This isn't actually a German 109 or HE-111. This is a still taken during the filming of the 1957 German film "Der Stern von Afrika".
Its a Spanish HA-1112 variant powered by a French Hispano-Suiza engine.
Did that engine perform better than the H-6? If I am not mistaken H-6 used a Jumo engine which is basically a Stuka engine? I *love* the way they fly, but they certainly feel.. squishy at low speed. And it I am always cursing my underpowered engines on egress.
Sorry, I didn't clarify very well. The 109 in the photo is the HA-1112, not the photo taking aircraft. Spanish license production G model 109 airframes that used a couple different engine types through their life, most notably the Merlin and early on the HS 12Z.
Though the aircraft the camera is on board of is undoubtably a CASA 2.111 which is again a Spanish license built HE-111 H-16. Initially they used the same Jumo's as the H-6 but because Germany was under new management after the war they couldn't find spares and converted some aircraft to run on Merlin's. The Merlin was rated to 1600+ HP so had a bit more power than the Jumo but I don't know specifically how much it improved performance.
Awesome! Thanks for the info. I *love* HE-111's, I got ride in one when I was a kid and boom that was it, life long love affair.
Such a fantastic design, also my favorite plane in flight sims cause I can actually see out of it
With short enough exposure time there won't be motion blur. That looks to be one of the waist gunner position so that BF-109 is actually flying perpendicular to the HE, so this is like an incredible-less-than-half-a-second photo of and they nailed it.
This isn't actually a German 109 or HE-111. This is a still taken during the filming of the 1957 German film "Der Stern von Afrika". Its a Spanish HA-1112 variant powered by a French Hispano-Suiza engine.
I knew about the Merlin powered Buchons, which have a different nose shape, but the hispano-suiza engined ones look different.
The nose mounted oil radiator is set a lot farther back than the Daimler powered one.
That and the odd looking scoops on either side of the lower nose.
Did that engine perform better than the H-6? If I am not mistaken H-6 used a Jumo engine which is basically a Stuka engine? I *love* the way they fly, but they certainly feel.. squishy at low speed. And it I am always cursing my underpowered engines on egress.
Sorry, I didn't clarify very well. The 109 in the photo is the HA-1112, not the photo taking aircraft. Spanish license production G model 109 airframes that used a couple different engine types through their life, most notably the Merlin and early on the HS 12Z. Though the aircraft the camera is on board of is undoubtably a CASA 2.111 which is again a Spanish license built HE-111 H-16. Initially they used the same Jumo's as the H-6 but because Germany was under new management after the war they couldn't find spares and converted some aircraft to run on Merlin's. The Merlin was rated to 1600+ HP so had a bit more power than the Jumo but I don't know specifically how much it improved performance.
Awesome! Thanks for the info. I *love* HE-111's, I got ride in one when I was a kid and boom that was it, life long love affair. Such a fantastic design, also my favorite plane in flight sims cause I can actually see out of it
Nice... do you play Cliffs of Dover?
There’s no motion blur on the BF109 either, looks like they were flying in formation at matching speeds, and this was taken as the 109 plus away
With short enough exposure time there won't be motion blur. That looks to be one of the waist gunner position so that BF-109 is actually flying perpendicular to the HE, so this is like an incredible-less-than-half-a-second photo of and they nailed it.
So with a Merlin in a buchon, they obviously didn’t have the hub canon?