Messerschmitt Bf-108 B (c/n 1561) D-EBFW / D-IBFW oldest flying Messerschmitt airplane on the world (built 1937) engine: Argus AS 10 C/E - V8 with 260 hp wingspan: 10,62m max. wight: 1380 kg max speed: 300 km/h
@@705547 I like this. My dad let me take the controls in it, when I was 13 years old. Long before it was rebuild to this beautiful plane. Before this, it was flying in Denmark as OY-AIH. Great times,- daily after school, I went to his garage, repairing cars, motorcycles, trucks etc. In weekends we were flying his Bf108,- or trying to fix it :) Once,- some strange fault was there. My father could not find the problem. Everything, -wires and tubes in the cockpit was off,- trying to troubleshoot. An old guy was watching, offering his help in german language. 10 minuttes,- everything fine again. He once was a mechanic in Luftwaffe during WWII ... still had all the wires and tubes in his head, decades later. This is the guy who bought it from my father. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JYToRRKtf_g.html
@@705547 Thanks, nice to know. I haven't seen the plane since I was a teenager, but I'm still thinking about it and the nice hours I had with my dad. Fantastic plane, tons of soul and history. Lots of noise :)
Sometimes, I wish the mouth-flappy announcers would say, "Now I am going to be quiet for a few minutes so you can enjoy the sound of the "" engine running up and taking off.
Gorgeous airplane and flown so smoothly! The Bf-108 certainly was ahead of its time with its radical, for the 1930s, retractable landing gear. Incredible aircraft!
I really like the Taifun and appreciate any that are in civilian paint scheme in fact my favorite is the original colours as they left the factory I am not a fan of the military paint schemes I know they were used during the war but as they were designed as a sports tourer I think the original colour scheme reflects their intended use and qualities better. I do not have any such reserves about 109's being in camo though
This "Vorfahrer"/predecessor of the Me-109 certainly looked like a fighter, in general. Its design was created to have the --potential- to be a fighter? Sleek and beautiful.
D-IBFW is the registration the plane had when it was new in the 1930s. Since the 1950s the D-Ixx registrations are for multi-engine planes (2to - 5,7to), and the Bf-108 has to have a D-Exx registration. Those historic planes are allowed to have their original livery. Same as for example the Lufthansa Ju-52 D-AQUI/D-CDLH.
@@705547 I saw the guy cranking the centrifuge starter. Thats what got me to thinking about it. I have seen this type of strater on all kinds of things. I had a dozer years ago with one. And one of the tanks in ower collection has it. A M-5 with a radial motor.
Sneaky Nazis built these planes (which could only be for civilian use from WW1 treaties) knowing they could be turned into fighters. This became the 109 fighter...
Not exactly. The 109 was in design almost immediately after the 108 flew. Same designer so it's natural there would be engineering crossover between two different low wing single engine aircraft. The 108 was built as a sport aircraft - not for any specific military application. It's not like the 108 was converted into a fighter. Messerschmitt just carried over some of the 108's engineering because it had been tested and worked.
@David Kopp You can blow that "the nazis weren't so bad" revisionist crap out of your ass. Discounting inconvenient facts doesn't and never will rehabilitate the nazi brand or otherwise cogently argue for a victorious 3rd reich. I've talked with a multitude of people in that war, including Albert Speer almost 50 years ago, and combat soldiers and airmen, including a past President and Senate Majority Leader who also served. This shit has been looked at, studied, and turned inside out for the last 70 years but there has always been those "speshul" cretins holding onto some jackass contention that the reich wasn't as murderous and fucked up as the people who lived through it knew. Just a pack of willfully ignorant dipshits. The moment the nazis came across your Jewish name you'd have been removed in the name of racial purity, and you're just too ignorant in your "speshul" knowledge . Yeah, blow that shit out your ass, Adolph.
@David Kopp You can blow your "the Mainstream media and fake News and Hollyweird " straw men out of your ass as well. If you want to soak in your alternative history, that's your prerogative but I'm not going to waste my time watching trash on yourtube but feel free to present the broader points here, which I will read at my leisure, which supposedly show how the nazis weren't murderous criminals and how everything would be so much better had they not been overthrown, as they were. If the nazis had won it would have been just a matter of time before the Kopp family was removed - they were pretty efficient at that sort of thing.
My father had another - OY-AIH. I tried to take the controls when I was 13. Never forget it. Marian did a major mistake. He bragged about how short distance he needed to land the 108. Comming in, very very slowly, he saw spectators waving like mad on the field. He thought it was because of his brilliant flying .... it was not, he forgot to lower the undercarriage, people was trying to stop him :) BOOOM !!! :)
