Rumour is Russell BF109 sold

[The Inspector]

The 109 was designed from the get-go to be easily broken down (wings and Stabs off) and to be transported in the bed of a standard Army truck or towed on a trailer, so a rubber curtain sided 53 foot trailer would make transporting it an easy thing.

[redvanner]

The 109 was designed from the get-go to be easily broken down (wings and Stabs off) and to be transported in the bed of a standard Army truck or towed on a trailer, so a rubber curtain sided 53 foot trailer would make transporting it an easy thing.

@The Inspector: You are right in most of your post, but not everywhere. The 109 was designed to fit on a standard German rail wagon, wings beside fuselage to save space. And the fuselage fits with no problems on a standard German flat bed trailer
(without wings), but wings could be transported on the truck. Primary was moving the fuselage without any problems and fittings on railway, street transport was regarded secondary. But you are of course right with the rest.

Michael

Me 109 G6 D-FMBB (1.st one!) when leaving restoration facilities of Art Williams at Günzburg, 1982, Copyright: Werner Blasel



So, as you can see, the narrow landing gear was not by any means by chance, but required by the RLM. And not without any sense, but with no regard to the consequences to the pilot(s).

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[Matt Gunsch]

When the AZ CAF had the HA-1112s at Deervalley, they had a trailer made that held the fuselage with fold down sides that held the wings. We towed that plane all over for displays in malls and such. We could unload the fuselage and roll it thru a standard width double doors and have the wings on in less than a hour.