ME 109
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 (also Me 109) — Germany's most-produced fighter aircraft of WWII — captured as a sport-scale RC warbird.
About
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is the work of Willy Messerschmitt and his team at Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW). The Bf 109 V1 prototype made its first flight on May 28, 1935, and the type entered Luftwaffe service in 1937. After Messerschmitt acquired BFW in 1938, the type was sometimes designated "Me 109" (the manufacturer prefix changing to reflect the company name change), although the original "Bf" designation remained the official one in German records.
Total Bf 109 production reached approximately 33,984 airframes — making the Messerschmitt one of the most-produced fighters in history. The Bf 109 was the airframe in which Erich Hartmann scored 352 aerial victories on the Eastern Front (the highest individual fighter pilot score in history), and the type produced more aces than any other fighter of WWII.
The unmistakable narrow-track landing gear, the inverted-V Daimler-Benz inline engine, and the distinctive cockpit-cowling profile of the Bf 109 appear in countless modern RC scale warbird kits. A natural sibling of the BF-109 Messerschmitt (Scale WW2 Warbirds pack) — same airframe at a different scale.
In the simulator
A demanding warbird scale subject with the responsive handling of a real Daimler-Benz-powered fighter and the narrow-track landing gear that made the real airframe famously difficult on the ground.
