"One Summer -Two Messerschmitts" The story of TWO Daimler-Benz engined 109s

[@rubezahl8996]

The Merlin Sound ist great! But the Daimler Sound ist a Lot greater! Greets from Germany 👍

[@mariusuhde1708]

My grandpa told me that spitfire learned him how to swim. I brought him over to Duxford in 1999 where he met his former opponents who became close friends later. Now most of them are gone. Heartbreaking to see these old warriors standing there hand in hand honouring their fallen. We should never forget. Thank you so much for uploading.

[@KG-li7kg]

Ach, es haben auch sehr viele ME 109, den Spitfire Piloten das Schwimmen beigebracht. Kam immer auf den Piloten und auf das Glück an, wer in der Luft blieb.

[@mariusuhde1708]

Allerdings! Die Achtung des Gegenüber blieb davon stets unberührt. Das beste Manöver um einer Spitfire zu entkommen, war der direkte Sturzflug. Die Spit musste eine halbe Rolle fliegen, damit der Benzindruck bestehen blieb. Zumindest die frühen Varianten.

[@paulmitchell8706]

At last! Somebody has actually done a brilliant job by not including music or commentary on this video. I wish there were more videos like this one. Absolutely brilliant, lets have more videos like this one please.

[@ric_128]

The music is the engine noise

[@Panigale67]

Absolutely. I was there too

[@Bryan-cs9to]

The Bf-109 will always remain among my favorite aircraft of all time. Its awesome to actually hear what they sound like after all these years. Great stuff thanks for sharing!

[@robc3056]

When the starter engages.. unmistakeable

[@ianeric71]

I think in my past life, I was a bf109 pilot kia in the battle of britain in sept 1940 and reborn in dec 1940.I get such an intense feeling watching this video. it is surreal! fantastic production!!. I live in Barbados and I am a retired airline pilot. Loved it!

[@normannokes9513]

Brought back old memories. Crashed versions August 1940.Stiring times for boys... anxious times for parents.

[@mariusuhde1708]

Same! As a young kid a talked a lot about things that happened But nobody told me before. My grandpa asked if he had flown these machines or his grandson😂…..ok, i read a lot of books as well

[@jonathansteadman7935]

Same here, my dad took me to see The Battle of Britain, it affected me like nothing before. I've found pictures of the guy in my thumbnail pic. Some friends thought it was me dressed up when younger, image of me in my 20s. I absolutely believe he was me in a past life, and my lifelong obsession with WW2 aviation, especially when I came across an old copy of I flew for the fuhrer. It's the only thing that gets me teary eyed, I don't cry over anything, and haven't since I was a lad. I've seen more people talk about this recently,

[@charlieheathco7150]

I can relate, Was 109 pilot dduring the Spanish civil war 37-39 Reborn that Oct. Was sent back to Germany 1959 US Army.

[@PaddyPatrone]

Glorious video!

[@WingsTVChannel]

Thank you very much!

[@brucemacallan6831]

A beautiful sight seeing black 6 in the air. So sad what happened to her.

[@tonyriordan2853]

One of the best parts in this show is that the pilot flying BLACK6 opened the cowl flaps ensuring the engine temperature remained where it should be. Unlike its final flight where the pilot neglected to do so causing the engine temperature to climb, the pilot to panic and shove the thing at the ground. Nice piloting that

[@S2Sturges]

At around 35:00 it wouldn't take much t imagine the ground crew in Luftwaffe coveralls watching their 109's run up and ready for take off... absolutely marvellous

[@ThomasDoubting5]

Black 6 is a beautiful beast in that livery .

[@ricardoroberto7054]

Its at RAF Cosford now if you have not seen it.

[@JohnSmith-ei2pz]

@@ricardoroberto7054The scrap yard?

[@ricardoroberto7054]

@@JohnSmith-ei2pz what?

[@ricardoroberto7054]

Fantastic upload. Just the pure sound.

[@Aquanaut007]

Thank you very much for putting this video online! I have been waiting for this for a very long time.

[@toby5904]

Great to see this. I hope one day the Duxford Battle of Britain Airshow can invite one of the 109's that are airworthy in Germany. I appreciate seeing the Buchons but it just isn't the same.

[@reneschimbeno7644]

Vielen Dank für die schönen neutral gehaltenen Kommentare👍🏻 ich wäre so gern dabeigewesen

[@oscaraguirre602]

Hello good evening, great video with these amazing GERMAN aircraft, it must be rewarding to preserve and fly in this historic craft, I am an aviation fan since I was a child, and any related topic I am excited to know, thank you for your video, your friend Oscar.

[@WingsTVChannel]

Many thanks!

[@AC_WILDCARD]

I like how at 7:14 when they start the engine, the closed captions reads "music" heh yes it is music to our ears!

[@klausmuller8180]

Oh wow, I always loved this documentary! Thanks for uploading it here! Maybe „A Spitfires Story“ next? 😉😍

[@WingsTVChannel]

Thanks, unfortunately I have no way of clearing the music used in that film to put it onto youtube.

[@klausmuller8180]

@@WingsTVChannel okay, because unfortunately on the website in my account the video won’t play… everything else works, but this video won’t play and I don’t know why

[@P51]

That D-B is so smoooooth

[@mothmagic1]

Ah what memories. Black 6 at Duxford. I'm convinced that airworthy machines should not be donated to the IWM. They have a history of being given airworthy aircraft and immediately grounding them instead of keeping them flying where they belong

[@dietmarschellschmidt9712]

Amazing Video ! ... Messerschmitt Bf 109 " black 2 " ( long tail wheel ) is now " Red 3 " at Messerschmitt- Stiftung, Manching ( Germany) ...

[@KyleClarke-pj4dp]

Are there any updates on its repairs? I know it crash landed and hasn't flown since. Can't find any updates on its repairs. Same with the second 109 they have

[@dietmarschellschmidt9712]

@@KyleClarke-pj4dp ...yes, Black 6 is crash landed and not in flying condition...( Hendon Museum )

[@BetterAircraftFabric]

GREAT !!! - Regards from Alaska!

[@JohnSmith-ei2pz]

Was the Pilot the same pillock who crashed the Tri-star @ BZN?

[@paulgoodwin3642]

That pass at 38:45 made my neck hairs stand on end.

[@debsmith7861]

THE finest BF109 video presentation ever by miles. Love it!

[@WingsTVChannel]

Glad you liked it!

[@FiveCentsPlease]

+@debsmith7861 This is from a great DVD that was filmed in the mid-1990s. Although I do not think the DVD is still available for purchase.

[@daverbenson4834]

The Howl of That Supercharger Gets Me Every Time

[@MreViewer]

Saw this pair at the 1995 North Weald fighter meet, got about 20 seconds of video before the camera battery went flat!

[@johndavey72]

I had no idea that "Black 6" was still capable of flight . I assumed she was damaged beyond flight ("make certain you 3 point her!" ) and returned to display standard only. I do remember watching "Black 6" dicing with a Spitfire at Gloucester and their V12 's sounding remarkably similar although the Daimler Benz sounded much quieter than that beauttiful Merlin . Many thanks .

[@FiveCentsPlease]

+@johndavey72 This was filmed before the accident with Black 6 and her retirement. She is painted as "Blue 8" for some filming. Notice one of the "Blue 8" stickers has peeled off in flight. "Black 2" is now with the Messerschmitt Museum in Germany and is painted as "Yellow 3" after an accident and repairs.

[@mariusuhde1708]

8:03 - Gänsehaut! Can you bring a documentary about spitfire or typhoon? 109 and spitfire have one thing in common: a lady in the air and a bitch on the ground

[@robertvalek5990]

You have ME 109 on title. Messerschmitt was always Bf 109, all version. But it is nice documentary!

[@WingsTVChannel]

Thanks for the info! I didn’t notice that I’d put ME109 in the description at one point

[@Juno58]

You can say Me or Bf, both is correct. Even in wartime documents you can find "Me 109", as the pilots and ground crew then did. Kind regards from Germany

[@philipfieldhouse9229]

Willie Messerschmitt actually insisted it be called Messerschmitt 109 as bf109 were the first few built by the bf factory

[@jonathansteadman7935]

Makes we think Grey Eagles novel, was at Duxford when black 6 flipped and been non flying since.

[@axelackens2157]

The 109 is an elegant aircraft, but I'm a fan of the FW190.

[@stephen1137]

12:40 Who is Charlie Brown? You can't mean the American B-17 pilot of "Ye Old Pub", surely.

[@fireabend_1226]

Have the two aircraft already been “demilitarized” and how do the aircraft fly with the large weight savings?

[@Laser100man]

That Black 2: is she a G-10 or a G-14? Because of the later style cockpit canopy & modified vertical stabiliser.

[@ricardoroberto7054]

G14. Its not always easy to tell because they had so many changes in the production line interchanging parts before everything was standardised in the K

[@Aquanaut007]

It is a Buchon converted to a G10 with DB engine! A Buchon converted to a G14 is based in Heringsdorf/Usedom near Peenemünde.

[@ricardoroberto7054]

@@Aquanaut007 ah ok thanks I must have got the wrong one.

[@charleshultquist9233]

I don't understand why they didn't make the rear wheel retractable. It surely would have been worth the small amount of increased complexity for the gain in reduced drag.

[@christopherhankin6158]

was it a RAF pilot that couldn't land Black 6 and crashed into a ploughed field just the other side of the motorway

[@andreasrothgerber9572]

Ich kenne das Video von Flying Machines TV.....Großartig

[@shermansquires3979]

Sir John Alison is a friend of my dad. He was the pilot involved in the mishap with black 6 .

[@BlissSymphony]

There is a famous photo of Douglas Bader seated in a BF 109 when a prisoner of war, examining the cockpit. Looking up at him is a Luftwaffe officer. The photo has been faked to put into the German officer’s hand what looks like a pistol, covering Bader if he tried to start the 109 and escape. The opening sequence of this video shows how a 109 was started, and how impossible Bader’s escape would have been. The Bader photo was faked after the British received it to make it clear that Bader was neither a deserter nor a collaborator.

[@pierluigigiassi5246]

Do you know where these two planes are now?

[@ricardoroberto7054]

Black 6 is at RAF Cosford.

[@Juno58]

Black 2 is in Germany with new paint scheme.

[@grahamnash9794]

While the 109 will ever be seen as a thing of beauty, the Spitfire will always be the prettier and more charismatic of the two.

[@jonathanlewis453]

I guess you and I have both grown up to know these aircraft as schoolboy icons and to see them flown, meticulously, in largely sterile conditions for exhibition purposes. I can see and buy in to your standpoint but I think we must keep reminding ourselves that they were designed as weapons of destruction, their time and circumstances were corrosive of the human spirit and they themselves were places of mortal danger and death. It is wrong in my view to give the aircraft greater prominence and personality than the men who flew them and when the aircraft become more of a bauble and an entertainment than a window on the era, which gave being to them, I have to wonder what the point is. In one of my last conversations with my Grandmother, she described her nephew to me, who was killed in a Hurricane. “Thing of beauty”, “Pretty” and “Charismatic” are a misguided frame of reference for these artifacts in my opinion.

[@grahamnash9794]

@@jonathanlewis453 All very valid points, and that facts of these being killing machines had never been far from my mind. That being said, come forward a generation and the same thing occurs with the Vulcan, Valiant, and Victor. All deadly yet all beautiful. Yet when I look and see killing machines from the USSR and even Germany with an artists perspective I see more practicality then aesthetically pleasing designs. Yet these items of destruction all elements of beauty to the beholder no matter where we're from and who we sided with at the time. I was brought up soon after the war and so patriotism will always have an influence with me. Take a good hard look at a Lancaster, and really there's a killing device that isn't pretty at all, yet when I see one, I'm taken by seeing something that's so ugly, it's beautiful. Wwll, that me anyway, for what it is. Thank you for your reply, it's great to see their are still some based people about in times of division and open hatred Take care Johnathon.

[@PaulMSmith-u5l]

This might be off topic, but as a B-24 pilot in the 15th, my father saw plenty of 109s and also, of course, 190s. One remark he made I haven't heard elsewhere; he said there was nothing friendly about the German fighters. I replied well, sure, they were trying to shoot you down. He said yes, of course, but they were filthy, splattered with oil, not all clean and shiny like Allied figthers. The German crews didn't have time to clean them up, just refuel, rearm and off they went. He said the effect made them look particularly nasty and lethal as they screamed thru your squadron. @@jonathanlewis453

[@flypawels]

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[@nihilmiror6312]

The Spanish merlin engined versions were plane ugly! 🫣

[@nihilmiror6312]

What a privilege to fly these WWII wonder machines. So good they still exist as flyers. 👍👍👍🫡🇦🇺🦘

[@debsmith7861]

Corgi made a fantastic 1/32 die cast replica of the bf109g. Still findable on Ebay. 9 in all. Have all 9. Graf and black6 my favs.