Showing posts with label Messerschmitt Bf109. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Messerschmitt Bf109. Show all posts

Thursday, 13 April 2017

3D MODELING: Messerschmitt Bf109 G6/G8 by Wojciech Nieweglowski. Part 1 - v. G6/G8/G14

First part of gallery is dedicated to Bf109 version G6/G8/G14. Author changed the concept of final effect during his work. For this reason, you can see the evolutionary changes between the Bf109 versions made during the author's work. In the other parts of the gallery you will be able to see similar changes, while working on the next versions of the aircraft and to a few final amazing results.

Click the link to see full gallery: Messerschmitt Bf109 - Wojciech Nieweglowski. Part 1- G6/G8/G14

Messerschmitt Bf109 G6 in Krakow Polish Aviation Museum, Cracow.

Messerschmitt Bf109 G8,MT483, WNr.710012 in Finish markings, Sept 1944
Messerschmitt Bf109 G14, "White 15" - Germany May 1945

Friday, 11 November 2016

Sunday, 16 October 2016

Set of photos - The Invasion of Poland, The Battle of Britain, The Battle over Belgium.

Formation of Heinkel He111 during the Battle of Britain
Messerschmitt Bf109 downed, September 1940
By 24 September 1940 the rudder of Adolf Galland's aircraft had 40 kill markings applied.

Sunday, 11 September 2016

The production process and technical review - Luftwaffe equipment

BMW Flugmotorenbau GmbH in 1936 moved into the new factory it had built at Allach on the outskirts of Munich. This is where the MTU Aero Engines is located today. (source: www.mtu.de)
With the BMW 801, BMW Flugmotorenbau GmbH developed the first German twin-row radial engine. With the Nazi regime’s ever-expanding military build-up and the subsequent war, during which the BMW 801 found extensive use as the powerplant for a number of fighter aircraft, among them the Focke-Wulf Fw190, the company pushed the speed of development and the scale of production to the limits of its capacity. Sadly it even went far beyond, especially towards the end of the war, when thousands of forced laborers had to work at the plant to further increase its output. After just two years of development, the first engines were delivered in 1940, and production — which mainly took place in Munich-Allach — was ramped up to around 1,000 units per month by early 1944. In all, the company produced some 30,000 BMW 801s. (source: www.mtu.de)

Set of Luftwaffe photos - a lot of desert camouflage examples



Tuesday, 10 May 2016

Neustädter Flugzeugwerke factory in Wiener Neustädt - workshop and production process - set of photos.

Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke located about thirty miles south of Vienna is the charming city of Wiener Neustädt.

" The first aircraft production in Wiener Neustädt was begun in 1914 by the Oesterreichische Flugzeug Fabrik Aktiengesellschaft (Austrian Aircraft Factory, Incorporated). During WWI it produced the Oeffag C1 and C2 biplanes and Albatros D II and D III models. After the end of WWI in November 1918, the Treaty of Versailles
forbid military aircraft construction in the plant and all material therein was seized or destroyed. In 1927 Daimler Motors moved into the facility to produce bus and automobile bodies. In 1933 the facility was moved to Styer, and soon the sport biplane company in another of the buildings was shut down because of production difficulties.
Times were tough in Wiener Neustädt.
Overview of the factory
In 1935, through the initiative of several well known Wiener Neustädt WWI fliers including pilot Julius Agri, engineers Lampich and Meindl, the Wiener Neustädter Flughavengesellschaft (Wiener Neustädt Airport Company) was created. This was followed by Lampich and Meindl building a series of sport planes with a staff of around 40 persons. In time the facility was expanded to maintain and repair aircraft, but for most purposes, the aircraft industry had ceased to exist. In early 1938, this was about to change in ways no one could have imagined. It did not take long for the Luftwaffe to take advantage of the opportunities associated with the Annexation of Austria. On 28 March 1938, a few days after the annexation became effective.

Monday, 9 May 2016

Saturday, 26 March 2016

Anti bomber pilots, in defense of the Reich. Part 3

Messerschmitt Bf109G of Major Walther Dahl's III./JG 3 undergo enginbe maintanance at Leipheim in March 1944. The aircraft in the features a typical spinner spiral and the white fuselage band of the Geschwader, as well as the black vertical bar of III. Gruppe
Fw190 'Yellow 13' prepares o start up at Störmede in the spring of 1944. It is believed that this aircraft may have been one of those flown by Hauptmann Rüdiger Kirchmayr, Staffelkapitän of5./JG 1 and victor over 14 four-engined bombers

Sunday, 20 March 2016

A set of 45 pictures of Focke-Wulf Fw190 and Messerschmitt Bf109

A captured Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf 190 at Sint-Truiden airfield in Belgium in the spring of 1945, painted in the colours of the 404th Fighter Group.
US personnel inspect a Junkers Ju87 at Fürth

Anti bomber pilots, in defense of the fallen idea of a madman. Part 2

Hitler's obsessive thinking about the bomb hit a British city, didn't allow to focus on the defense of their own country. Those pilots in the second half of the war, were doomed, but always showed, unquestionable usefulness of fighter units and high qualifications of the Luftwaffe staff.
Messerschmitt Bf109 G6/R of 12./JG3 fitted  with loaded underwing 21 cm WGr mortar tubes photographed at San Severo, in central Italy, in August 1943
Know your enemy -  under the Mediterranean sun, Sicily-based Germn fighter pilots receive open air instruction on how to attack a B-24 in 1943