MAM German ME-109 (Messerschmitt BF 109) First US Flight 5/20/16
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- These shots were taken on Friday before the 2016 Warbirds Over the Beach airshow. The Military Aviation Museum recently acquired this ME 109 to add to their incredible collection of WWI and WWII warbirds. It was reconditioned in Europe and shipped to the U.S. This was the first flight in the U.S. for an ME 109 (according to everyone I talked to at the event today). They started and flew her a second and third time as well before the day was over.
Update: Helpful, clarifying information about the plane's designation or origin is welcome, but I'm not going to allow the comments to turn into a flame war over whose letters and numbers are most accurate. Post accordingly so as not to have your comments deleted.
Really good video of the second flight here: ua-cam.com/video/1P1DaPWepYo/v-deo.html
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BS! 3:35-4:04 is the "flight". The rest is just startup and taxi to takeoff and then taxi in from landing. What a crock!
Seems the markings are of JG3 "Udet". My grandfather served with that unit.
Heil strudel
Jawohl, I knew him. Gut flieger ja.
So it's a G6?
Respect and love to your grandfather's memory.I know the truth about that war and the allies (all lies) wrote the history books full of lies. My grandfather was on the battleship Missouri during that war. He was loading the guns on the second set of guns on the right. I'm sure he would be angry he fought for the central banking cartel and was deceived into thinking he fought for freedom.
I love the sound of that engine! Beautiful restoration with the authentic Luftwaffe markings. Thank you for not deleting the swastika, which adds to the authenticity. 🇩🇪👏👍👌
Restoration 100
@@Psychedelic_TimeTraveller86 nyet
@@Psychedelic_TimeTraveller86 It has a Buchon airframe, but the DB605 that it uses was pulled from a Bf110 that landed in Switzerland
Beautiful machine..And that engine sounds AMAZING
Craig Williams same... German vehicles are BOSS! I know there bad but damn there vehicles are bad ass!
IMHO all WW2 fighters look and sound badass, especially P-51 and FW190.
red eye, pardon me for butting in, but he said the germans were not bad but bad ass meaning bad MFers. my favorite ww2 fighters are me 109 , a6m zero , yak 3 and p47 thunderbolt. all ww2 fighters are cool.
fuel injected engine, it was most advanced of its kind in the world in 1940 ...
barracuda7018 Correct. Direct fuel injection, I believe.
It was called BF, because it was made by Bayreiche Flugzugwerke, albeit designed by Williy Messerschmitt, but the Reichsluftfartsministerium (RLM) gave it the designation BF, because thats the initials of the company. Same as Junkers, JU. Or Dornier, DO. Or Heinkel, HE. and Messerschmitt, ME.
It made its first flight on may 26th 1935. It was not untill a more than 3 years later on the 11th of July 1938 when Ernhard Milch let Willy Messerschmitt take over the company. From then on all NEW designs were designated as ME by the RLM. But the 109 and 110 were from before the change in owners. Later modells were named ME such as the ME 410 and the ME 262. and yes Im aware that Willy Messerschmitt founded the company. but he was not the CEO for a number of years
What a beauty! What a sound! A real Messerschmitt! Love it!
Messerschmitt bought Bayrische Flugzeugwerke before the War
@@arawali2321 Yes of Course, you are right, good man :-)
@Thanawat Tothum It is a Messerschmitt build in ,,Bayrische Flugzeugwerke". Right calling: Messerschmitt Bf 109 (E-3)
@@matthiasglaschke5946 Yes. BF : bayerische flugzeugwerke
I've been into aeroplanes since I was a kid. All the other kids loved the Spitfire but I fell in love with the bf 109,particularly the later models.
Me too!
My father-in-law's Beaufighter was shot up by one these over the North Sea in 1944. Thankfully, he survived to greet his daughter into the World in Feb1945. We didn't know about the 'dogfight' until his widow's death in 2016 when we had access to his Pilots Log books.
The DB 605 was a 35.7L Supercharged V12 with a direct fuel injection system from Bosch, The supercharger was fairly advanced for the era in that it used a barometrically controlled hydraulic clutch (fluid coupling) which allowed the system to automatically compensate for changes in altitude. As spezial equipment a MW 50 or a GM-1 injectrion sytem was used. The MW 50 is a water methanol injection, the GM-1 was a NitrousOxide system. It was only allowed to use the injections for the "Sondernotleistung" max 26 minutes (then the system was empty). They used it only 10 minutes continuously cause they expected serious engine damage. The DB 605 DC had 2000HP with the MW50 and the DB 605 DB reached 1800HP. And yes the sound of a 109 is so lovely. I like this supercharger noise so much.
you can hear it perfect at 1:20 in the video
Thanks for posting ! Thanks to the guys that were able to make this piece of history flying.
One beautiful plane for sure! Love the sound....
Thank goodness there is still enough intere$t in aviation history to bring this flying warbird to these shores.
As a ten year old in 1975 my dad drove me and mom 810 miles to the CAF in Harlingen. (That's when the "C" stood for "Confederate".) I got to see the "Ghost Squadron" of the CAF with a F4U and a P-38 amongst its wing.
Dad worked a carrier deck signaling Corsairs in after the war '46-'48. When I first saw that Corsair in person I was awestruck. I was shorter than ONE propeller blade!
That was all it took... Or so I thought. When that sonofabitch coughed to life a mere 10 feet away, I fought the urge to soil myself. Ear-splitting and ground-shaking. I can still remember the scent of that wonderful exhaust.
There is no way a static museum example could have provided the same impression.
I hope we convince the next generation of enthu$iast$ to preserve these beautiful pieces of aviation history in flying condition whenever possible.
Great points, and I was also like to see new planes being built in modern factories to the original specifications plus added modern tech to enhance safety and performance where possible. Id certainly buy one - id find a way. lol.
Well hopefully liberals dont keep bleeding into society because all interest in WW2 history and classic aviation will disappear
Captain Hecker
You're an idiot.
Well The George Soros led left wing are tearing down all of our confederate war monuments so I doubt a German NAZI plane will last long before they break in and burn it to the ground.
'i fought the urge to soil myself' LOL!!! thats priceless! lovely account though
One of the quirks of modern video, which I dislike, is that propellers no longer blur when in motion.
I know that we are stuck with it but it just looks so wrong.
Agree, was going to make that comment till I saw yours.
If you want the prop to blur you just need to adjust the fps at which you take the video.
I think you can control prop blur with an ND (neutral density) filter; most modern video cameras will adjust the fps automatically to compensate.
But you can calculate the the prop rotation rpm at low engine revs.
you made a great job boys, im proud of you........Greets from Germany
restored at Meyer Motors in Germany, Bodo.
Bodo von Falkenhayn ARE YOU A REAL HUN?!
Why not Dale, real Huns are not a seldom species, we have enough here in germany.
Einfach geil die Bf109, ich will auch eine haben.
@@Sturminfantrist I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T REFER TO THE PRESENT-DAY GERMANS AS "HUNS", BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ENEMIES ANY MORE...
thx mate :) !
Merlins roar, but the DB 605 has a thunderous growl like no other aero engine ever created, a masterpiece of German technology.
The Germans had good engineers during the ww2 and daimler is always known for good engines for planes, and good cars and trucks
Glad see a BF109 still flying, and in the States for that matter. I know Europe has a few flying examples. It seems like there are only a handful fully operational BF109's left in the world.
When this thing fires up-it acts &looks like it is ready to jump off the ground NOW, engine sounds super healthy. What a blast it must be to fly it.
"This was the first flight in the U.S. for an ME 109 (according to everyone I talked to at the event today)" No. I had a temp job at Mojave airport in the summer of 2001 while transferring colleges. During that time David Price's Santa Monica Museum of Flying had their BF-109E "White 14" in engine layup. I watched it from about 100 ft away doing engine runups once it had the original Daimler engine installed. God what a sound. The Daimler is smaller than a Merlin but the blower gear noise and short stacks give it a whining crackle that is all business. White 14 is the first to have flown in the US since the war with the original Daimler engine. It's in Canada now.
@zuloff Actually both the DB601 and the DB605 are bigger in displacement than the Merlin. 33L and 35.7L compared to 27 Liters in the Merlin.
And White14 now is at Biggin Hill airport in UK waiting for the DB601 Overhaul. :)
I stand corrected Sir.
I believe white 14 ( as an E ) was found in Russia and the Wk No of the airframe was traced to being a plane that Hans Joachim Marseille flew in the battle of Britain. I believe. Before he became the Star of Africa.
This one of the most moving videos I've seen. Thank you xoxoxox
OMG I thought the Merlin engine had a beautiful sound..... Wow that is glorious! And the fact that it just fires up and seems so ready to go... I want to fly one....
I absolutely love this machine!
WELL, IF YOU LOVE IT SO MUCH, THEN WHY DON'T YOU MARRY IT?!!
109 was a wicked weapon, but it had some quirks to flying it. I saw a show where they had some old German and English pilots from WW2 get into each others planes and compare. The Germans all stated that the Spit was easier to fly and land. It also handled better in turns. But in inverted dives the Fuel Injected 109 could then outrun the Spit which had a Carby. Once the Merlin became fuel injected, then that advantaged disappeared. Also the 20 mm cannon the 109 had in the nose, could peel enemy planes apart in a few bursts. Both pilots like each others planes, but the Spit came out in front.
1:54 - The beast wants to be released!
Jack Keville holy shit, did you see how it tilted forward.
She nearly jumped the wheel choks, tell me you cant love that German enthusiasm...
Shes like "COME ON COME ON, LET ME FLYYYYYYYY, 24 HOURS ON THE GROUND IS FAR TO LONG! I cant stand gravity!"
The only other plane ive seen this Enthusiastic to fly is my countrys Pride-n-Joy Boomerang, with her mid flight Howel, which i may add sounds like the Mighty Doomerang is screaming "WOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOoooooooo!"
ua-cam.com/video/-9-luVivamY/v-deo.html
@@kethtemplar8989 What a scream! :o
Be proud of your country's pretty plane! :)
I've always thought that the 109 looks more purposeful, as a war machine, than the Spitfire. It's big lump of an inverted DB engine allowed it to both dive and climb extremely quickly and combined with exceptonal armament made it a formidable machine.
In reality, the inverted V12 layout was chosen for better visibility.
I'm gonna faint. My gosh it's beautiful.
Most beautiful Axis plane ever...
...until this fucking nazi plane is behind you...
Yeah- that would be a thrill ride
Is it the first 109 in the U.S.?...years ago Ed Russel from Niagara Falls , Ontario had an authentic Me109 with DB engine as part of his collection.....i may be wrong but I'm pretty sure he had it flown at Geneseo N.Y.
I don't know if the paint scheme is correct for that aircraft, if so great, if not there are a lot of paint schemes that are more visibly striking and interesting. Very cool to have these aircraft restored and back in the air, I'd love to see it fly!
She starts right up! Nice flying too. An important part of history to be preserved for sure.
Fantastic, from a distance can hardly see the Messerschimtt when it gets below the tree line.
It is so good that it gave me the chills !!
Wow, you guys got a nice low pass on the first flight! I slept in and missed it, but caught the second flight.
I like how the plane seems to be bucking to get out of the wheel chocks on start-up.
pmg757. I noticed that too. I am not familiar with how it starts but it seems like electric motor gets momentum and then kicks in the motor. I also noticed the blades angle. I wonder if they can start at less of angle but they do have to clear a lot of smoke.
These WW2 war birds were the pinnacle of aviation beauty. Absolutely incredible!
that pilot is f....kin amazing,keeping her on her front wheels before taking off so long. so many pilots killed trying to control them when taking off... BIG RESPECT TO PILOT AND OTHERS OF WW2.
Well, it's been a year now since I viewed this, and haven't seen any thing new. Hope you guys still have it and can give us a new video. What an amazing aircraft it is.
+Craig Pennington Well, it flies. But recently it has rained every year during the annual air show at the museum in Virginia. (Typically around May.) Of the nine or so Bf-109s that are restored to airworthy worldwide, roughly one third to one half are down for engine issues at times. Expensive and temperamental to keep in the air.
I love fast jets but sounds of old ww2 pros like spit hurri me109s etc are awesome....goosebump time.
Such a beauty!
That sound on the low flyby was something else!! At 3.18 thought it was going to nose over though!
My mother saw several air battles over Southampton & Portsmouth that included this fighter; everyone knew about the 109 that's for sure...
The pure *DEADLINESS* of that aircraft emanates from every rivet. It gives me the shivers.
As much as I love the beautiful sound of a Merlin, nothing beats the obnoxious cackle of a Daimler Benz!
Do you notice the whistling of the supercharger? Very typical of the DB 605. One flew over us here in Celle, Germany the other day. I heard it in my office, couldn't believe my ears. Ra
@@ockertbrits6907 Lucky bugger! Maybe one day, we dont have any here that fly in Australia,yet anyway. Merlins sound great, but these sound tougher!
Wow, the sound of the power unit in that bird. Sends chills.
Great Video! Unfortunately we weren't able to make it Friday and planned a trip for Saturday. But thanks to Tropical Storm Bonnie nothing could fly on Saturday, or Sunday since the weather was so bad! I'm glad to see my 9-year-old son and I "didn't" miss anything this year. My son would have literally been broken hearted to have gone to the show and not had the chance to see this beautiful aircraft fly! But Good Lord willing - we'll be there next May 2017 - if the weather will cooperate!
1:18 - Omg. I could loop that low pass 100s of times.
A faster one would have been really good.
One of sleekest most awesome looking aircraft ever built ' from altitude she was a predator .
Music to my ears, thanks for sharing!
beautiful design, isn't it?
is it?
its ugly as frick. that's the girl I would never ask for a dance at the ball.
It is indeed! Looks aggressive, as a fighter aircraft should look like
Amazing video , fantastic engine sound!
digital photography really brings out that reverse direction effect
With the landing gear slightly splayed outwards, aggravated not only the
tendency to ground loop, but excessive tire wear, and tire bursts. In 1939
the landing gear problem was already noticed, with 255 Me-109s
damaged. A tailwheel lock fixed part of the problem, but the swing to the
left on takeoff, became greater as the engines fitted, were increased in
horsepower. By 1944 Luftwaffe fighter pilots were being sent into combat
with only 160 hours flight time whereas their British and American
counterparts had 360 and 400 hours. A total of 11,000 Me-109s were
lost in takeoff and landing accidents. The later heavy cumbersome canopy
was almost impossible for the pilot to open, with the result that many
pilots were badly injured or died. The last plane that Luftwaffe pilots
trained on, was the Arado 96 with wide inward folding landing gear(like the
FW-190), then when they switched to 109's it must have been a nasty shock. Willy Messerschmitt never built a plane that had a sliding canopy.
If the pilots could have taken off and landed with canopies in open
position, escape from the aircraft would have be easier, and saved many
lives. In the air, it had more kills than any other fighter in WW 2
One slight correction: Rookie fighter pilots in late 1944 - 1945 went to operational units with as few as 102 hours total flying time, 2 hours gliders, ~ 40 - 50 basic training, ~ 30 - 40 hours advanced training, and a mere ~ 10 - 20 hours on operational a/c like the Bf / Me 109 or Fw 190. Of those very poorly trained cannon fodder pilots more than 95 % did not survive. Most of them were only 18 or 19. BTW my father started training in autumn 1944, he did survive due to the fact that his was the first course that was cancelled during advanced training because of lack of gasoline. At cease fire in Europe in May 1945 he was 18 years for 8 days exactly. If he had finished training, I most probably would not exist.
Interesting! Glad your around to tell the tale.
Amazing tale.
Man, everyone of those ME-109's sound so good in the air!!!! Im just wondering how many propellers this fella has bought since flying it because he was letting the tail come up mighty high for my likings!!!! Either way, Beautiful Video!!
For some reason, this gives me goosebumps, thinking of what our flyers encountered in the air......
Really lovely BF 109 G model ! Not some Buchon mock-up. So sad that many WW2 German planes cannot be seen flying today, such as the Heinkel He-111, Stuka, Bf 110, FW Condor, etc. So many could have been saved but were scrapped during and after WW2.
Certainly not the first flight for a BF-109 in the U.S. The Collings foundation has been flying one here for over twenty years. In any case it is a beautiful restoration.
Historically accurate markings. Very nice.
All this talk about whether it was ME-109 or BF109- gents , it was always known before and during the war by the those who flew it unquestionably as the ME-109 (pronounced "May") hundert neun.
I know everyone wants to call these planes ME 109s. They are all actually from Bayerische Flugzeugwerke in Regensburg. Hence their proper designation is BF 109!
Actually ME 109 is correct as Messerschmitt bought out the BFW in I think 1938 or 9 and after that they were all ME109s which was what the Luftwaffe was designating them. Unless it's a very early model it's an ME109. But somehow I don't think this will be the last time this is debated LOL!
Wartime documents continued to use both terms.
That depends, not all 109s were assembled in Regensburg.
I was curious about that, as I've seen it as BF109 and ME109.
The company was renamed Messerschmitt AG after 11 July 1938 when Erhard Milch finally allowed Willy Messerschmitt to acquire the company. All Messerschmitt aircraft that originated (design) after that date, such as the Me 210, were to carry the "Me" designation. Some 109 models after 1938 were called ME on some paperworks but all the extant airframes bear the "Bf 109" designation on their identification plates, including the final K-4 models
Beautiful bird. That was a long take off run!
Trees were coming up fast !
Incredibly beautiful. Love this video. Tks bud
Amazing :) @ 1:50 sounds really great engine start up and taxi. Also nice good ground handelling by pilot and crew.
Such a beautiful machine
Damn, next to the p41....this is a beautiful aircraft.
Take-off looked surprisingly stable despite all the stories about the Me109 being a hand full.
I just love that menacing engine sound
Such a masterpiece!
man this is a legend...what a badass plane!
Really cool to see a original Messerschmitt ME-109 take to the sky and not the Hispano version.
Well done with the acquisition, and hope all goes well there... my only comment re future postings is use the term 'Bf 109'.
The use of 'Bf' was due to the aircrafts early production companies history in respect to later Messerschmitt designs which are correctly termed 'Me'. The term 'Me 109' was also used by the Allies from the earliest days in Intelligence and Combat reports incorrectly compounding the use of the term 'Me 109' which then crept into modern 'Allied' history books.
love it. the 1st pic that comes into my mind when i hear plane is: ME-109. regards from Germany and many thanks for this awesome video...
Gosh, this plane is so graceful in air, like a bird. Wow!
Thanks for the great video and SOUND!
Halfway through that thing started like an angry dragon lol, I cant imagine what that was like in the cockpit, she sounded so good on that low pass, what a piece of engineering. I know they lost a lot because of that undercarriage configuration but she was a wonderful plane
4:15 shit almost thought its gonna be a prop strike with roll over and dead pilot. Nice machine!
V12 Inverted cylinder with liquid refrigeration (Junkers Jumo 210). Later, a powerfull Daimler-Benz DB 600. This is music to my ears.
Beautiful plane!!!and the voice,marvelous!!!
Miałem okazję zasiąść w kabinie 109-tki "Gustaw", piękna maszyna, po wydobyciu z jeziora odrestaurowana na wystawę, niezdatna do lotu, wszystkie części miała oryginalne, trochę klaustroboficzna (strasznie ciasno, głową dotykałem do szyby owiewki), niesamowite wrażenie
Do you have a schedule of shows in which this aircraft will be present? I live in Maryland and would love to va beach to see this, I use to work on f16's years ago so I do enjoy some aircraft
It's good that you never covered the suastika. That airplane is a magnificent piece of History! Not a political statement... Growls like a monster! ME BF 109 is a wonderful flying machine. It has something magical about it... Greetings from Brazil!
To control the torque of that beast on take off takes skill. Damn good pilot!
Engine sounds bloody beautiful.....
Officials: the bf109 has a very narrow track. It’s very dangerous at landing and taking off.
Also officials: let’s fly it off an unpaved field.
1:22 omg that sounds AMAZING
Ask the p51 pilots if they hear this Sound
I pulled chocks! And the clip was cut out.... I wonder why????
oh my god they are back!!
wonderful!!
very nice job guys!!!!!
Absolutely gorgeous work to you all!
Absolutely beautiful aircraft.
Amazing piece of history. Thank you for sharing.
ME-109 and FW-190's my favs!
Super video,of this plane,thank you
It was the first diesel powered fighter as I have understood it. Awesome torque
Well that's your opinion. Read my comment again and you might get it right this time. Note the words, AS I HAVE UNDERSTOOD IT. I didn't say I was sure. If you know the correct answer then why not just write it instead of being grumpy.
The DB 60X series of engines for these fighters were all gasoline engines, not diesel. I don't think any German aircraft engines of WW2 were diesel. You must be thinking of a different fighter
@@brettblades9320 🤷♀️
They are a beautiful little bird.
Look closely to the cowling, especially where it meets the spinner. Despite looking like a 109G-2, it seems to me that this is a half half special, a former HA-1112 mated to an original DB605 engine.
It does look odd. A 'bitser'
Great Sound, thanks for that Video, best wishes from Austria / Braunau
About as many German/Axis Me-109 pilots reportedly died/were injured during takeoffs & landings, as pilots who were casualties in combat.
Today's Me-109 pilots must have had excellent training for the very narrow gear track, and factors involved with such a 'tail dragger'. My entire career was in 'tricycle gear' transports, but never had any lesson in a 'taildragger'.
What a beautiful sight. !!!!
Great video. And no music, yay!
Gonna have to get out to VABCH and check this out of course.
What was with the intermittent cutting off of the engine? Didn't sound good...
the sound of that engine is heavenly
Nice.
My WW II favorite fighter.
one of my favorite WW2 aircraft.