G6, MG 151/20, DB 605

[Ohotnik]

Hello gents, Griffin from Eagle Dynamics forums reporting in. Really looking forward to this sim and might pre-order it this month.
 
I just visited the aviation museum today here in Vantaa, Finland. They have a temporary "Messers in Finland 70 years" exhibition where they borrowed one of the two surviving Messerschmitts in Finland from it's home in Utti. Shame I missed the one day when they brought a StuG from armor museum there too. I took some pictures especially of the engine and the cannon, something you don't see everyday. Hopefully you'll find them interesting!

 

More high resolution pictures can be found on my Drive: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7JS_-OtBYkJY2pFU3V5UlJEMzQ&usp=sharing
 
The DB 605 A-1

 

The MG 151/20 is bolted to the rear of the engine and fires between the cylinder blocks through the propeller shaft.

 

Yep, it's the Gustav's fist!

 

I believe the cartridges are into this hole on the left side.

 

And the business end! The views through the propeller shaft. Sorry, it was difficult to get a good shot with top mounted flash.

 

And finally, the hero of the house.

[JaMz]

Nice pix m8

[thx1138]

Hi.

 

Yes THANX for the pic's ! As a model airplane builder this is nice to have !

[DB605]

Thanks for the pics! I'm also planning to visit there if i found some time before end of september.

[BMW801]

Excellent pictures. Thank you!

[HeavyCavalrySgt]

Nice pics, thank you.

 

It made we wonder how hard/easy it was to service those cannon and the MGs under the cowling.

[HeavyCavalrySgt]

Awesome what you can find on the Interwebz.

 

http://109lair.hobbyvista.com/techref/manuals/bf109g6u4.pdf

 

Looks like the 30mm cannon at least pulls out backwards into the cockpit.  I hope that big curved piece that forms the front of the cockpit is a firewall!  The machine guns are very accessible, once you get up there.

[FTC_Cule]

The cannon through the propeller hub was a deadly weapon indeed, due to accuraccy and reliability. In fact, that is exacly why the MG151/20 or later the MK108 were given such amazing fame. At the early versions of the 109 (C1-E4) the gun through the prop hub would be more of a uneccessary item because the weaker DB600 engine wold vibrate too much, plus the fact that most E3/4 versions would have already two 20mm autocannons in the wing.

 

However it was preety handy in the F,G,and K series, and yet some units would have gunpods in the wing to achieve even greater firepower.

 

I hope this helps!

By the way I have noticed that this 109 is a Bf 109/G-10, but... Why does it have the desert air cooling device installed?

sorry, a G6, not G10