Comments by "FiveCentsPlease" (@FiveCentsPlease) on "The History of The Messerschmitt Bf109 u0026 The Sea Hurricane | Restoration Classics" video.

  1.  @favoriteblueshirt  The radiator door was at the wrong setting and the guest pilot boiled the coolant. Then he came in too fast and botched the emergency landing. Regardless of the landing accident, Black 6 was scheduled to be permanently retired and parked in a museum. It just did not retire gracefully.
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  2.  @andypandywalters  "Black 6" was never going to fly indefinitely. The original plan was to fly for a season or two and retire her permanently. If I understand correctly, the unfortunately incident was on the retirement flight ironically. Today there is a Bf-109E that is airworthy in the UK and a G or F that is in restoration. And I think another Emil that is still in restoration is owned by a UK collector.
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  3.  @KB-xq6yv  I re-read the accident report and the radiator selector switch was also tricky. It was easy to set it a few degrees off and not have proper cooling settings. The switch should have been replaced with an NOS unit if they had known about the problem earlier.
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  4. +Cees Espee There wasn't much left of WW2 German aircraft and little knowledge and parts to build them. Restorers had to start over, although that knowledge has increased over the last 25 years.
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  5. +white 14 Three "E" variants flying now. Although the third is lurking in the shadows in Germany without any published photos. A fourth Emil is about two-thirds finished before flying.
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  6. + Dave Bolig It's the other way around. The company began as Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG and was reincorporated into Messerschmitt AG in 1939. Following the naming standards by RLM, the 109 has a BF prefix when it was designed. After the company became Messerschmitt AG new aircraft used the ME prefix, but both ME and BF were acceptable for the Bf-109.
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  9.  @DL6UK  I believe either D-FMBB Bf-109G-6 (FMBB) or D-FDME Bf-109G-10 ("Black 2") was the first Bf-109 to return the air with a DB engine in the mid or late 1980s in Germany. Both aircraft are still around but both are undergoing extensive work are are not flying. "Black 2" is now painted as "Yellow 3" and I think FMBB is currently for sale. Both reside at the Messerschmitt Museum.
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  10. +Matt Kurke There's a book on the Black 6 story, by Russ Snadden, although I don't own it.
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  11. +Andreas Giasiranis Yes, crashed and repaired. Retired to museum display, which was the original plan for it.
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  12.  @Xlaminator  Approximately nine airworthy with DB engines, but some of those are down for repair and work. Another will fly in a few years, raising the number to ten. And another dozen or so in very slow rebuild with hopes to fly.
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  13. +Anthony Tolhurst The original plan was to retire it for permanent display. The pilot flipped it on the last flight after an in-flight emergency, but it was repaired and retired for display per the original plans.
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  14. + dehoe disc Also it was too expensive to fly all of the aircraft home so they were scrapped in place. B-17s were staged for the possible invasion of Japan but with no need for them they were scrapped in Arizona. The war was over and that generation wanted to move on so with the new jet age it was inevitable that those planes would be forgotten. The ones which survive today were pressed into National Guard duties or foreign service. One speculator bought B-17s and sold the gas left in them, because the fuel was worth more than the planes. In the Soviet territory, Statin was eager to modernize the Russian military and he explicitly ordered everything scrapped for raw materials for new production.
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  15. + russell According to your channel you own a moped.
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  16.  @DiscusRussell  Because there are currently only eight flyable G models registered to fly in the world, some of those down for repair. Six of those are with sponsored museums in Germany, Mr. Yagen owns one at his museum and Erickson flies one with an Allison. And there's G restoration to fly in France. I call BS on your BS.
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  17. +Chris Persson The pilot had some hours on it, but came in too fast on the emergency landing. The engine was quitting so he didn't have a go-around as an option.
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  18. +Donn Hughes I believe that Rolls Royce sponsored the engine overhaul. To this day, BMW and Diamler Benz tiptoe around their WW2 engines and do not offer technical assistance. Much of the engine work today is done in California, but there is also a good expert in Germany that keeps them running. Bf-109 display pilot Walter Eichhorn got his ground instruction from Eric Hartmann himself back when Hartmann was still living, so there are probably other examples of knowledge sharing. Very good warbird and engine builds have started in Germany now with local expertise. And there is also good restoration work in Russia now, so expect more Russian types to be rebuilt, and I'm hearing there might be an effort to get a Tu-2 flying.
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  19. +N26FE If you count the ones that have been under service and repair, there are six in Europe, with number seven coming together.
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  20. +N26FE Closer to 10 if you count Buchon conversions, although some are down for work. And there should be two more Bf-109E flying soon.
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  21.  @creeksquadnation2129  Nine is about right, although a few of those are down for long-term work. Soon to be ten. Roughly a dozen more in slow rebuild to fly eventually.
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  22.  @Crashed131963  Indeed, Adblock Plus does wonders.
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  23. +orange70383 Yes. The radiator door was not open to the correct setting and the coolant boiled. Then the pilot came in too fast on the emergency landing and flipped it. It was already planned to retire the plane to a museum before the accident, so it was repaired and placed on permanent display.
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  24. + dehoe disc General Hap Arnold wisely recognized the need to preserve examples of those aircraft which is why some were collected and stored in a hangar in Chicago, and eventually all donated to the Smithsonian museum. I don't think the idea of civilian ownership of warplanes was even considered until surplus sales of all of that military gear began.
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  25. +Adrian Goede A DVD was made although I do not know if it is still available.
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  26. +Barbosa003 There's a hardcover book about the restoration of Black 6 that you can buy.
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  27. +paul kindler The Spanish 109s and 111s were offered for sale after the movie. Most of the 109s found homes but very few for 111s were sold and were scrapped.
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  28.  @littlejimmy8744  Paul Allen's museum has a 2.111 that is coming together, which I assume will fly eventually. It''s got Merlins on it for now.
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  29. +DWH BOI The DB-605 V12 is 2176 cubic inches.
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  30. +timj41 No Tempests or Typhoons are flying. Weeks has a Tempest project and there are two (maybe three) Typhoon projects.
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  31. +The Journeyman There's an untouched one in original paint still in Australia.
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  32.  Big Dirt  Yes, very unlikely that the remains of any DB engine resting in saltwater for 50 years were usable for anything but static display. Allen's restorations usually source several engines for parts and fabricate what they they need. For the Fw-190, they located six BMW 801 engine cores to get enough correct parts. For their new Stuka project, they obtained at least ten Jumo 211s and researched others for correct parts. (Allen's museum is building several Jumo 211s I believe.) There is a Jumo 213 that is almost ready to run although the plane for it is gathering dust without any current work. Another 213 was almost finished in Germany when the owner gave up and sold the project. I think Allen's museum missed a couple of opportunities to grab another Fw-190D project offered for sale and get one in the air for the collection allowing them to keep the D-13 on the ground.
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  33.  @nursesteve2004  "White 14" is BoB Bf-109E that is currently airworthy. A super rare "Condor Legion" Bf-109E from the Spanish civil war will fly in a few years.
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  34.  Phil Earl  Only one WW2 original Fw-190 flies and has the BMW engine. The Flugwerk Fw-190 replicas were sold with ASh-82 engines, although at least two buyers installed R-2800s instead.
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  35.  @jagtan13  I think I read recently that the owners of the Bf-109E at Planes of Fame may just leave it as-is instead.
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  36.  @jagtan13  Me too.
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  37. + Cam Hunt Three Halifax survive worldwide, none flying. One intact Valiant survives, several Victors, and several Vulcans.
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  38. + 375GTB Arguably it was still mostly wartime original parts, and not a Buchon conversion or rebuild.
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  39. +Stephen Morgan The Russell Group sold the Bf-109E a couple of years ago. It' is now in the UK and has returned to flying after engine and propeller servicing. It's flying out of Biggin Hill.
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  40. +waikukujk All of the BoB Buchons and CASA 2.111 were retired and put up for sale after the movie. Most of the Buchons (Bf-109s) found homes with collectors, but the majority of the 2.111s did not find buyers and were scrapped. But some of those 2.111 are still around.
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  41. +dogiit1 No new 109s have been constructed. If you count up the number of surviving examples in museums worldwide, the number comes to around 80. Plus a decent amount of wrecks left in situ that may never be recovered or restored.
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