Me-109 G10 Landing mishap at ILA 2008 in Berlin

[Dercommandingofficer]

A disgrace to see them erase history by removing the swastika.

[Brian79camino]

@Dercommandingofficer It has nothing to do with erasing history. The plane is what counts. During the war, Herman Goering found out that the wife of the commander of JG 53 was Jewish, as a punishment he made the whole geschwader remove their emblem from all their planes, in protest to this all the pilots stripped the swastikas from the tails of their 109s. Alot of the pilots weren't Nazis anyways, to me its just great to see a 109 flying again, the swastika doesn't matter.

[freakyflow]

Great plane of history sad to see it damaged Whats also sad is the muppets making 2 cent comments that has nothing to do with the video

[dangleberrie]

Beautiful plane, I hope it's flying again soon.

[FiveCentsPlease]

@dangleberrie

Repairs were finished in late 2010 after 2 years. It has new generic colors (similar to Red 7), but I haven't seen any pictures of it flying yet.

[WiredrawnMurder45]

Nonetheless, Hitler started losing his mind around 1943, by 44 he was totally delusional, and he went off the deep end in 45. And he was always a little batshit. I think to demonize him does us no good. If we only see Hitler as some unintelligent madman, we will never be able to understand the man and how he seduced or sedated an entire country, and led them to Gotterdaemmerueng. The Nazis rose because an entire country decided it would rather live in a happy lie, than a hard truth.

[DepakoteMeister]

The people on here from the US slagging off the Germans, do you know which country was the biggest exponent of eradicating inferior races pre-WWII and in fact was a sponsor of German research on the subject? Can you guess? Yup, the US...look it up!

[fluffy1931]

@DepakoteMeister hey dumbfuck. Look up the empires of europe and their colonization of the new world and Africa and add up the numbers of inferior races the Spanish and Portugal , English, Belgium, France even the Dutch who bankrolled the slave trade 16th and 17th centuries and they make the US look like lightweights.

pls gtfoh assclown.

[DepakoteMeister]

@fluffy1931

Can I have that in English? PMSL

[fluffy1931]

@fluffy1931 pls. gtfoh. assclown.

[Cavelson]

Can't belive... He broke the plane!

[Xiolablu3]

The pilot did well.

[bblando65]

@Xiolablu3

Indeed he did, just about the only inteliigent comment in here :)

[cyberOwwwOecho]

As the commentator said: Doesn't happen much, that was a close shave.

[Ciryatur]

Hi. Just wrote that cause many Germans experienced that when in they were in the USA, people had really stupid thoughts about Europe and Germany. Like: oh, you have running water in the house and real cars? You wear clothes like us but: do you have TV?

It's kinda sad, that they believe only the USA to be an industrial nation.

Whatever... I know that there are tons of stupid people who live their life only on the internet because they are not smart enough to cope with RL.

[Ciryatur]

Well, and Americans still believe they invented rockets...

Rocket engine, made in Germany

Airbags, made in Germany

Aspirin, made in Germany

Computers, made in Germany (Zuse Z3)

Diesel engine, made in Germany

Jet propulsion, made in Germany

TV, made in Germany

... I could go on like this because I just can't stand the ignorance of uninformed people who think they're sooo big. So, dear Americans, many things of your everyday life come from our country. Who would've guessed?

[MITCHWILD]

@Ciryatur Frank Whittle invented the Jet Engine, British.

And the T.V was another British invention, John Logi Baird. I could go on all night, but i will spare everyone.

[casualguy393]

@Ciryatur So, even with all those inventions, you guys are still not in the lead? WTF happened? Japan gave us Nintendo and sushi after we kicked their butts as well.

I'm just kidding though braddah. Not all of us Americans are stupid so don't stoop to that level. 1/2 the numbnutz on Youtube are just looking to troll. It's a losing battle so save your breath braddah ;)

[fluffy1931]

@Ciryatur who cares about rockets? The important thing was kicking nazi germany's ass sideways during ww2 and stationing troops in germany since end of 1945' until and beyond tomorrow and banging german shemales while driving on the autobahn too Nuremberg.

[Nukethelotofthem1]

@fluffy1931 They took some beating though didn't they ?

[4bestrAft]

@fluffy1931 ...you're a complete idiot...

[4bestrAft]

@Ciryatur ...and not to forget...it was a german scientist who got Neil Armstrong onto the moon...

[fluffy1931]

@4bestrAft ..,what about the space shuttle challenger that exploded? Can we get a refund from those german scientist, assclown.

[4bestrAft]

@fluffy1931 ...like i said...complete idiot...

[fluffy1931]

@4bestrAft ..,ok assclown.

[TheRocketSilo]

@fluffy1931 von braun designed the saturn V not the space shuttle ..and the space shuttle does not go to the moon ...einstein

[fluffy1931]

@TheRocketSilo nobody has gone to the moon in decades dude.Anybody care?

Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard is considered the father of modern rocket propulsion and Von Brauns said of Goddard: "His rockets...may have been rather crude by present-day standards, but they blazed the trail and incorporated many features used in our most modern rockets and space vehicles"...nazi fagtard

[pedrolegion]

@TheMaxwell777 IN, I ALREADY IT FOCK YOUI, DAY 05 MAY 1945, DAY OF ITS LOSS, NAZIS LOSING .

GOD BLESS AMERICA

YOU TUBE, MADE IN USA

FBI AND CIA, MADE IN USA..........................

[stuka87G2]

@pedrolegion USA, staat ohne kultur

[0xsamzax0]

Nicely landed for an emergency landing! Barely scratched it!

[carnage2681]

Where is the fukkin problem.......This is a typical german landing :D

[RomeoMadureira]

@777socal Ahahaha who knows? lol Actualy most german pilots were more scared of taking off or landing the this plane, than actualy beeing shot down.

[AviatikD1]

He didn't crash, the landing gear failed, not due to pilot error. It was a common occurrence of this type of aircraft, a design flaw, if you will. This type of landing incident was frequent, even more so on the rough landing areas during the war. The Focke-Wulf 190 had a wider undercarriage that opened inwards instead of the narrow track version of the Bf 109 due to the complaints of the pilots..

[EnterpriseXI]

was the plane repaired and flown again?

[FiveCentsPlease]

@EnterpriseXI

I believe it is still being repaired, with repairs to both the airframe and the engine.

[walperstyle]

Oh that damage is nothing. That Black Devil will be back up terrorizing the skies again.

[FiveCentsPlease]

@walperstyle

More damage than you would think. I've read the prop strike damaged the engine and the parts aren't easy to replace. The wings were removed for repairs as well.

[jimmyxx3]

I must say, a swastika looks pretty cool on the tail of a German fighter.

[johorridoh]

As a 12 year old, I knew a german WW2 pilot. He was still a nazi. 55 Million dead under this symbol. My life could have been so much better if my grandpa didn't have to die for this shit.Such as my grand uncle and so many others.

So please respect that this symbol is forbidden in Germany. There is far enough cause for that.

[jimmyxx3]

@johorridoh

Your full of shit, you really think we'd believe that!?

Not even the waffen ss were Nazi's, a nazi is the member of the NSDAP.

What, do you think if someone looked at a swastika they'd blow up or something?

There were very few Germans who actually listens to Hitlers crap, most of them fought for Germany, it's a pity that today they're known as Nazi's, rather then soldiers which they really are.

Learn to realize that all soldiers are soldier, not just the so called "good guys".

[johorridoh]

@jimmyxx3 Are you a german ? I am, and I know these people personalty.

The Waffen-SS was the division for members of the NSDAP. The were guards in the concentration camps und under the command of Heinrich Himmler. My grand uncle favoured the nazis and so did many others. The swastika was the symbol of the nazi party.

[johorridoh]

@jimmyxx3

The fess cross was the war sign for germany and is allowed today on historic items since it´s not related to the nazi party directly.

You seem not to have an idea of the sinister believes of the Nazis. They were anti Christian and believed in fake science. And a lot of Nazis that committed crimes lived unpunished all their life here. Only because of the cold war. Not all Germans were Nazis but enough to make it necessary to keep their symbols forbidden.

[Pupp3tOnAString]

Am I the only one who finds the lack of the swastika offensive? If Germany wants to remember the glory days of the Luftwaffe they should have to remember who they were flying for.

[EugenBaumann1]

No, actually I don't.

[jochen538]

Real shame about the damage to the 'schmitt, i'm sure its repairable. Main thing is no one got hurt! As they say 'any landing you can walk away from is a good one'!

Mit freundlichen gruss. Jochen.

[Tomcat165]

Nice vid,thx for uploading alto it's not a unrecovarable crash,they'll fix the gears and change the prop,touch here and there on the wing and it's good as new, and caz it's the G-10(from 44 or end of 43 not sure) it can easily called the Me but the Bf is as good as the other. ~S!~

[harrysor]

that Me-262 is awsome a bit sad about the Bf-109 though amazing plane

[adaorlando]

oohh shit this is very sad :( ...... the Bf109 can fly now??

[DiaMentor087]

Yikes! Good recovery by the pilot though.

[RomeoMadureira]

Guys about the swastika. Yes its really sad... its like... wtf? its part of history. No mater how many times people erase it. They wont change the past... it will allways be there. Any faction on any kind, should be respected in history. We just dont go on a book and take off the pages to be more good or bad. That's how it was good or bad. With good ideals or bad ideals... thats whats done. Point no more comment...

[pudransemarikas]

@RomeoMadureira good one i dont see the yanks hiding the enola gay and thats a real war crime

[grazyarnie]

@pudransemarikas

it always depends on the reasons of the fight. The swastika never was a german symbol....it was/is a pagan symbol and stood/stands for the sun and the birth. The Nazi swastika do differ from the original one like the Finns used it, and the Nazi swastika stood and stands for the Nazi ideology of Hitler, Himmler, Rosenberg and all other mystic believing idiots in the occult. The 109 is a wonderful engine, if we would combine it with a Nazi swastika it could be misinterpreted

[pudransemarikas]

well the swastika is part of history and this planes flew with it, its like flying a mig 15 without the red stars, its sad to see this new germans ashamed of their pilots and other war heroes you modern germans and im sad to say it, have no pride

[grazyarnie]

@pudransemarikas

well the germans can not feel pride when they remember the terror their NSDAP regime was responsible for. We do honor our soldiers but not without reflecting to the sufferings and the insanity followed with the SS into the conquered territories.

As I already stated, the germans can not feel pride when seeing the swastika, the main-symbol for Nazi terror against the jews and slavic folks. Later it was due to the swastika million germans were suffering...no swastika anymore!!

[pudransemarikas]

humm youre a jew aint you?? and what ss?? your grandpha was in the german army or in the camps then? waffen ss where soldiers fighting in the front mostly against russians so you cant talk about ss as a whole,, its all a matter of the media the swastika thing , romans killed far more poeple tru history and we dont see them as evil , just an empire

[grazyarnie]

@pudransemarikas

no I am no jew and if, it would doesnt matter. Both of my grandpas fought in the german Wehrmacht, not because they wanted, they fought because they had to. During the last days of the war my fathers uncle and his uncles wife were killed by the SS for ridiculous reasons. The romans did cruel things, yes, but they fought men against men. If You would have stated the Colosseum killings I would agree, they killed christians for the pleasure of masses. The KZ camps were different

[beowulf342000]

@pudransemarikas Don't forget Bock's Car, she nuked Nagasaki. My grandfather was slated to be on the 1946 invasion of the Japanese home islands. We were expecting one million casualties. The Japanese were expecting all of there citizens to die and we would have killed them all....without remorse or regret. Napalm, thermite, willie pete and HE with PT fuses. Mined harbors, mass starvation and a hundred combat divisions that were ready to go and could do the job. It would have been Saipan x 100

[pudransemarikas]

and and you feel proud of the killing of all those people eh? youre a good human being pal, as always its easy to face a smaller enemy ,you have never faced a real power alone pal,good luck when you meet the lord youre goona tell that when youre in front of him?im glad we nuked all those babies yeah sure

[fluffy1931]

@RomeoMadureira yeah. these ( faction?) = nazis did'nt tack yellow stars on people or establishments and those whacky concentration camps whatever,......?

[rakgitarmen]

@RomeoMadureira It's a part of your history that you are ashamed of. That's why it's forbidden.

[RomeoMadureira]

@rakgitarmen Not my history btw. As i am not german. But eventho it was a "shame"... it will allways be real.

[yamahonkawazuki]

@RomeoMadureira true. the swastika was used long before ht nazis got ahold of it. am wanting to say the native americans used it in a differnet form long beofre the nazis used it

[Mrxb0x]

I have a lockerz account with 1368 points on it

took for friggen ever to get all those points but my stupid mom won't let me keep it, so if someone wants to help me get some subscribers or something, PM me for a trade :D

[SenorSpode]

"Stupid mom"? If that is indeed the case, then the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Extremely poor form of you to insult your own mother, even if what she's doing is unreasonable. You don't have to like what she does, and it seems harsh indeed, but that's no reason to despise the womb you came from. Your own words condemn you.

[Mrxb0x]

Making a connection to other children in feeling a similar dislike of their parents as part of growing up is a good way to gain their trust to a small extent.

If I just say I'll give you enough points to buy a mac if you give me 10 subscribers you're not as quick to take the deal. It's a simple tactic to get more people to get me subscribers thinking they'll get a massive reward for it.

[phipsiguy1530]

The aircraft is a Bf 109, not a Me109. Any design before 1938 is designated Bf (e.g., Bf 108) for Bayerishe Flugzugwerke, and any design after is designated Me (e.g., Me 262) for Messerschmidt. There were 33,000 made, but most were destroyed in combat. That's why an original in flying condition (not the Spanish variant) is such a treat!

[dasSofa]

b.t.w. in Germany it`s forbitten to show the Swastika !

[dasSofa]

i will never know why are so many users write Me 109. ist a BF 109 !!!

[WTCTribute]

It was designed by Messerschmitt, and built by BF. Doesn't matter what you call it though. It was still a badass plane.

Sad to see that they took the Swastika off the tail though. History "correction" ftw.

[durchdiemitte]

the correct name is Bf 109.

i think there a rather many of this in good contition today more than 33.000 were build

[epicsr]

Nothing to worry about. There's nothing a German can't fix.

[RomeoMadureira]

That is sad, tho this was actualy a mechanical default, the major problem with the ME109 was when landing and taking off,because of the landing gear to close. If the pilot was good, it was not a problem. Actualy i heard in a documentary that most of the destroyed ME109 in ww2 was when landing or taking off, more then they got lost in the sky.

[TheBlitz1]

FOR SURE DUDE

bad luck.... the plane was pissed i bet...

[mattnd123]

cartwheel off the runway? go find out what cart wheeling is.

[r3dx79]

ohh its bad but not unfixable probably already flying again

[bigchiefmingingbolok]

its always a shame to see old warbirds crashing, i remember seeing a spitfire crash at RAF chivenor airday back in the early 90's, horrible. hope it gets back in the air

[tmeau]

Thanks for posting. The pilot did a fine job of landing this.

[skot66]

That damn landing gear.. Rote Sieben is okay, fortunately. Try landing it on a cement runway...almost impossible.

[xGRYFONx]

Yep, the Swastika has been a lucky charm for thousands of years and he wanted to be politically correct instead of historically correct. Thats him taught a lesson to remember for next time!... just kidding, i hope its been repaired and continues to fly for decades to come.

[smlemk42]

BF 109 are known to have problem with its landing gear and somewhat tempermental when flying... hence they switch to the more powerful and easier to fly FW-190. But either way, it was bad news for the allies bombers crew early on.

[23vin850]

I'm sure it will be back in service soon, many 109s were damaged in landing accidents during service. undercarriage not the aircrafts best feature.

[deltamike33]

Aaaah! poor warbird!

[GermanWarRemembrance]

it's already back in air :)

[WakeUpDummies]

R U calling me a Jew? LOL!! Not even close. My people almost exterminated them.

[WakeUpDummies]

Very cool. Never heard of that Bellanca. The only ones I am familiar with is the Viking. Wood wings, fast as a speeding bullet. Very sleek design. I got a hospital visit from the hornets nest living in a wing of one back in Tennessee where my family owned an aircraft salvage business back in the 80's. Grew up on a private strip.

You produced that game? Very neat. I remember hearing of it but never investigated any further.

[WakeUpDummies]

That's interesting. I knew thew P51 had superior range to anything out there but never thought of it as being under performing in the dogfight. Cool name BTW. Do you have a Luscombe? I had one as a child then got into a J3 Cub which I nearly got killed in on my 16th birthday :)

[abo944]

Cartwheel?? That's a groundloop !

[WakeUpDummies]

Exactly.. that's what I was going to say. LOL!! Sad... hopefully not too much damage was done.

[plovakia]

looks like damage isn't too bad. Good thing the pilot's safe

[WakeUpDummies]

Yeah.... he did a great job to not do more damage. I wonder if he knew the gear was going to collapse?

[plovakia]

well if he had eyes down there than perhaps. unless but then again, the lights in the cockpit should've indicated if the gears are down or not. the 262 would've informed him anyway lol

[WakeUpDummies]

You would think so but did that plane have gear down n locked lights?

[plovakia]

Dunno, all I know is the planes are beautiful ^^ especially the 262

[WakeUpDummies]

Indeed

[hwildy]

Willy Messerschmitt's design to place the biggest engine into the smallest airframe resulted in a very narrow landing track, making it tricky to land especially on uneven surfaces. Accidents due to actual gear failure were relatively uncommon.

[sardosfish]

most pilots died in landing crash with bf 109 for gear failure.not strong but this is the icon of ww2 aircraft with over 15.000 victories against all kind of aircraft ecept italians and japans.

[WakeUpDummies]

t couldn't touch the P-51 ;)

[palomino1973]

Weiss jemand, was aus der Maschine geworden ist ?

Wird sie repariert oder nur zur stummen Zeitzeugin degradiert um irgendwo herumzustehen ?

[FiveCentsPlease]

If I recall, the engine of this aircraft is a Daimler-Benz that was discovered in Italy after being hidden away by someone who was interested in it.

[LittleOurkie]

Looks like the right main didn't lock. Really that was an excellent landing in that situation and the plane is quite repairable.

[luciefan44]

Ich glaube 1997 ist ebenfalls eine ME109 verunglückt. Damals über ne Rollbahn hinhaus geschossen.

[farofa0504]

noob pilot

[PanzerAce247]

farofa0504, you try landing one of them 109's first, before you make comments about someone else

[telemacherT2]

Es tut mir leid.

[tokyoman01]

It was the narrow track undercarriage that led to so many accidents in WW 2, and not necessarily it failing like it did in this clip.

[jasbutler]

it did.. i met a me109 piolet and he said he crashed atleast 5 times on take off and landing !!!

[TheUnforgivingOne]

apperently this happened alot in WWII

[stefanof1994]

god the reason for this crash ( and many like this in ww2) is the me-109 has a terrible undercarriage. it has outerwheels making the landing gear very unstable. the mk hawker hurricane however has an inner undercarriage ( the wheels are on the inside) making it very stable .

[Pave1schinko]

lost more 109s in landing than combat

[stefanof1994]

yep .. if the me-109 had a better undercarridge than that would of never happend

[OneJazzKid]

It was a great plane. But this was a big problem indeed. Anyway, Bf 109 E and G were impressive interceptors ruling the skies over Europe for a long time, and they continued to be feared enemies, even long after the air superiority had been lost...with aces scoring not in the dozens, but in the hundreds.

[stefanof1994]

yes definatly , in my opinion the BF-109 was the most beautiful and at the same time deadly fighter plane of the war. Shame the Bf-109 were slowly being replaced by the overclassing FW-109.

[opmdevil]

If hurricane failes to lower one of the landing gear, the damage is much greater than it would be in 109. This is because 109 has the landing gears closer together so the speed when the wing tip hits the ground is smaller and therefore the damage too. 109 was designed so that you can land it with small damage with a landing gear failure. All you had to do with 109 is to change the while wintip and propably fit new LG and prop and that's it.

[AlexSlams]

Your argument is invalid because no matter what airframe damage is inflicted the engine will still be shock loaded due to the prop strike on both types.

[BrushCountryAg03]

That's really a shame. Does anyone know how many flying Me-109 variants are left in the world?

[dasspr]

easy fix... thank God! poor plane!

[tony00165]

what happened here?..it looks as if the port oleo leg didn'r retract after take off and the pilot intended to land as normal not knowing that the starboard wheel had not come down again...even so..notice how the plane runs in a circle on touch down owing as much to the negative camber (Wheels lean in at the top) as to the fact that resistance is greater on the starboard side with the wing touching the ground.

[XOROHN]

schade um die schöne maschiene

[pete2778]

The pilot did superbly getting her down with so little damage. Whilst I like to see aircraft in museums, I still believe that their natural element is in the air and they're best appreciated thus. Replica building is great but the manufacture of the tooling can be prohibitive. The new FW190's manufactured by Flugwerke in Germany are superb though and with advances in CAD and CNC machining, I hope that other companies take up the challenge and produce more lost types for future generations.

[cerb234]

flug werks fw's suck they dont even have a bmw801 in them

[pete2778]

Given that there are no airworthy genuine FW190s anywhere in the world and Flugwerke's aircraft are dimensionally and proportionally correct down to the last external detail, unlike any other "FW190 replica" in the world, IMHO, they're excellent. Manufacturing an accurate replica airframe is a difficult enough proposition, manufacturing a replica engine, with it's complex castings and forgings, is beyond the budget of a concern the size of Flugwerke. Some people are never happy...

[flashgrim]

It seems ironic that the engine used in the FW190 replica new build is a chinese copy of the engine that powered the Lavochkin La 5 on the eastern front in WW2. When you think how many times these two aircraft must have fought.

[pete2778]

Just as the Hispano Buchon (the Spanish built version of the Me109) was powered by the Rolls Royce Merlin!

It's a shame that the FW190 replica can't be powered by the correct engine but at least the cowlings are the correct shape (unlike those of the Buchons painted up as Me109s)!

[groovy67]

If you say they suck,build an engine for them then......or stop complaining!

[mochiam]

At the risk of sounding unpopular I think that is time to retire these fantastic air warriors and replace them with replicas. It has been done with the me 262. They are pieces of our history, don't let them crash and disappear

[DeutscherPatriot91GE]

You are 100% right

[mochiam]

thanks :-)

[urbannibja123]

You know what? i totally agree and why the f*ck would that make u unpopular??? its a waste of these beautiful planes and ur perfectly right!

[mochiam]

well not long time ago on you tube, commenting an hurricane crash landing at an airshow I propose the same idea and and I was attacked by several user mainly from UK and Usa. They didn't want to give up the roaring of the engines....... Anyway it is so painful to me, and I really mean it to see such crashes and I wish to see a crossnational movement of museum curators, small aircraft companies and air enthusiast to promote this idea. But I guess it's just a dream ..........

[wingyip]

me109 is notorious in it's landing gear.

[ponchoyo]

Those retracts still prove to be a killer.

[PistolPete2]

That wasn't a cartwheel, it

was a ground loop.

[ToromBerlin]

Täusche ich mich oder ist nicht schon vor zwei jahren eine bei der Landung leicht verunglückt??? und war das nich auch ne ME-109

[Scorpac]

keine ahnung, aber ich will auchmaln warbird fliegen... so schöööööön *dream*

[Norderstedter29]

Ist ja so typisch für die Bf109...

Damals an der Ostfront sollen ja (besonders im Herbst und Winter) auf manchen Fliegerhorsten mehr 109er und Piloten durch Fahrwerksbruch oder Überschlag verloren gegangen sein als durch Feindeinwirkung.

War nur eine von mehrere Schwachstellen an diesem sonnst echt guten Flugzeug.

Ein oft zitierter Spruch:

"Der Willy Messerschmitt hat da ein tolles Jagdflugzeug gebaut - leider hat er dabei den Piloten vergessen"

[DerReclaimer117]

Ich wusste nicht das es so aus sah!!!

[Manstein74]

da tut mirs herz weh

[Manstein74]

nicht schon wieder...

[Rollo87]

Hab ich mir auch gedacht!

Das Gleiche ist doch letztens erst der Roten 7 passiert!

(Fahrwerk nicht verriegelt...)

[ZeroHunter93]

war da nicht noch irgendein fall wo es der me den gesamten motor rausgehauen hat?

[marakai666]

It hurts to watch - there are so few German warbirds in flight-worthy condition (compared to the masses of American or British ones).

Hope they get it fixed quickly. Also wish they'd had a Fw-190 (my personal "favourite").

To any other aviation buffs: is this really a "Gustav", I just can't tell from the angle and the video quality?

[Bogey71]

yep it is a "Gustav"

[marakai666]

Ta, mate. Found another video that showed the characteristic bumps on the cowling, as well as the rounded spinner better.

Now trying to find out more about this bird's history.

[marakai666]

Heh, just watched it again - and actually the bulges are really small, almost like a K model.

Anybody know the model/serial number and/or has links to the history of this specific aircraft?

[Bogey71]

It is the "black 2" of Walter Eichhorn, in the video you can clearly see the number 2 behind the cross as it is passing by during take-off.

Google it!

[marakai666]

Hi, thanks for the reply. Now, Walter Eichhorn is the current pilot (and owner?) of the aircraft. He is a bit young to be a WW2 ace. :)

Search for "Black 2" actually returns two - the EADS ones and another in Dayton, acquired from Yugoslavia.

[Bogey71]

Its the EADS one.

Go to Airliners. net and search for D-FDME

[Zdaytona05]

there are not many america and british ones left either

[marakai666]

Yeah, but it's an order of magnitude. There's about 150 P-51s in flying condition! Enough to escort a decent bombing raid - if you still had the B-17s for it and a time machine. ;)

[bilbommer]

I think october it will be flying again.

[Frostman182]

Did a nice job, and it probably would be better to land on the grass to try and keep the plane in better shape for repair.

[foxy3ye]

Was?! Niemand wurde verletzt? Halt die Fresse, blöder NTV-Laberaffe, Flugzeuge sind auch nur Menschen! Rassist -.-

[laylaholic]

Might just be me, but I wouldn't quite call that cartwheeling off the runway! Kudos to the pilot, excellent emergency landing!

[Celeon999A]

Sieht nach nur geringem Schaden an der Tragfläche und am Propeller aus. Hat wohl die Verriegelung vom rechten Fahrwerk den Geist aufgegeben.

Glaube aber nicht das daß so schnell vor Ort repariert werden kann.

Der Propeller allein wird schon ausgetauscht werden müssen und die haben mit Sicherheit keinen auf Lager.

Auf dieser ILA wird die wohl nicht mehr fliegen. Schade :(

[Mackz1337]

Thanks for sharing