Aces High Bulletin Board

General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Tony Williams on February 25, 2001, 06:24:00 AM

Title: Bf 109 armament
Post by: Tony Williams on February 25, 2001, 06:24:00 AM

I have posted an article on the Bf 109.com website on the armament development of the Bf 109.  See: http://www.bf109.com/frameset.html (http://www.bf109.com/frameset.html)

Tony Williams
Author: Rapid Fire - The Development of Automatic Cannon, Heavy Machine Guns and their Ammunition for Armies, Navies and Air Forces.
Details on my military gun and ammunition website: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~autogun/ (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~autogun/)

Title: Bf 109 armament
Post by: juzz on February 25, 2001, 07:19:00 AM

Q: Where did that "MG 151 in the cowling" rumour start from anyway?

Title: Bf 109 armament
Post by: Tony Williams on February 26, 2001, 01:38:00 AM

 

Quote

Originally posted by juzz:
Q: Where did that "MG 151 in the cowling" rumour start from anyway?

It's appeared in various textbooks.  Where it started I don't know, but I suppose someone made an initial mistake than everyone else copied it....

Incidentally, the only a/c I know which were supposed to have MG 151 cowling guns were the Do 335 and a version of the Ta 152.  Merrick's excellent book on German aircraft interiors has a photo of a Ta 152 cowling with the panels off to show the guns, captioned as MG 151s.  Trouble is, they had perforated barrel casings, which makes them MG 131s....

Tony Williams
Author: "Rapid Fire: The development of automatic cannon, heavy machine guns and their ammunition for armies, navies and air forces"
Details on my military gun and ammunition website: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~autogun/index.htm (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~autogun/index.htm)