And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, April 16, 2017
British officials examining a belly-landed BF-109 E-7 “Emil”, Berkshire, September 1940, colorized.
Very few original Me 109's have been restored to airworthy. The give away is the low mounted exhaust stacks because the V-12 engines were inverted. This also allowed for the cannon firing through the prop hub. Most of the restored Me's you see are Hispanos with Hispanso engines running right side up, and the exhaust stacks up high, and a solid prop hub. However, Wikipedia does have a photo of an Hispano that was rebuilt in Germany to original configuration. And yeah, like a bat out of hell.
If I had that now, I'd fix it and fly it like a bat out of hell.
ReplyDeleteVery few original Me 109's have been restored to airworthy. The give away is the low mounted exhaust stacks because the V-12 engines were inverted. This also allowed for the cannon firing through the prop hub. Most of the restored Me's you see are Hispanos with Hispanso engines running right side up, and the exhaust stacks up high, and a solid prop hub. However, Wikipedia does have a photo of an Hispano that was rebuilt in Germany to original configuration. And yeah, like a bat out of hell.
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