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Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Torque on June 14, 2007, 09:41:55 AM
drove 3 hrs from the cottage to check it out, a ME109E-4 with a DB601 power-plant.

(http://ca.geocities.com/ereid@rogers.com/ME10902.jpg)

(http://ca.geocities.com/ereid@rogers.com/ME10903.jpg)

(http://ca.geocities.com/ereid@rogers.com/ME10904.jpg)

(http://ca.geocities.com/ereid@rogers.com/ME10905.jpg)

(http://ca.geocities.com/ereid@rogers.com/ME10906.jpg)

(http://ca.geocities.com/ereid@rogers.com/ME10908.jpg)

(http://ca.geocities.com/ereid@rogers.com/ME10910.jpg)

boy it is ugly...no?:D
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Angus on June 14, 2007, 09:57:49 AM
Absolute beauty...drooool.
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Bodhi on June 14, 2007, 10:18:52 AM
pics not showing for me :(
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Krusty on June 14, 2007, 10:53:30 AM
I tried that URL without the image, and got:

"The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer.
Access to this site will be restored within an hour. Please try again later."
Title: Sweet
Post by: Stampf on June 14, 2007, 11:49:50 AM
Damn thats fine!.  The pic with the Spit is beautiful!!  What a colorful place the skies over europe must have been.  It's hard to picture from the photo's of the time, but these really bring it out.

Thank you for posting.  
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Drano on June 14, 2007, 03:22:34 PM
Dang pretty plane. It didn't make it to Reading this year again. Maybe next year I'll get some pics.

Drano
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Flyboy on June 14, 2007, 04:41:03 PM
real question is... are the guns working? ;)
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Guppy35 on June 14, 2007, 04:43:51 PM
Some suggestion that Mersailles flew that one at one point during the B of B.

Paul Allen has a flying 109E now too and there was a B of B vet 109E found in India of all places that is now in England being restored.

And there is another that was pulled from a Russian lake that is clearly a potential flyer should the money get there for the restoration
(http://www.warbirdfinders.co.uk/me109/bf109e_8573-S1-009a_gallery.jpg)
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Fulmar on June 14, 2007, 06:02:39 PM
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Originally posted by Guppy35
Some suggestion that Mersailles flew that one at one point during the B of B.

Paul Allen has a flying 109E now too and there was a B of B vet 109E found in India of all places that is now in England being restored.

And there is another that was pulled from a Russian lake that is clearly a potential flyer should the money get there for the restoration
 


Now that's a camo scheme!  :rofl
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Treize69 on June 14, 2007, 06:06:39 PM
Thats the accepted history of the plane, it was one of Marseilles mounts when he was stationed in France, it was transferred east for Barbarossa at some point and lost over Russia, then recovered and restored in its Western Front markings.

I've never seen what it looked like on the Eastern Front though.
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Rino on June 14, 2007, 06:14:37 PM
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Originally posted by Drano
Dang pretty plane. It didn't make it to Reading this year again. Maybe next year I'll get some pics.

Drano


     I'm pretty much giving up on the Russell Group.  I'm sure I'd be careful
too..but their no-show record is beginning to wear.
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Serenity on June 14, 2007, 07:31:47 PM
Drooooolll!!! [adjusts pants...] My god thats one sexy beast!!!
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Knegel on June 15, 2007, 12:02:38 AM
GREAT pics!!!!! :aok

Whats about the Fokker Dr.1, D.VII and S.E.5a??

Did they fly as well??

Looks like this was a breathtaking flightday.

Iam envious!! :cry

Knegel
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Solar10 on June 15, 2007, 12:32:28 PM
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Originally posted by Serenity
Drooooolll!!! [adjusts pants...] My god thats one sexy beast!!!


I assume you are talking about Treize69's avatar.
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Angus on June 15, 2007, 12:56:34 PM
Yeah, what about the Fokker?
I have seen one (even looping) as well as a 3 formation of SE5's flying.
Wanna go to Duxford when I'm dead :D
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Treize69 on June 15, 2007, 01:58:31 PM
Go to Rhineback someday. Its Fighter Lovers heaven. :aok
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Platano on June 16, 2007, 03:50:11 AM
:aok
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Serenity on June 16, 2007, 04:04:46 AM
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Originally posted by Solar10
I assume you are talking about Treize69's avatar.


lol. Nope, was talking about the plane.
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: DaddyAck on June 16, 2007, 04:31:48 AM
Mmmm, sweet sweet 109 pictures........
(have to wipe off my monitor now) :rofl
Got druel on it. :D
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: DoLbY on July 05, 2007, 06:46:06 PM
Always nice to see those planes nowadays. Seems they are harder and harder to find as the years go on.
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: balance1 on July 15, 2007, 07:45:32 PM
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Originally posted by Treize69
Go to Rhineback someday. Its Fighter Lovers heaven. :aok

I live 15 mins form there...no lie! It is a WWI era aircraft lovers dream!
there airshows are also pretty d**n good too!  they also do helo and bi-plane rides!
P.S its Rhinebeck not rineback
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: scottydawg on July 15, 2007, 08:02:02 PM
I think the 109 is a really nice looking plane.  Like the 190 it lacks that certain aesthetic flair that the Spit has in spades, but it's still a very handsome plane. One look at it and you know exactly what it was built for: killing.
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: VooWho on July 16, 2007, 05:22:54 PM
Why are most of the 109s I see E-4 or something early. Is there still any late war 109s up and flying?

Another thing is there only one 190 still flying, but it wasn't built during WW2 but many years after?
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: macleod01 on July 16, 2007, 05:26:16 PM
Even got the 'Yo Daddy Superfly' Triangle infront of the canopy! :D
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Treize69 on July 16, 2007, 08:14:02 PM
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Originally posted by VooWho
Why are most of the 109s I see E-4 or something early. Is there still any late war 109s up and flying?

Another thing is there only one 190 still flying, but it wasn't built during WW2 but many years after?


Actually thats the only early 109 still flying, the others being Buchons and Gs.

Theres Black 6, a G2 no longer flying, and a G6 and a G10 which have taken to the air recently, though the G6 is actually a reengined Buchon.

The only flying 190s are modern rebuilds, though there are rumors that a 190D is being rebuilt to flying condition in the US.
Title: Russell Group's BF 109E-4
Post by: Nilsen on July 17, 2007, 05:22:54 AM
Beautiful plane and pictures. Thx for sharing Torque :)