Kurfürst - Bf 109 Performance Resource site UPDATEs
 

The tactical trials section has been updated with detailed background information about Hptm. Pingel`s Bf 109F2 that was tested in Britiain in October 1941.

Kurfurst - Your resource on Messerschmitt Bf 109 performance

For those who are not familiar yet with my site, it also contains several trials on all wartime Bf 109 subtypes, including the Bf 109E you will encounter in Storm of War : Battle of Britain.

Thanks:cool:!

The F was very good wasn't it.

The F is certainly my favorite 109.

New stuff, and more BoB related, too.

Baubeschreibung für das Flugzeugmuster Messerschmitt Me 109 mit Daimler-Benz-Motor DB 601.
ca. 1939.
(The official German specications and tolerance on Bf 109E performance. Gives maximum speeds, climb times, turning radius and take-off/landing distances for the 109E-3.)
In German.

Kurfrst - Baubeschreibung fr das Flugzeugmuster Messerschmitt Me 109 mit DB 601.

500 km/h at sea level for Bf109 E-3? These sounds very otpimistic!

quote from this page

Check here - trials with V15a prototype (Bf 109E-1) :

http://kurfurst.allaboutwarfare.com/...w_109V15a.html

In particular measured, and corrected speeds achieved :

http://kurfurst.allaboutwarfare.com/...15a_blatt6.jpg

The higher speed figures show the aircraft`s speed at the engine`s guaranteed output - the engine was bench tested before the test and was somewhat down in power output.

But keep in mind manufacturer had +/- 5% tolerance on those speed figures. So production Emils were anywhere between 475 and 525 km/h, this kind of scatter is normal amongst serial aircraft.

RAE report on Bf 109E-3
 

Hi,

A new material has been added, a British interception and translation of the original

Technical Sheet issued by the Quartermaster General (AIR Equipment) - DB 605 engine in the Me 109 G. Berlin 18th June 1942.

The new material can be found under the Powerplants section.

http://kurfurst.allaboutwarfare.com/..._June1942.html

A new, very through and detailed British evaluation report on the Bf 109E-3 previously tested by the French in France. This may well be very interesting reading until we get our hands of Storm of War: The battle of Britain, since it is the E-3 type players flying for the Luftwaffe will fly as a fighter.

It has been posted at : http://kurfurst.allaboutwarfare.com/...ls/Morgan.html

You may also discuss the report or my site in this thread: http://kurfurst.freeforums.org/rae-m...s-t70.html#315

We also celebrate our site`s two-year old existence this weekend with a little facelift. Wink

We had in the past two years over 31 000 visitors and over 100 000 individual page loads.

Thank you all for your time, interest and support !

Enjoy!

Cheers,

KF

Salute

As has been mentioned previously, if you are going to make these claims, the requirement is to post COMPLETE, UNEDITED, ORIGINAL documents of the test, not excerpts which have been edited or cropped as the material on Kurfurst's page clearly has. I have to ask why he does not post the original material and insists on cropping the documents and creating his own diagrams etc.?