That model of ME-109 the G4 series is my favorite design as a distinctive fighter aircraft and it shows its slick design. The ME-109 is no#1 favorite fighter aircraft.
It's explained that it was a recognition aid, similar to the bright colors painted on the numbers, cowlings, and spinners used to identify units. Official painting instructions from 1944 refer to it as an identification aid. Another common explanation is that they were intended to throw off the aim of enemy gunners, though this is commonly dismissed as myth.
You can tell immediately where this airshow is, where post WWII conditions imposed on Germany by the allies, specifically the UK and USA, dictated that no more Swastikas were to be displayed. So Hakenkreuze in Deutschland have been "verboten" ever since. Nowdays the US acts as though those "rules" are something contrived by Germany. All I can say to that is, just more typical "Yankee Bullshit", which is of course what they're best known for. Can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with BS.
just because there was a swstika on the tail of these aircraft did'nt mean the pilots who flew them were all pro nazi's. Im sure some of these pilots would of been disgusted with what nazism stood for, and some of these men would absolutely been against the nazi party... they just joined the luftwaffe for the sake of pride for their country, not to mention that they were appauled by hitler and the fasciast nazi party
As cool as it is to see a Bf-109 in flying condition, I'm just as pleased to see what was apparently 3(!) Hurricanes in the background, also in flying condition:D
@acepilot1997 I've never, ever seen a Mustang painted like this. This is authentic German camouflage and there were several different variations, depending on the particular Nazi campaign the plane was involved in.
While this aircraft still existed as Buchon airframe, it was painted to look like a Mustang for the movie "Patton", complete with a fake belly scoop. Search for pictures.
I understand the history of the aircraft, but the scheme shown here with the RLM-ish grey top and sky bottom, spiral spinner, and Mediterranean white wingtips and white theater band on the fuselage, are certainly not what one would find on a Mustang.
Sorry, I'm having trouble understanding why there is confusion on the paint. Photos from the Patton film set show this Buchon with a fake belly scoop and painted in the standard OD green with D-day stripes, which is consistent with wartime Mustangs. The current paint on the Me109 is a generic Luftwaffe scheme since EADS stated that they not wish to represent a specific pilot or aircraft.
@Treetop64 No! I said that I found it ironic that this warbird was painted to look like a mustang and had a fake air scoop attached to the belly for a movie. It says in the description in Paragraph 2 near the bottom.
It is simply the most effective aircraft in history. It has fought against everything during the whole war and could beat it, especially in greater hights. But with the H variants the potential of the design was exceeded. No WW2 pilot has underrated the prospects of the BF109 in dogfight. Also the most successful fighter pilot ever has flown a BF109.
Leave the political stories guys, it is a machine but a great one.
My favorite aircraft and this one is a stunning example.
Let's face it though, this aircraft is cursed. Best to put it up on permanent static display before it has its next mishap and burns to ashes.
These 109's just don't handle well on the ground and pilots unaware of the starboard dip upon takeoff due to the great torque of the DB605 are libel to crash on takeoff.
More of these were lost to takeoff and landing accidents than to combat.
Do history a favor and preserve it in a museum forever...
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hmmm - I can see everyone getting over WW2 (except the Jews of the world) and being aircraft enthusiasts together - but it's a bit off-putting to see the war marking still painted on, these are civilian aircraft now - re-enacting the terrible war seems in bad taste somehow -- at least there's no swastika on the tail, I can take the iron cross - a German loves Germany, that's natural
@SupernalOne The aircraft are displayed in their historical context I personally would like to see the swastika displayed as that would be historically accurate. Banning a symbol only makes the ideology behind it more interesting for the wrong reasons. The swastika was an ancient symbol, It remains widely used in Indian Religions to this day specifically in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, primarily as a sacred symbol of good luck.
sure, tho the nazi swastika was distinct in being reversed and tilted -
You're younger than me, maybe the hatefullness of the 3rd Reich didn't get to you as much - I was in Normandy two years ago, the beaches & war museums, and the cemetaries & mausoleums make it more real - I admire the German technology, but continue to spurn the ideology that used it for a war of conquest - sort of a point of honor: I don't forgive evil, ever - even by displaying a swastika, except on a war trophy
@SupernalOne I completely agree with you the war was evil and destroyed so many lives but the Nazi’s had to be stopped. The German aviation technology of the time, in many ways was a marvel. That is what I am trying to celebrate here, these thoroughbred flying machines.
yeah, these birds totally rock, I must say - wish I could fly one -
there's something about war in the air that's less ugly than infantry & tank engagements, less grim than battleship shoot-outs - flying itself is such a wonderful thing, and of course there's that "knights of the air" mystique - & the fine machines: I can't choose between Me109 & FW190 as the ultimate German fighter, both are too good (tho I lean to the FW) - cheers
@SupernalOne Your snip about Jews was both supremely tasteless and wholly unnecessary. We'll see how you feel if someone slowly and gleefully murders your entire family. Until then, you have no basis to reference Jews. What a smug, arrogant troglodyte you are.
No, I mean it, I wasn't being snotty or facetious - if I were Jewish I sure wouldn't forget the Holocaust - it's like the last stand at Masada 2000 years ago, there's a lesson in survival there: learn the warning signs, defend your people and culture, be ready for it, don't let it happen again - seems only natural - If I were Jewish I wouldn't delight in German warbirds painted with their original swastikas. Would you?
O Gott Leute, hört das mit den politischen Kommentaren denn nie auf??? Ist jeder Deutsche automatisch ein Nazi?? Ist jeder VW den ein Hitlerauto? Ich kanns echt nicht mehr hören!!
Ich freue mich einfach an dem schönen DB-Sound und sehe die Maschinen gerne in der Luft, da gehören sie einfach hin.....
Ach ja, die Maschine hier ist eigentlich ein Umbau aus einer spanischen Bouchon ....also kein Naziflugzeug
Good enough to purchase this airplane, along with 2 other flying Me109Gs and a replica Me262, which EADS flies and maintains regularly. The Willy Messerschmitt Museum is part of EADS.
when you erase history, you forget history, when you forget history, you repeat history. leave the fucking swastikas on it.
goreziad 7 hours ago
That model of ME-109 the G4 series is my favorite design as a distinctive fighter aircraft and it shows its slick design. The ME-109 is no#1 favorite fighter aircraft.
SuperFallschirmjager 5 days ago
does anybody know the point of the spiral spinner, other than looking awesome obviously?
elementx9 1 week ago
@elementx9
It's explained that it was a recognition aid, similar to the bright colors painted on the numbers, cowlings, and spinners used to identify units. Official painting instructions from 1944 refer to it as an identification aid. Another common explanation is that they were intended to throw off the aim of enemy gunners, though this is commonly dismissed as myth.
FiveCentsPlease 1 week ago
Why are british planes so ugly?
haltnsabbelstfu 2 weeks ago
You can tell immediately where this airshow is, where post WWII conditions imposed on Germany by the allies, specifically the UK and USA, dictated that no more Swastikas were to be displayed. So Hakenkreuze in Deutschland have been "verboten" ever since. Nowdays the US acts as though those "rules" are something contrived by Germany. All I can say to that is, just more typical "Yankee Bullshit", which is of course what they're best known for. Can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with BS.
TheMuffdivr 3 weeks ago
just because there was a swstika on the tail of these aircraft did'nt mean the pilots who flew them were all pro nazi's. Im sure some of these pilots would of been disgusted with what nazism stood for, and some of these men would absolutely been against the nazi party... they just joined the luftwaffe for the sake of pride for their country, not to mention that they were appauled by hitler and the fasciast nazi party
oscarthegrouch68 3 weeks ago
Thing is...109´s look beautiful!
pauloratm 4 weeks ago
does it still fly?
roaringwaterbay 1 month ago in playlist Aircraft of the Luftwaffe
@roaringwaterbay
Yes, based at the Messerschmitt Museum in Germany.
FiveCentsPlease 1 month ago
A stiletto......beautiful.
Panzertruppen1 1 month ago
As cool as it is to see a Bf-109 in flying condition, I'm just as pleased to see what was apparently 3(!) Hurricanes in the background, also in flying condition:D
Zajuts149 1 month ago
格好いい！
205hamasen 1 month ago
Original Daimler Benz engine?
MrJp990 2 months ago
@MrJp990 DB605 ;)
Marry christmas
Lionforever1860 2 months ago
@Lionforever1860 Thanks for the information, and thanks for the Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you
MrJp990 2 months ago
I find it Ironic that this 109 was repainted to look like a mustang.
acepilot1997 3 months ago
@acepilot1997 I've never, ever seen a Mustang painted like this. This is authentic German camouflage and there were several different variations, depending on the particular Nazi campaign the plane was involved in.
SenorSpode 3 months ago
@SenorSpode No. Read the description, Paragraph 2.
acepilot1997 3 months ago
@acepilot1997 It says zero about paint, just the ventral scoop.
SenorSpode 3 months ago
@acepilot1997
Really? What Mustang have you seen that was ever painted like this?
Treetop64 2 months ago
@Treetop64
While this aircraft still existed as Buchon airframe, it was painted to look like a Mustang for the movie "Patton", complete with a fake belly scoop. Search for pictures.
FiveCentsPlease 1 month ago
@FiveCentsPlease
I understand the history of the aircraft, but the scheme shown here with the RLM-ish grey top and sky bottom, spiral spinner, and Mediterranean white wingtips and white theater band on the fuselage, are certainly not what one would find on a Mustang.
Treetop64 1 month ago
@Treetop64
Sorry, I'm having trouble understanding why there is confusion on the paint. Photos from the Patton film set show this Buchon with a fake belly scoop and painted in the standard OD green with D-day stripes, which is consistent with wartime Mustangs. The current paint on the Me109 is a generic Luftwaffe scheme since EADS stated that they not wish to represent a specific pilot or aircraft.
FiveCentsPlease 1 month ago
@FiveCentsPlease
No worries. On going back to look at acepilot1997's post again I realize I may have misinterpreted it.
Treetop64 1 month ago
@Treetop64 No! I said that I found it ironic that this warbird was painted to look like a mustang and had a fake air scoop attached to the belly for a movie. It says in the description in Paragraph 2 near the bottom.
acepilot1997 2 weeks ago
awesome warbird, my favorite WW2 aircraft although the K version for me is the ultimate model.
Hypernova1231 3 months ago
What a beautiful Plane, thats all that counts. We were lucky they didn't win!
gsg5master 3 months ago
It is simply the most effective aircraft in history. It has fought against everything during the whole war and could beat it, especially in greater hights. But with the H variants the potential of the design was exceeded. No WW2 pilot has underrated the prospects of the BF109 in dogfight. Also the most successful fighter pilot ever has flown a BF109.
Leave the political stories guys, it is a machine but a great one.
conzura 4 months ago
Thank you so much for posting. That is a beautiful plane
MichaelCasanovaMusic 4 months ago
My favorite aircraft and this one is a stunning example.
Let's face it though, this aircraft is cursed. Best to put it up on permanent static display before it has its next mishap and burns to ashes.
These 109's just don't handle well on the ground and pilots unaware of the starboard dip upon takeoff due to the great torque of the DB605 are libel to crash on takeoff.
More of these were lost to takeoff and landing accidents than to combat.
Do history a favor and preserve it in a museum forever...
DanOblacksmith 4 months ago
They look great in original livery
jonakiwz 4 months ago
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hmmm - I can see everyone getting over WW2 (except the Jews of the world) and being aircraft enthusiasts together - but it's a bit off-putting to see the war marking still painted on, these are civilian aircraft now - re-enacting the terrible war seems in bad taste somehow -- at least there's no swastika on the tail, I can take the iron cross - a German loves Germany, that's natural
SupernalOne 5 months ago
@SupernalOne The aircraft are displayed in their historical context I personally would like to see the swastika displayed as that would be historically accurate. Banning a symbol only makes the ideology behind it more interesting for the wrong reasons. The swastika was an ancient symbol, It remains widely used in Indian Religions to this day specifically in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, primarily as a sacred symbol of good luck.
auldm 5 months ago 22
@auldm
sure, tho the nazi swastika was distinct in being reversed and tilted -
You're younger than me, maybe the hatefullness of the 3rd Reich didn't get to you as much - I was in Normandy two years ago, the beaches & war museums, and the cemetaries & mausoleums make it more real - I admire the German technology, but continue to spurn the ideology that used it for a war of conquest - sort of a point of honor: I don't forgive evil, ever - even by displaying a swastika, except on a war trophy
SupernalOne 5 months ago
@SupernalOne I completely agree with you the war was evil and destroyed so many lives but the Nazi’s had to be stopped. The German aviation technology of the time, in many ways was a marvel. That is what I am trying to celebrate here, these thoroughbred flying machines.
auldm 5 months ago
@auldm
yeah, these birds totally rock, I must say - wish I could fly one -
there's something about war in the air that's less ugly than infantry & tank engagements, less grim than battleship shoot-outs - flying itself is such a wonderful thing, and of course there's that "knights of the air" mystique - & the fine machines: I can't choose between Me109 & FW190 as the ultimate German fighter, both are too good (tho I lean to the FW) - cheers
SupernalOne 5 months ago
@SupernalOne Your snip about Jews was both supremely tasteless and wholly unnecessary. We'll see how you feel if someone slowly and gleefully murders your entire family. Until then, you have no basis to reference Jews. What a smug, arrogant troglodyte you are.
SenorSpode 3 months ago
@SenorSpode
No, I mean it, I wasn't being snotty or facetious - if I were Jewish I sure wouldn't forget the Holocaust - it's like the last stand at Masada 2000 years ago, there's a lesson in survival there: learn the warning signs, defend your people and culture, be ready for it, don't let it happen again - seems only natural - If I were Jewish I wouldn't delight in German warbirds painted with their original swastikas. Would you?
SupernalOne 3 months ago
A classical. Beautiful plane.
Samjapa 5 months ago
O Gott Leute, hört das mit den politischen Kommentaren denn nie auf??? Ist jeder Deutsche automatisch ein Nazi?? Ist jeder VW den ein Hitlerauto? Ich kanns echt nicht mehr hören!!
Ich freue mich einfach an dem schönen DB-Sound und sehe die Maschinen gerne in der Luft, da gehören sie einfach hin.....
Ach ja, die Maschine hier ist eigentlich ein Umbau aus einer spanischen Bouchon ....also kein Naziflugzeug
andi67sa 6 months ago 4
@andi67sa Maschinen haben nicht politische Sichten. Sie tun nur, was dort wünschen erarbeitet.
auldm 5 months ago 2
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andi67sa 3 months ago in playlist Favoriten von andi67sa
swartse manne now wear navy!!! als goot!!
wulfiewulff 8 months ago
2 crashes(one of them really serious) and yet it still flies, thats what i call devotion from the owners.
PanterausfG 9 months ago
Wonder how EADS feels about having its name printed on nazi aircraft...
bambinonero 10 months ago
@bambinonero
Good enough to purchase this airplane, along with 2 other flying Me109Gs and a replica Me262, which EADS flies and maintains regularly. The Willy Messerschmitt Museum is part of EADS.
FiveCentsPlease 10 months ago
@bambinonero
Wonder how EADS feels about having its name printed on nazi aircraft...
A good commercial hehe ?
And its a German aircraft, would you call Mig29 a commie aircraft ?
I doubt it......
PanterausfG 9 months ago
@bambinonero
That's like saying "Wonder how Grumman feels about having it's name printed on a Klan aircraft..."
Not every German was a Nazi, dude.
Treetop64 9 months ago 7
OK, I'll take it!
thegoosebrain 11 months ago
Wow, a racing thoroughbred and she looks it. If I was that Zuckerberg guy THAT is what I'd be doing on the weekends! Flying THAT.
PotatoGunsRule 11 months ago
beautiful plane.
goreziad 11 months ago
It looks awesome.
IIJG27Rich 1 year ago
Very nice filming!!!
Bogey71 1 year ago
great
well done
Basti6814 1 year ago
A very good video and a good description of the aircraft in the video-description. Thumbs up!
megatwingo 1 year ago
Sounds like this aircraft has had a rough life, but i'm glad it still exists, looks and sounds great now!
moparjim63 1 year ago
so awesome awww
devxc 1 year ago
GROSS-AR-TIG!!!
HOCHACHTUNG VOR BEGABTEN FLUGZEUGINGENIEURE -
HERRN THEO CRONEIS UND WILLY MESSERSCHMIITT !
Ich gratuliere auch den Herren,die die Rekonstruktion gemeistert haben.
Gute Arbeit: ) *****
Wo ist der Clip aufgenommen worden?
Mfg und Happy landing!Wunsch aus Ungarn.
hanaippon 1 year ago