[Karl Spooner]

Great well done story. He certainly has a high opinion on the ME 109's.

Thanks for posting.

[yarddog]

I remember in his biography, Erich Hartman preferred the ME-109 to the better performing FW-190. After reading this, I wonder if the 190 really was the better performer.

I do know that late in the war the Germans had developed a really powerful engine for the BF-109. I think something like 2000 HP which should have been a real terror in such a small plane.

[tanknetter]

They aren’t Bf 109s. They’re Bouchons ... post war Spanish made knockoffs fitted with Merlin engines.

Neat planes in/of themselves, but nowhere near as valuable as authentic Bf 109s are.

The PBY is an interesting bird. It was painted in special commemorative colors in the mid 1980s for the 75th Anniversary of US Naval Aviation and flown across the Atlantic to reenact the first transatlantic flight.