Adler69
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Post by Adler69 on Feb 18, 2010 3:11:05 GMT -5
This is the only pic i have been able to find after months of research about this rare bird , it's a photo of the ME109-V21 The V21 was built in 1939 using a BMW 139 engine ( basically a copy of the Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp ) and a bubble canopy similar to the canopy of the ME262. Me-109V21 A second model was built in 1940 the Me- 109X , it was similar to the V21 except that it used the BMW 801 instead of the BMW 139 , the BMW 801 was the same engine that the FW190 used and after the RLM flight tested the Me-109X and seeing how the FW-190 was performing so good , they saw no need to having 2 fighters with the same engine and so Messerschmitt dropped the project all together. Me-109X
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Post by hairy apple on Feb 18, 2010 7:11:14 GMT -5
Wow, I had no idea they had ever messed with the idea of a radial engine in the 109. Very interesting. In the last set of drawings it's very clear that it's using the same engine as the FW190. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by Adler69 on Feb 18, 2010 12:38:25 GMT -5
The 109X has a very P47 look to it , a smaller scale P47at that. The Me109 frame seems to have been used as a test bed for a lot of weird experiments in engine , armament and structural designs and placement. I could start a whole bunch more thread about them.
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Post by sir veilance on Feb 18, 2010 19:00:56 GMT -5
To me the V21 looks like a Mitsubishi Zero or a Nakajima "OSCAR" with that canopy! I have a 1/48th model of The BF-109 V21 that I haven't gotten around to build yet, along with a hundred others Here is the box art! LF Models also makes a kit of BF- 109X. Here is the box art for that one.
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Post by volkssturm on Feb 18, 2010 20:48:49 GMT -5
Thanks. I've never come across that one before.
It kind of mirrors in reverse the Curtis P36/P40. The P36, sold overseas as the H75, was a radial engine design. The same basic airframe was kept and adapted to a V12 water cooled Allison to become the P-40. The H75 did fairly well in French hands before the fall, but was already becoming obsolescent.
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Post by Gordak on Feb 25, 2010 22:24:24 GMT -5
If you think about it, had Germany gotten serious about aircraft carriers, this might have been the choice fighter to escort all those Ju87-Cs
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Post by Adler69 on Feb 25, 2010 23:16:59 GMT -5
If you think about it, had Germany gotten serious about aircraft carriers, this might have been the choice fighter to escort all those Ju87-Cs They would have had to rework the landing gear , that was one of the weak points of the 109 , aircraft landings would have been disastrous (?) .
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