Many of the wrecks left in situ are documented. There is pretty extensive list for Norway, and I think most are protected heritage crash locations.
I had the pleasure seeing it when it was in a workshop in Melbourne Australia.The then owner let me get up close and and I spent a few hours going over it and took many photos.The engine was sitting on a custom stand.A rare site and a privilege for me to see a 109 up close down here in Australia.
Fantastic restoration. The narrow gear track and high pressure tires caused many ground accidents during the war. But the 109 was kept in production because of the ability to manhandle the plane during assembly.
Wow love both G6 and G10's. I have pics of those Luftwaffe junkyards with all of the 109's and a few K4's just laying around after the war and think, don't scrap those you idiots.
Beautiful beautiful restoration job.. as a model builder as he mentioned about paint scheme, the camouflage is well done also, pretty dang accurate.. so many restored Luftwaffe aircraft do not have the best paint jobs
Brilliant restoration. It's so nice to see the effort put into getting it as it would have been, especially the paint job. The rlm 74/75/76 looks so authentic. Congratulations to all involved.
When they were discussing the radiators, I recall reading a Luftwaffe ace's memoir where he mentions retracting the radiators prior to combat to reduce drag on his 109.
Mike omg you've done it again. I have your book on the Photo recon P51 restoration and the detail and quality of these aircraft is incredible. Thanks for this, damn who doesn't love the sound of a real DB 605 or Merlin? 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thankyou Anthony. Yes Scott has become a legend in front of the camera. All his interviews are unscripted. He just knows what to ask and how to make the conversation flow.
Retired airline former FMJ. Love this kind of vid. Shared experience stuff like the DB605 overheating on the ground due the radiator cooling capability in contemporary ground op timespans longer that its wartime start, point into wind and go ground running envelope is gold.
i am so glad that there are people who can do such a fantastic job of authentic restoration as this beautiful bf 109, for me this ia an icon ww2 German aviation engineering, i hate real war and killing but i love some the machines that emerged from that dreadful conflict. So for me it has now become a beautiful example German engineering aesthetic, love to model this plane too, but in my view there better German planes that became available such as the FW 190 series, one Oof Kurt Tanks brilliant designs, but i love so many Luftwaffe aircraft if not for their looks alone. what a great vid explaining all the wonderful engineering features involved in this aircraft. i really enjoyed this outstanding video.. i learnt more about the 109 in this video than all the previous ones put together, and it was all relevant and very interesting, thank you so much,
Thankyou for the kind words and great input. We enjoy going further into depth then any one previous. If you enjoy planes check out our B29 video, or German Engineering we currently have our Panzer IV series coming each week.
I think most German props were a wood/resin composite and as you say, 'sacrificial' by late war? Looking at downed aircraft wrecks that would seem to be the case.
Captured 109's had spray bars installed in front of the radiators. Tanks were installed in the fuselage to hold water to cool the radiators to give extra ground running time. There are pictures showing this.
I'm so often amazed and impressed at the length that American classic aircraft restorers will go to bring historic aircraft to life. What an incredible achievement by the Midwest Aero team and their German partners. I recently attended the Battle of Britain Airshow at IWM Duxford in the UK where the sky was full of beautiful Rolls Royce Merlins and couldn't help wishing they might have been accompanied by that unique Daimler-Benz combination of deep tone and high pitched supercharger whine. The clever production engineering Willi Messerschmitt built into the Bf-109 was one of the reasons they were relatively fast and cheap to manufacture, a fact that rarely gets mentioned. The details described and shown in closeup in this video make excellent documentation of an especially important historic aircraft. The Messerschmitt Bf-109 was the first of the 1940s era European fighter planes, flying before the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire, it served in every European theatre with distinction and was produced in larger numbers than any other fighter in history. It produced more aces and arguably was responsible for more confirmed victories than any other fighter type, achievements unlikely to be surpassed with newer fighter designs today becoming pilotless. It was not the most advanced fighter by war's end but I would suggest this mean looking little plane was the most successful fighter in history. One question I will ask goes to the very meaning of 'restoration'. The Germans suffered from a chronic lack of strategic metals like chromium, molybdenum, vanadium, tin and others needed to make high temperature alloys required for high performance engines like these. This resulted in short lives for exhaust valves and engine bearings with consequent more intensive maintenance and logistic problems than for similar Allied engines who could source materials from the entire British Empire and the United States. It also made the engines very sensitive to variations in fuel composition. Did the restoration of this DB-605 include the use of the original less-than-ideal metals or were these replaced by newly fabricated components made from more appropriate alloys which the Germans would have used, had the right metals been available to them? It would make sense to do this from the perspective of engine life and maintenance, but then it becomes a little less authentic. Thanks again to Midwest Aero for making it possible for future generations to see and hear this important piece of historical aviation fly and to Restoration Passion for this video, which I will link to others likely to be interested. First class!
Wow incredible input! Thankyou for the kind words, we really appreciate our loyal viewers. One thing i will say after interviewing and getting to know the team there is this: There is definitely a disconnect between wrench turning restoration experts, and people who are knowledgeable in the historic specifics of one particular area, such as your subject above. The guys i interviewed restored the plane and could tell you about every phase they worked on, they did however only have a basic understanding of German engineering specifics of that time and industry related questions from the war were better left to a historian in the field. Additionally, as they did most of the restoration, there were specific sections, such as engine rebuild that i believe were sent to Germany to get the work done. If anyone could answer your question it may be those guys. All i recall was they were around Munich somewhere. Thankyou again, if you haven't already, please subscribe and be sure to check out our B29 in depth video, we have some very exciting aviation content coming ahead early next year. Hint Hint.... the real Memphis Belle. Scott
+@tsegulin There is an airworthy Bf-109E now kept at Biggin Hill, but I don't know how often it flies. There are also a decent number of project Bf-109 aircraft in the UK that will reemerge at some point. A lot of those were wrecks salvaged from Russia when it was easy to export them.
Absolutely beautiful I'm British so the spitfire does it for me but what a menacing little aeroplane the 109 is looks so modern the engineering is incredible
Great video! G-6 is my favorite model of the Bf 109 and Finland used plenty of this very model during the continuation war to fight off the soviet air forces.
We would like to thank you for being subscribed for over a year! So thank you! I can see you actively commenting on other videos of ours so thank you for that too! They sure are a very interesting airplane and even on the basic level how this plane looks is how I always picture WWII airplans should look. Its just got that stance about it if you know what I mean.
Thank You that has to be by far the best BF109 video I have ever seen very informative and video wise detail views being a MBz tech and dealing with many 1950’s Daimler-Benz construction Amazing there process did not changed much!
Incredible story!..Little note of criticism:All about the 109,but little or no info about the type,which is a"G"or "Gustav"by the way..Nevertheless,inspiring to say the least!
Thankyou for the input. Unfortunately we have very little background in Aircraft, it was tough knowing what questions to ask. Stay tuned for more on the B29 Bomber!
25:35 A little history fact concerning the timing to shoot between the propeller blades. In 1948 the newly founded state of Israel bought 5 Avia S-199, which were essentially Me109 with a Jumo 211 Motor built from leftovers in Czechoslovakia after the war. They managed to stop the baffled egyptian army with their unexpected fighters and thereby saved Israel but lost at least 2 planes through mistiming between the propellers and the guns. But still, the main fighter of the Nazi Luftwaffe in the end had its share in providing safety for the people who the Nazis seeked to eliminate. Nice turn in my eyes.
The radiators need to have Freon or basic nitrogen coolent cans affixed to their front and remotely controlled to spray onto the radiators when needed on taxing. Please tell them.There is also a product called WATER WETTER that makes radiators work FAR better.
Great Interview ! - Glad to see you do some aircraft restorations now as well. That is really great. I do restore airplanes in Alaska. - Thanks for posting and Best Regards from Anchorage, Alaska! ( BTW I am in Oshkosh every year, too!)
I've often wondered just how many WWII aero engines were whisked away into private homes. Come on thousands came cashing down or destroyed on the ground yet they are rare to find. Also it wouldn't surprise me if DB still have the means to reproduce their engines, it's one heck of an engine (series) and their marine diesels to.
+@anthonyxuereb792 Both DB and BMW have very much distanced themselves from their WW2 history but do recognize their technical aviation engines. I suspect they would strongly enforce their intellectual property rights if anyone attempted to manufacture new engines. Rolls Royce refused to license new engines to an aerospace company wanting to start a production of new Merlins.
@@FiveCentsPlease That's all very interesting but doesn't answer my interest in the missing aero engines not to mention thousands of other war material.
@@anthonyxuereb792 I can think of several examples of former Luftwaffe restorations that are using engines from private sources. Bf-109 "FM+BB" uses an DB-605 that was found in Italy after the owner thought he would get into trouble and bricked it up behind a wall. Bf-109E W.Nr. 3523 is awaiting restoration in CA and the owners found a rare DB-601 still in the crate. In general, the Allied occupation was very systematic with disarmament and everything was scrapped. Scrap metal merchants were very busy in the 1950s cleaning up war material. Some items that were still in good condition were repurposed and used, for example the French operated some Fw-190s, a Ju-88 and the rare He-274 prototype until the 1950s. The French manufactured and used Jumo 213 engines until the 1960s. The Czechs were still making Avia S-199s with Jumo 211 engines. They also had big warehouse of DB-605 engines, which caught fire and burned around 1947 I think. Behind the Iron Curtain, Stalin did not accept Marshal Plan assistance for his economy and ordered everything scrapped for raw materials for his new Soviet military. So to answer your question, most of this material was either used or systematically scrapped. Some museums and private collectors had engines and other items but they are still rare.
thx for sharing, can it be, that it is the really last flying original bf109 ? most other still flying models are buchons. awesome job, please let her be still intact without any damage
It could be, we have had reports of one or two other originals however not flying in the last few years. Mike mentioned a 109 called Black 6, an all original that was flying around in the 1990's.
@@MilitaryArmamentsCompany, unfortunately Black 6 crashed on landing at Duxford air museum in 1997. It was the plane's last flight before it was due to be permanently grounded and a senior RAF Officer was allowed to take it for it's final flight. Attempting to land he overshot the runway, landed in a crop field and flipped it over forwards onto its back. I believe it was restored (again), but it doesn't fly any more.
Yes you are correct, referred to as the "Buchon". They do however look slightly different. They use a different engine to the Germans with their Mercedes DB. The DB engine is mounted upside down or inverted. The Buchons had an Upright engine. Looking at the 2 side by side you can see the big difference. There are 2 or 3 real German 109's flying now, one of them being the one in this video.
Ive seen that the way the DB inverted v12s were machined, that theres really nobody who knows how to do that anymore, and the machinery to properly make them is long gone. Strange to think even with todays tech, we can't copy something made nearly 100 years ago.
@@HarborLockRoad The metallurgy specifications, casting process and heat treatments would have to be reinvented to manufacture them. Some of those records survive. And you would have to recreate nearly all of the tooling. But these engines have thousands of parts that would have to be manufactured to correct specifications to be flight certified. Also I'm pretty sure that Mercedes would still own the patents and licensing for the engine and would not allow manufacturing of whole engines.
How much Me108 was also in the Me109? Supposedly quite a number of various parts taken from commandeered Taifuns was able to be used to help keeping battle damaged 109's in the air towards the last months of action in WW11.
Thankyou for the feedback, glad you enjoyed it. Unfortunately this was filmed at an airshow, we could do nothing about the live band in the background, we felt lucky just to be invited behind the barrier for some exclusive filming.
So you took a unique time capsule, used 10% of its parts at most for a complete rebuild, threw the rest away, and now you risk this "thing" on air shows... congratulations for vadalizing a stunning piece of history that belonged to a museum.... instead of just going the extra few feet and build a replica, as it was done so many times before ...
Thankyou. Those guys did a amazing job. It does fly occasionally. We are not connected to that organization, you would need to check their schedule. We saw it on display at Oshkosh EAA 2022.
@@MilitaryArmamentsCompany Its a real pleasure to see. So much work and so much love to german engineering and no reservations against the germans are heard. I think, you have the nicer 109s than we. Good luck and no incidents in all time! P.S. in the city next to us were the crankshafts for the DB 605 built. Day and night, 24 h the whole week, sundays incl. (South Germany, Swabia)
40:38 That cockpit is STUNNING. All glassware windexed, and every panel so carefully painted. Its such a treat for the eyes to see. But yeah probably not the way a new 109 looked in the 40s lol! But a wonderful tribute to an amazing plane
Heinz Knoke received a beautiful brand-new 109 fresh off the assembly line, his faithful mechanic Arndt waxed it in the sun before takeoff. Knoke said it surely added 10 mph to its top speed. But it was totally destroyed on its very 1st-mission. As Knoke walked back onto the airfield carrying his parachute draped over his shoulders, Arndt began weeping crying out "Oh no not that lovely Gustav!!!" This finely restored craft made me think of Knoke's bird and that day. What a beauty...
Thankyou, we are happy to bring such an amazing aircraft to the channel.
I flew for the Fuhur was such a good book
@@brandona5042 😆😆😆
Huge credit to these guys getting this beautiful piece of flying history restored it's a beautiful airplane
Glad you enjoyed the video.
My favourite WWII bird!
And I appreciate the fact that you didn't self-censor and left that swastika where it should be.
Thankyou for the kind words.
Yes, I agree those German warbirds without the Historic Swastika is PC and denying History! Great job!
As an aircraft mechanic who did a lot of sheetmetal, this was very interesting to me. I always wondered about rivet sizing and didn't even think about the countersink being different. Creating the formers into the fuselage panels is ingenious! I never knew that. Working with "O" can be tough.
That type of thing is what we like to try and go over in our channel. There are plenty of channels and videos out there about the planes and there use but not so many about the nuts and bolts of them
I bet that even the Messerschmitt foundation doesn't have such a perfectly restored Bf109.
We are told this is currently the only top to bottom airworthy 109.
@@MilitaryArmamentsCompany thats not true, last i check a couple years ago there were somewhere around 3-5 fully historical airworthy 109s that still fly. maybe the only bf109 G-6, but as for the only 109 full stop, thats not correct.
Paul Allen s fighter heritage also has a G4 beautiful it is@@MilitaryArmamentsCompany
@@davidrhodes7655 Paul Allen's museum has an airworthy Bf-109E-4. The museum does not have a G series, surprising since several have been for sale over the years and the museum could have obtained one.
Me 109the most beautiful airplaine ever
Having the swastika adds much to the sense of realism, without endorsing a repugnant and criminal political ideology.
The most beautiful fighter in the WW2
Totally agree
That was absolutely fantastic. Many thanks to Mike for the comprehensive deep-dive!!
Glad you enjoyed it! And definitely a good guy
Great Great Work Guys Thx Greetings from Germany
Thankyou for watching! Welcome from Germany. You may also like our Big 6 part series on the Panzer 4.
This plane just looks just so perfect i wouldn't want to risk flying it and put inside a huge armoured lass case and preserve it forever.
There are actually now more Flying 109s in private hands then any time previous. Real ones with the DB 605, not the post war model.
These belong in the air. Its the responsibility of the owner and pilots to ensure they are in competent, qualified hands in the air and on the ground. The risk with the 109 is constant in regard to damaging the engine core, as there are no replacements.
It's So Uniquely Beautiful I Cannot See Where The Science Leaves Off And The Art Begins ...
Agreed
My mouth open, my spine tingled. What a job, marvellous job OMG... My favourite warbird.
Glad you enjoyed see her in detail.
AMAZING video!! I'm an Aircraft Mechanic and I LOVE seeing these types of videos!! I can't wait to see more video's about some of the Tanks and armored vehicles you guy's are working on! Much respect and support from Yuma, AZ. 👍👍
More to come! We have a couple of things in the works. Biggest thing is simply finding time to edit. This job keeps us busy as is
I remember putting together rear fuse section for a 109 at Airframe assemblies. We had the ply former blocks well explained here I to marvelled at its Simple construction compared to the Spitfire fuse .Great to see it fully restored.
Einfach ausgezeichnet!
Hispano were not forbidden from using DB605s.They just couldn't get any, due to the factories being bombed flat. But there were a surplus of RR Merlin 500s post war both new and lightly used. 25 G models were supplied to Spain during the war, but without engines, tails or other important components which were promised shortly after but never delivered. ISTRC the Spanish did try a Hispano-Suiza powerplant but with limited success as the HS engine was not as developed as the DB605 and didn't have a supercharger so high altitude performance was poor.
I recently did a wilderness hike in Lapland, where 109 F made forced landing during ww2 time. Small pieces still around. Most of it collected at -70's by airforce.
Thing is that guy who moved to that remote place at 50's, used parts of the plane to build his hut.
+@Kar1heikk1 Many of the wrecks left in situ are documented. There is pretty extensive list for Norway, and I think most are protected heritage crash locations.
I had the pleasure seeing it when it was in a workshop in Melbourne Australia.The then owner let me get up close and and I spent a few hours going over it and took many photos.The engine was sitting on a custom stand.A rare site and a privilege for me to see a 109 up close down here in Australia.
Happy to hear you got to see the finished result up close. We are watching the Aussie B24 closely to see how its going.
Outstanding restoration job. I am speechless. Nice detail view on the DB605 and wheel wells.
Better than when it was first built amazing !
Absolutely! First rate work.
Fantastic restoration. The narrow gear track and high pressure tires caused many ground accidents during the war. But the 109 was kept in production because of the ability to manhandle the plane during assembly.
Fantastic, my father flew G6 and G10, too. Great Job! 👍
Some incredible history behind all these planes and its even more interesting when you know someone who is directly tied to that history
Wow love both G6 and G10's. I have pics of those Luftwaffe junkyards with all of the 109's and a few K4's just laying around after the war and think, don't scrap those you idiots.
Incredibly good job! 👍
Thank you for a great interview!
Glad you enjoyed it! And thank you for letting us know you like this type of content
Beautiful beautiful restoration job.. as a model builder as he mentioned about paint scheme, the camouflage is well done also, pretty dang accurate.. so many restored Luftwaffe aircraft do not have the best paint jobs
Definitely one of the best restorations we have ever seen!
Brilliant restoration. It's so nice to see the effort put into getting it as it would have been, especially the paint job. The rlm 74/75/76 looks so authentic. Congratulations to all involved.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you very much for keeping History alive and congratulations for your amazing work! It’s just FANTASTIC! All the best for you guys!!!!!!!
Thank you very much!
Beautiful 109! Amazing job!! One of my absolute favorite Aircraft!!
Brilliant job of restoring this plane it's a credit to you all well done...
Absolutely Incredible!
20:05 I believe the drop tank is marked "Not a Bomb!". Good to know.
When they were discussing the radiators, I recall reading a Luftwaffe ace's memoir where he mentions retracting the radiators prior to combat to reduce drag on his 109.
Thank you for sharing this. I saw the airplane at Oshkosh and it stood out as being an amazing restoration.
Thankyou for watching, glad you enjoyed. Be sure to check out our B29 video in Depth, we covers "Doc" at Osh as well.
Magnificent restoration.
Good video, thanks for making it.
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A great walkaround/Q&A video and also the restoration. Thanks so much! for publishing this
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching.
Mike omg you've done it again. I have your book on the Photo recon P51 restoration and the detail and quality of these aircraft is incredible. Thanks for this, damn who doesn't love the sound of a real DB 605 or Merlin? 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Mike is a great guy, a wealth of knowledge.
One of the best, if not the best video I've seen on the 109. Thank you so much!
Thankyou for the kind words. We did our best on this one. Stay tuned for In Depth of B29.
Awesome video, been waiting for something like that. Thanks a lot for sharing! Hopefully there will be onboard videos of this plane some day...
That would be awesome! Just to ride in it would be an amazing experience
Wow, what a beautiful job and incredible amount of work. Great video Scott, lots of great detail and info you don't normally see on TH-cam.
Thankyou Anthony. Yes Scott has become a legend in front of the camera. All his interviews are unscripted. He just knows what to ask and how to make the conversation flow.
Thanks for posting . You have done a great job .
Thanks for watching!
Retired airline former FMJ. Love this kind of vid. Shared experience stuff like the DB605 overheating on the ground due the radiator cooling capability in contemporary ground op timespans longer that its wartime start, point into wind and go ground running envelope is gold.
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a brilliant restoration. Looks fantastic. Great job.
wunderbar!
A fabulous interview in all respects, beautifully shot too.
Thankyou for your kind words. Stay tuned for B29 in depth.
amazing i want that plane more than you think
Dont we all.
OMG what a legacy you got!!!!!!!!
Thank You, the plane is not ours, we were just lucky to be able to cover it.
Wow this thing is mint! Very nice job!
They did an incredible job!
i am so glad that there are people who can do such a fantastic job of authentic restoration as this beautiful bf 109, for me this ia an icon ww2 German aviation engineering, i hate real war and killing but i love some the machines that emerged from that dreadful conflict. So for me it has now become a beautiful example German engineering aesthetic, love to model this plane too, but in my view there better German planes that became available such as the FW 190 series, one Oof Kurt Tanks brilliant designs, but i love so many Luftwaffe aircraft if not for their looks alone. what a great vid explaining all the wonderful engineering features involved in this aircraft. i really enjoyed this outstanding video.. i learnt more about the 109 in this video than all the previous ones put together, and it was all relevant and very interesting, thank you so much,
Thankyou for the kind words and great input. We enjoy going further into depth then any one previous. If you enjoy planes check out our B29 video, or German Engineering we currently have our Panzer IV series coming each week.
I think most German props were a wood/resin composite and as you say, 'sacrificial' by late war? Looking at downed aircraft wrecks that would seem to be the case.
Wunderlich! what a beautiful restoration
Wunderlich????? Wunderbar..... fabelhaft.....
Captured 109's had spray bars installed in front of the radiators. Tanks were installed in the fuselage to hold water to cool the radiators to give extra ground running time. There are pictures showing this.
The mid to late war models were supposed to have water tanks behind the fuel tank for water injection into the fuel to boost horse power also.
Классный аппарат,до сих пор им восхищаюсь .
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Incredible video, def learned a thing or two in here.
Thats the aim of the game! I appreciate letting us know this video is useful
Great design, symbol german ww2 luftwaffe
Willy probably was proud
Thankyou, shes a beautiful plane.
What a fantastic piece of history, thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
Получилось идеально, красивый самолет. Спасибо.
What´s the beauty. Although my grand mom unit fought with them, I do love the shape and the machine.
Outstanding vid guys 🙂
I'm so often amazed and impressed at the length that American classic aircraft restorers will go to bring historic aircraft to life.
What an incredible achievement by the Midwest Aero team and their German partners. I recently attended the Battle of Britain Airshow at IWM Duxford in the UK where the sky was full of beautiful Rolls Royce Merlins and couldn't help wishing they might have been accompanied by that unique Daimler-Benz combination of deep tone and high pitched supercharger whine. The clever production engineering Willi Messerschmitt built into the Bf-109 was one of the reasons they were relatively fast and cheap to manufacture, a fact that rarely gets mentioned.
The details described and shown in closeup in this video make excellent documentation of an especially important historic aircraft.
The Messerschmitt Bf-109 was the first of the 1940s era European fighter planes, flying before the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire, it served in every European theatre with distinction and was produced in larger numbers than any other fighter in history. It produced more aces and arguably was responsible for more confirmed victories than any other fighter type, achievements unlikely to be surpassed with newer fighter designs today becoming pilotless. It was not the most advanced fighter by war's end but I would suggest this mean looking little plane was the most successful fighter in history.
One question I will ask goes to the very meaning of 'restoration'.
The Germans suffered from a chronic lack of strategic metals like chromium, molybdenum, vanadium, tin and others needed to make high temperature alloys required for high performance engines like these. This resulted in short lives for exhaust valves and engine bearings with consequent more intensive maintenance and logistic problems than for similar Allied engines who could source materials from the entire British Empire and the United States. It also made the engines very sensitive to variations in fuel composition. Did the restoration of this DB-605 include the use of the original less-than-ideal metals or were these replaced by newly fabricated components made from more appropriate alloys which the Germans would have used, had the right metals been available to them?
It would make sense to do this from the perspective of engine life and maintenance, but then it becomes a little less authentic.
Thanks again to Midwest Aero for making it possible for future generations to see and hear this important piece of historical aviation fly and to Restoration Passion for this video, which I will link to others likely to be interested. First class!
Wow incredible input! Thankyou for the kind words, we really appreciate our loyal viewers.
One thing i will say after interviewing and getting to know the team there is this:
There is definitely a disconnect between wrench turning restoration experts, and people who are knowledgeable in the historic specifics of one particular area, such as your subject above. The guys i interviewed restored the plane and could tell you about every phase they worked on, they did however only have a basic understanding of German engineering specifics of that time and industry related questions from the war were better left to a historian in the field. Additionally, as they did most of the restoration, there were specific sections, such as engine rebuild that i believe were sent to Germany to get the work done. If anyone could answer your question it may be those guys. All i recall was they were around Munich somewhere.
Thankyou again, if you haven't already, please subscribe and be sure to check out our B29 in depth video, we have some very exciting aviation content coming ahead early next year. Hint Hint.... the real Memphis Belle.
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+@tsegulin There is an airworthy Bf-109E now kept at Biggin Hill, but I don't know how often it flies. There are also a decent number of project Bf-109 aircraft in the UK that will reemerge at some point. A lot of those were wrecks salvaged from Russia when it was easy to export them.
Absolutely beautiful I'm British so the spitfire does it for me but what a menacing little aeroplane the 109 is looks so modern the engineering is incredible
Thankyou for watching. Maby one day we will get Spitfire done
I'd love to fly one.
Excellent work !
Une des plus belles restauration de 109 magnifique !bravo !
Great video! G-6 is my favorite model of the Bf 109 and Finland used plenty of this very model during the continuation war to fight off the soviet air forces.
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They sure are a very interesting airplane and even on the basic level how this plane looks is how I always picture WWII airplans should look. Its just got that stance about it if you know what I mean.
Excellent presentation. Liked, subscribed, and rang that bell.
Especially enjoyed the cameraman getting the pilot's view at 41:20
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Thank you I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
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Thank you both !
The best run through of a bf109 i've ever seen , i learned quite a bit !👍🏻
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Thank You that has to be by far the best BF109 video I have ever seen very informative and video wise detail views being a MBz tech and dealing with many 1950’s Daimler-Benz construction Amazing there process did not changed much!
Thankyou for the kind words, it has been one of our best so far. The 109 should not be cheated out of the spotlight. Stay tuned for the B29!
Awesome video! Love your work!!!
Thank you but they did all the work for this one, we just made the video
Great Interview! Thanks a lot
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Great great video.
If its got 2 greats it must be! Lol, thank you for the support!
🤩🤩🤩 I want a Messerchmitt for x- mas this year !!! 🤩🤩🤩
And probably Swedish iron in this thing. 😊
Realy interesting movie, 👍👍👍🇸🇪
Incredible story!..Little note of criticism:All about the 109,but little or no info about the type,which is a"G"or "Gustav"by the way..Nevertheless,inspiring to say the least!
Thankyou for the input. Unfortunately we have very little background in Aircraft, it was tough knowing what questions to ask. Stay tuned for more on the B29 Bomber!
Phenomenal! Simply speechless!
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I can see a huge smile on Adolf Gallands face
25:35 A little history fact concerning the timing to shoot between the propeller blades. In 1948 the newly founded state of Israel bought 5 Avia S-199, which were essentially Me109 with a Jumo 211 Motor built from leftovers in Czechoslovakia after the war. They managed to stop the baffled egyptian army with their unexpected fighters and thereby saved Israel but lost at least 2 planes through mistiming between the propellers and the guns. But still, the main fighter of the Nazi Luftwaffe in the end had its share in providing safety for the people who the Nazis seeked to eliminate. Nice turn in my eyes.
Interesting footnote. Thankyou for sharing. Perhaps one day we will get a closer look at the system and how it works.
Wow great Work, not many 109´s out there are able to fly.
Many thanks!
Stirrups on the rudder pedals ! Damn - Hang on !
@10:40 you could probably spray water into the engine while the plane is on the ground.
The radiators need to have Freon or basic nitrogen coolent cans affixed to their front and remotely controlled to spray onto the radiators when needed on taxing. Please tell them.There is also a product called WATER WETTER that makes radiators work FAR better.
Actually we have used Water Wetter in our tanks here at Battlefield Vegas but I will definitely pass it along next time we get in contact with them!
Great Interview ! - Glad to see you do some aircraft restorations now as well. That is really great. I do restore airplanes in Alaska. - Thanks for posting and Best Regards from Anchorage, Alaska! ( BTW I am in Oshkosh every year, too!)
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I've often wondered just how many WWII aero engines were whisked away into private homes. Come on thousands came cashing down or destroyed on the ground yet they are rare to find. Also it wouldn't surprise me if DB still have the means to reproduce their engines, it's one heck of an engine (series) and their marine diesels to.
+@anthonyxuereb792 Both DB and BMW have very much distanced themselves from their WW2 history but do recognize their technical aviation engines. I suspect they would strongly enforce their intellectual property rights if anyone attempted to manufacture new engines. Rolls Royce refused to license new engines to an aerospace company wanting to start a production of new Merlins.
@@FiveCentsPlease That's all very interesting but doesn't answer my interest in the missing aero engines not to mention thousands of
other war material.
@@anthonyxuereb792 I can think of several examples of former Luftwaffe restorations that are using engines from private sources. Bf-109 "FM+BB" uses an DB-605 that was found in Italy after the owner thought he would get into trouble and bricked it up behind a wall. Bf-109E W.Nr. 3523 is awaiting restoration in CA and the owners found a rare DB-601 still in the crate. In general, the Allied occupation was very systematic with disarmament and everything was scrapped. Scrap metal merchants were very busy in the 1950s cleaning up war material. Some items that were still in good condition were repurposed and used, for example the French operated some Fw-190s, a Ju-88 and the rare He-274 prototype until the 1950s. The French manufactured and used Jumo 213 engines until the 1960s. The Czechs were still making Avia S-199s with Jumo 211 engines. They also had big warehouse of DB-605 engines, which caught fire and burned around 1947 I think. Behind the Iron Curtain, Stalin did not accept Marshal Plan assistance for his economy and ordered everything scrapped for raw materials for his new Soviet military. So to answer your question, most of this material was either used or systematically scrapped. Some museums and private collectors had engines and other items but they are still rare.
thx for sharing, can it be, that it is the really last flying original bf109 ? most other still flying models are buchons. awesome job, please let her be still intact without any damage
It could be, we have had reports of one or two other originals however not flying in the last few years. Mike mentioned a 109 called Black 6, an all original that was flying around in the 1990's.
@@MilitaryArmamentsCompany, unfortunately Black 6 crashed on landing at Duxford air museum in 1997. It was the plane's last flight before it was due to be permanently grounded and a senior RAF Officer was allowed to take it for it's final flight.
Attempting to land he overshot the runway, landed in a crop field and flipped it over forwards onto its back.
I believe it was restored (again), but it doesn't fly any more.
An interesting note is that most of the bf 109s that fly are licensed production from around spain.
I think my memory isn't the best.
Yes you are correct, referred to as the "Buchon". They do however look slightly different. They use a different engine to the Germans with their Mercedes DB. The DB engine is mounted upside down or inverted. The Buchons had an Upright engine. Looking at the 2 side by side you can see the big difference. There are 2 or 3 real German 109's flying now, one of them being the one in this video.
U guys are GODS
We aim to please. Thankyou.
At leats the Esvástica....I mean Real History for over 18 years old!!!! One of my fav planes...in fact the G-10 and K-4 .
Great job Too bad original factory cant still build these
Ive seen that the way the DB inverted v12s were machined, that theres really nobody who knows how to do that anymore, and the machinery to properly make them is long gone. Strange to think even with todays tech, we can't copy something made nearly 100 years ago.
@@HarborLockRoad The metallurgy specifications, casting process and heat treatments would have to be reinvented to manufacture them. Some of those records survive. And you would have to recreate nearly all of the tooling. But these engines have thousands of parts that would have to be manufactured to correct specifications to be flight certified. Also I'm pretty sure that Mercedes would still own the patents and licensing for the engine and would not allow manufacturing of whole engines.
How much Me108 was also in the Me109? Supposedly quite a number of various parts taken from commandeered Taifuns was able to be used to help keeping battle damaged 109's in the air towards the last months of action in WW11.
That's definitely a question for the guys at midwest aero or a 109 subject matter expert.
Awesome!
Thank you! Cheers!
Very interesting, better without the music drowning everything out.
Thankyou for the feedback, glad you enjoyed it. Unfortunately this was filmed at an airshow, we could do nothing about the live band in the background, we felt lucky just to be invited behind the barrier for some exclusive filming.
Great Resto, Great Vid - well done.
Thanks for watching
An amazing achievement, sorry I missed it this year, will you be bringing it to Osh 23?
That would be a question for Midwest Aero. Here's hoping!
So you took a unique time capsule, used 10% of its parts at most for a complete rebuild, threw the rest away, and now you risk this "thing" on air shows... congratulations for vadalizing a stunning piece of history that belonged to a museum.... instead of just going the extra few feet and build a replica, as it was done so many times before ...
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Gerard ground loop - Call sign
Wow. Super impressive restoration. Is the aircraft on display somewhere, does it fly regularly ?
Thankyou. Those guys did a amazing job. It does fly occasionally. We are not connected to that organization, you would need to check their schedule. We saw it on display at Oshkosh EAA 2022.
+@techno9090 The plane went to a collector/museum in the San Antonio area.
Messerschmitt over America - Adolfs dream......she looks so mighty in the air - air scenes!
Ha! Interesting observation. Its a beautiful restoration job.
@@MilitaryArmamentsCompany Its a real pleasure to see. So much work and so much love to german engineering and no reservations against the germans are heard. I think, you have the nicer 109s than we. Good luck and no incidents in all time!
P.S. in the city next to us were the crankshafts for the DB 605 built. Day and night, 24 h the whole week, sundays incl. (South Germany, Swabia)
did Fokker invent the interrupter gear for firing through the propeller?
Dunno the name Roland Garros rings a bell
Could a blower be put in parallel to the radiator? Is there room?
Probably a far nicer 109 than anything they made during the war, ironically lol!
I'm sure that's true!
40:38 That cockpit is STUNNING. All glassware windexed, and every panel so carefully painted. Its such a treat for the eyes to see. But yeah probably not the way a new 109 looked in the 40s lol! But a wonderful tribute to an amazing plane
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