Some shots from the restoration of the Evergreen Museum’s BF 109-G10/U-4 restoration (they were also doing another one at the same time), one wound up at the Air Force museum with a non-airworthy engine, the other at the Evergreen museum where it was SUPPOSED to have been flown but the untimely death of Del Smith’s son in a motor cycle accident (he was to have been the pilot) put paid to that plan…
These shots appeared in FlyPast some time ago…
Mark
By: Corsair166b - 17th January 2005 at 03:21
Well….you can’t argue with the end result…Darrell and his boys (Stan Hime, Larry Will and Lyn Phillips) did and CONTINUE to do a great job on restoring these old birds, they are currently working on an A6M3 Zero for the Evergreen museum which when it is finished will be a beaut. And yes….it is a tragedy (literally) that the Messer that was supposed to fly for Evergreen never will…but it WILL continue to look as good as it does in Dennis’s pics for those who venture to see it, as I hope to some day.
Mark
By: DaveM2 - 16th January 2005 at 20:03
The biggest shame ( crime) was that they removed all the original skins and threw them out…they were not up to airworthy standard, but were perfectly good for static.
Dave
By: T J Johansen - 16th January 2005 at 17:40
Here’s a few pics (taken Nov 2002) of Evergreen’s Bf-109G-10. The engine overhaul cost Evergreen $400,000 (if I remember right from a 1997 interview) but I don’t think it was ever run after being mounted on the aircraft.
Dennis
What a shame. Restore the old gal to this great condition and then to not fly it… 😡 I remember going up to Ft. Collins in 1994 and photographing both 109s in Skurich shop. Looking forward to the day they would fly. Then the knowledge that neither of them will. That’s just great. :rolleyes: Hope Ed Russel will fly his. And if I’m not mistaken Craig Charleston should have a couple on rebuild that might take to air. Someday, hopefully….
T J
By: D. Bergstrom - 16th January 2005 at 16:17
Here’s a few pics (taken Nov 2002) of Evergreen’s Bf-109G-10. The engine overhaul cost Evergreen $400,000 (if I remember right from a 1997 interview) but I don’t think it was ever run after being mounted on the aircraft.
Dennis
By: dbrown - 16th January 2005 at 07:18
Check out this CD with over 1,200 photos of the G-10 restorations
Hello,
There are over 1,200 printable Hi-res photos on the Restorations Illustrated Me-109 CD. You can see it here at
http://www.buffiesbest.com/me109_cd.html
I even got pictures of the bird while still in the Yugoslavian markings!
(you can read the reviews by following the link)
Hope it helps those that like the nuts-n-bolts approach to photo documentation.
Cheers,
Derek
🙂
By: Stieglitz - 13th January 2005 at 18:54
Yes, the quality of the restoration done on that engine is very good. It could very well be the airworthy one. 🙂
J.V.
By: Corsair166b - 13th January 2005 at 18:48
Not sure…never knew which was which and only learned later that only one would work. I THINK the photo above is of the working one…
By: Stieglitz - 13th January 2005 at 18:39
Are those pics on the non-working DB or the possible working DB?
A ME109 is always nice to look at! 😎
J.V.
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