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Old 10-16-2012, 01:04 PM
Al Schlageter Al Schlageter is offline
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Originally Posted by zapatista View Post
lol you want to quibble over 10 cm on a 10 meter wide object ?

from memory, its either 9.98 or 9.89 the last time i looked, close enough if you want to be pedantic, with the various 109 models over the 6 years of the war i am sure there would have been some further variation in wingspan, for the purpose of the discussion in this thread the few cm creating a 1% error dont really matter
It is still NOT exactly 10m. It is approximately 10m.

Your memory is faulty, as the Bf109E had a wing span of 9.9m. With the new wing on the 'F' model, the wing span increased slightly to 9.925 m.
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