109 test pilot shares his experience.

[SCG_motoadve]

A good read.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/guest-bloggers/newly-restored-messerschmitt.html?fbclid=IwAR1XJLipdTHBkc5Ca_jnD5A0pHPVxR3uTY6r-5bZleQKbAHeCE1ogsatYS8&chrome=1&A1c=1

[Charlo-VR]

Very well-written article!

[percydanvers]

Of all the things I've read about the 109, I think this article best articulates why I love it so much.

"Listen to a Merlin engine and hear a beautiful symphonic sound. Listen to the Daimler Benz engine. The recipe for recreating this sound is to start with a Merlin. Put in a racing camshaft, jack up the compression, and then garnish with the shriek of 1000 tortured souls that is the DB605 supercharger. It is simply the most pure and sinister sound in the universe. Being attacked by something with this sound would make me curl up in the fetal position on the floor and cry like a little baby. Any exposure to this instrument of war will permeate your soul and imprint itself there forever. It moves a person like nothing else. Non-aviation people who stumble upon it at an air show can be talkative and laughing around all the rest of the aircraft, but when they lay eyes on the 109, all go quiet, not knowing but feeling this unstoppable force that is the Bf109G."