The most popular German fighter in WWII

Hi everybody !

In this post I'm going to tell you about German one of the german fighters. What is it ? Me262 ? FW190? DO217? BF110? No , it isn't any of this . I'm going to talk about BF109 , one of the best fighters of WWII. It propably was one of the most upgraded planes of WWII. Here's a photo:

 The one on photo I think is modernised BF109 K and it might be used for shows.

History of this beauty :

This plane is based on M37 made for Romania , it was called Bf 108 , in 1933 Luftwaffe made an order for a new fighter.  It had to fight with He112 . It lost the contest but Messerschmidt still worked on Bf 109. In later versions it was better than the He112 , and it beacame the primary plane of Luftwaffe.

Versions :

BF109 B: They had pretty weak engines , weighted 1505 kg , could fly with 465km/h , they were first teested in the home war in Spain .In 1937 the first series came out of the factory.It had only 2 mg's

BF109 C : It had a bit different engine than BF109B , weighted 1597 kg , it could fly with 470 km/h but it had better weaponary : 6 mg's and 2 20mm canons.

Bf109 D It had better engine than BF109C , weighted 1595 kg , Could fly with 499km/h it had only 4 mg's on board. (This is only model , I couldn't find a photo of real one).

Bf109 E It of course had better engine , but it had to have more fuel so germans had to give it bigger fuel tanks. It could fly with the max speed of 550km/h , It had 4 mg,s like version D , but later it was equiped with Additional 2 20 mm canons. That model was the most produced in the war.

Bf109 F : It had the same engine as version E (Wow , not upgraded !) but it had changed shape (Look at the photo).It's max speed was 635km/h. First version had only 2mg's and one 20mm canon , but later (F2) was equiped with rockets and another one (F4) was equiped with additional 15mm canons under the wings.

Bf109 G It had new engine (of course) . On the beginning it had same weaponary as version F , but later it had 13mm mg's instead of 7.9mm , and 30mm canon shooting through the engine instead of 20 mm canon. It also could take 20 mm canons under the wings , and 30mm canons also under the wings.Its max speed  was 660 km/h. It also had presurized cockpit so it could fly higher.

Bf109 K It had better engine , same weponary as the late G versions , Had changed propeller. It was the last Bf 109 , it could fly with the speed of 730km/h

Bf109 Z It was just a project and I think answer to american F82 Twin mustang , it was two BF109 connected by the wing. Under it i give you the photo of F82

I think they are pretty similar.

Alright , I know It's long , but I love those planes , they are really good , and almost every pilot was afraid of them. I think Germany during the WWII had the best technology... Here's an F version cockpit :

See ya next time !

//The Typical Loner