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Offline CZCH64

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Messerschmitt in a wind tunnel, 1940
« on: December 02, 2012, 03:11:35 PM »
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Offline DEECONX

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Re: Messerschmitt in a wind tunnel, 1940
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2012, 09:44:53 PM »
Cool photos  :aok
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Re: Messerschmitt in a wind tunnel, 1940
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2012, 11:01:20 PM »
Ze Germans had some very impressive wind tunnels at the time. During the war they built one capable of producing Mach 4 wind speeds for the V2 project.
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Re: Messerschmitt in a wind tunnel, 1940
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2012, 11:08:15 PM »
First one is the wind tunnel A3, Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt Hermann Göring, Braunschweig (Brunswik). Max air speed = 350 km/h
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Re: Messerschmitt in a wind tunnel, 1940
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2012, 08:45:50 PM »
This photo has shown up in more places of the first 109E.  Note the second bird isn't the same one possibly a test bird V24 according to "Messerschmitt Bf 109 A-E" by Radinger & Schick



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Re: Messerschmitt in a wind tunnel, 1940
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2012, 09:54:21 PM »
Neat  :aok :aok
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Re: Messerschmitt in a wind tunnel, 1940
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2012, 09:59:15 PM »
I've noticed that it flys faster with only one horizontal stabilizer, or half a wing. At least that is how I frequently fly them and they seem faster.

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Re: Messerschmitt in a wind tunnel, 1940
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2012, 11:17:45 AM »
You can get the G and later to 550mph.  :eek:

No joke! You just have to dive from 10k+ in a shallow dive angle.  I have done it a few times now. 
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Re: Messerschmitt in a wind tunnel, 1940
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2012, 04:48:07 AM »
That doesn't sound too difficult. If you start from 30k you'll probably get it even faster then that, to near transonic speeds.
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Re: Messerschmitt in a wind tunnel, 1940
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2012, 08:33:01 PM »
Amazing, i never knew wind tunnels really existed back then.  At least not to that scale!
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Re: Messerschmitt in a wind tunnel, 1940
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2012, 10:13:33 AM »
The first picture is in the LFA as Lusche noted.

I'm not sure about the second one; might be the V24 at Chalais-Meudon, but that is a very large tunnel, IIRC oval 16x8m, structures look smaller.
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Re: Messerschmitt in a wind tunnel, 1940
« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2012, 10:58:21 AM »
The aircraft in the second picture is very interesting. Looks like a testbed for the improvements that would appear on the 109F. Cool find.
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