On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, ANDY HOLT wrote:
**** I expect that quite a lot of Bf109s are currently being made
airworthy in time for the75th anniversary of AdlerTag … it quite
surprised me that there were more flyable than I might have guessed, but
none in the possession of the RAF or the Confederate Airforce - but I'd
bet that the Battle-of-Britain flight will have restored at least one
from the RAF museum soon. OK - fun question, when was the last time that
Bf109s and Spitfires were in genuine aerial combat (and who flew which
side)? (Last time both were flying in close proximity was probably
during the making of the film "Battle of Britain" in 1968/9)
I suspect in actual combat would be 1947 in Israel (as the S-199).
The aircraft used in the film were all Buchons, not "real" Bf-109s.
There are a surprising number (4+) of "new build" Bf-109G and K models.
They're "technically" restorations because they're building around an
existing data plate. A leader in this is Arsenal 45. They've already
finished the build of a brand new Bf-109K4. There are also a few people
involved with building brand new DB-601 engines based on scanned parts,
original engineering drawings and newly created drawings from existing
parts.
This ties nicely into this: http://www.simpits.org/geneb/?p=365
*huge grin*
g.
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