Warbird Information Exchange

Is Yagen's example the one the Air Force Museum built up using a Japanese copy of the DB605 from a Kawasaki Ki 61 Tony? I always thouht that was an amazing story, Spanish and Japanese components painted in German markings.

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Yikes! Seriously? That's an incredibly rare engine by itself..seems a bit of a waste using it to "back date" a Buchon. With a couple of Ki-61s currently under rebuilt, I hope the Japanese engine has gone to one of those projects.

SN

@bomberflight: Stunning pictures Peter, saw both last year in September at BoB show, thought it was a pity the tan one wasn´t airworthy at that time. Anyone know which part was missing? Your A2A shots are perfect, would make a nice poster.

@Ryan Keough: Ryan,as several others wrote, there are many conversions of Buchons to Me 109 G standard using DB 605´s. Messerschmitt Stiftung (EADS) has 3 flying examples {at least at some time flying all, at the moment only G-2 and G-10, G-6 is under maintenance.} G-2, G-6, G-10 are flying ones, one static G-2, (and had another airframe, the "original" or 1. FMBB converted, lost in an accident, it had the fin of a Hispano engined airframe), several static ones in Museums. So no problem in converting a Buchon with DB 605 to Me 109 G standard if you ask the right people. Converting with DB 601 would be Me 109 E standard (or possibly F?). AFAIK F would be quite similar to G (basically G was developed from F), to create a Me 109 E would be substantially more difficult, as there are not many parts interchangeable, if any. AFAIK there are none existing flyable 109 E conversion from Buchon. Hispanos were made using blueprints of Me 109 G-2´s and 25 original G-2 airframes , minus fin/rudder, horizontal fin/elevator and minus engine, as templates.
Link to Messerschmitt Stiftung (part of EADS):

http://www.eads.com/eads/germany/de/uns ... meBox=true

There is a company in southern Germany producing new Me 109 airframes/parts called Hartmair, see Link:

http://www.leichtbau-gmbh.de/index.htm

Michael

Not that I can read or speak German (and to lazy to use a net translator, I'm more of a picture kind of guy anyway) but that looks like a great project... seems to be on major flaw in the plane and that is the power plant.

Tim

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Wish I could see the photos. I waited for the page to load then it froze my computer. I tried to refresh the page but then the wix forum font turned really small and a box came up asking me to kill the site.

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