Bf109 test data

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Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

I would take Luftwaffe data only as confirmed data, Wiki or old books are not always to be regarded as reliable to be honest.


"It clearly points out"................nothing




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Actually, this is not an 'old book', it is not one of Heinz Nowarra's 1960's era collection of misinformation, it is one of the newer generation of published works on the 109. Second, I would take the information of a published author as reliable and only discredit it when primary sources disagree. In this case, the primary sources are incomplete. There are two original pages of the V15 test available, (Blatt 4 and 6)and one page mostly transcribed by Kurfurst, (Blatt 5) with only small sections from the original page shown. None of them includes the weight of the aircraft or the details of the armament or equipment.

Another note re. V15:

As mentioned, neither the 109E1 or 109E3 were in production when V15 was constructed, so it was impossible for it to be modelled on them, they didn't exist. As anyone who has looked at the history of the 109 knows, the 'V' designation indicates a prototype or test aircraft.