Apparently there are only 3 Me 110-G4 in existence all night fighters. One is of course at Hendon Museum the second is at Berlin, 4th is in Denmark at a private collection and a junk pile is up in North Sweden...
a very good condition bf-110 night fighter this had search radar called the lichtenstein radar towards the latter stages of ww2 german radar scientist had made major advances in airborne radar tracking and homing in on british bombers they took a heavy toll on raf bomber command the british radar scientist countered with ''Serrate ''detecting and homing on the german night fighters radar transmissions using a mosquito night fighter as bait it would leave its tail a long cable where the german night fighter would pick up on its radar and home in on it thinking it was a bomber not releasing it was a british nightfigter out hunting it the mosquito would turn sharply and get behind german aircraft then rows of 20mm cannon fire would unleash destruction in seconds sending the aircraft down in a mass of fire this was the air war RAF bomber command endured each mission to the end along anti aircraft guns (flack) and other types of german night fighters quipped with more advanced radar ,He 219 nightfighter was considered the best german night fighter of ww2 the RAF captured one and evaluated it capabilities against the best RAF night fighter the Mosquito and concluded comparable as effective had the war gone on longer many more british bombers would have been shot down at the war's end 47.000 British/commonwealth bomber aircrew were killed ( however) it could be higher then that according to other figures researched 57 .000 were killed that's considerably more then the american 8th air force bombers flying daylight missions over Germany figures of 36.000 killed couple of factors to consider is British aircrew had to complete a minimum of 30 combat tours before been released some did more infact if theses figures are correct another reason is British aircraft designers of the time designing Heavy bombers like the Lancaster, Halifax, short striling, didn't give to much to crew consideration regarding crew habitability and survivability they were given a less consideration and more on production and were notoriously difficult for the crew to bale out in a emergency The accounts of surviving RAF aircrew tell of the difficulty baling out of a burning out of control bomber the tailgunner had the worst of it it was not a enviable position to be in when the bomber is going down centrifugal forces pinning you to the aircraft and preventing you baling out to overcome theses force must have been a terrifying experience ,, where's relatively speaking more thought was given to crew of American bombers B17 flying fortress and B24 liberators by the plane designers survivability and baling out it would suggest that the American crew had a higher survival rate then British crew getting out
Not sure, but did that BF110 have the Schräge Musik installed? Seems to match a Wikipedia photo of a BF-110 G-4 very closely showing a Schräge Musik installation.
Thanks for posting these updates on the revisions at Hendon. The former display of these airplanes in darkness with colored lighting is long overdue for improvement.
Excellent colour scheme and quite an aid to the Germans at the end of the war.. Glad to see it has the full original decals and has not been touched by the 'woke, snowflakes'... Of course the RAF and the USAF did overcome all obstacles and successfully brought the horrors of war to the German homeland ..
The exhaust manifolds are quite unusual, I suspect it had to do with being a night fighter. Exhaust flames and cherries red manifolds were easily seen at night.
unfortunately this example is not a fly worthy and not likely to be back in an condition of fly worthy...As far as I know, there are no fly worthy Bf-110 today, really hope we will be able to see her in the sky...
This is the night interceptor version, as evidenced by the paint scheme, flame dampening engine exhausts, and "deer antler" radar interception antennae in the nose. the armament also included twin cannon in the rear gunner's position, angled 90 degrees upward. The British bombers, which flew at night singly in a long stream, (rather than combat boxes of American bombers who flew in daylight) had no belly gun turret, so the BF-110s would slide underneath them and fire at the engines or fuel tanks. Normally, the first warning the bomber crews got was the bangs of the cannon shells ripping into their aircraft. The 110 was too vulnerable to fly in daylight due to its low speed and increasing American fighter escort formations accompanying the bombers, but was deadly in its role as a night fighter.
The upward firing cannons were known as "Schräge Musik" by the Luftwaffe and were particularly lethal. Isolated use and first kills in May 1943, formally adopted in time for the August 1943 RAF raids on the Peenemunde V-weapons complex. A similar system was adopted by the Japanese and used on the Mitsubishi Ki-46 "Dinah" twin engine fighter (amongst others) in roughly the same timelines, although I have no idea what they called it.
The job was to eliminate nazi Germany.. They had already caused the death of millions.. The German people wanted war and glorified it when it was going their way.. Unfortunately millions suffered but the RAF had a job to do... Crush Germany in all senses.. They were the heroes.. The aircraft is not 'a hero'... It was only delaying the inevitable..
Man könnte meinen sie würde gleich starten. Wie viele von diesen wunderbaren Maschinen haben sich gegen den Terror der Angelsachsen und Angloamerkaner gestemmt. Ich habe mich einst sehr lange mit einem Piloten einer Me-110 unterhalten können.
do you think the Germans wished they had a Mosquito? Yea , , no comparison last i checked . Need to get my durafly bf110 out again for another test hop
@@vrosi1963 No it wasn't. RAF was so scared, they specifically bombed a chemical plant which only produced a special glue used for the lightweight frame.
