Me Jaguar

Me 110 “Jaguar” Photo

I am reading a book about the history of the Battle of Britain which includes a BoB pilots reference to an attack he made on an
Me Jaguar. I read extensively about this period and this is the first reference I’ve heard of such an aircraft.

The book describes how the pilot hit his port engine – presumably a twin engined aircraft. It also states the aircraft rolled on his back and dived!

Any ideas/comments?

Just came across this image and, remembering this thread, thought I’d post it here.

RE: Me Jaguar

Do you remember the bomber that the channel 4 Time Team dug up that was what they thought this one had done when it lost its way in the clouds.

Also heard a story of a pilot who looped and rolled his commercial liner just to show the capabilities to a load of buisiness types and was summoned before his boss after landing who said to him ” What the bloody hell do you think you were doing , if the public knew that the aircraft could go upside down the would never go on plane again.”

Actually I would feel safer knowing it could do it if need be.

Anway the pilot replied that he did it because he could. Simple and straight forward answer. Dont know if he kept his job or not.

So if a liner can do it so can a bomber.

regards Merlin

RE: Me Jaguar

Hi Rob,
I see no reason why a Do17 shouldn’t be able to roll on it’s back,either as a controlled manouver or otherwsie.The ‘Flying Pencil’ was amazingly robust,and it was extremely fast in a dive,some accounts telling of 17’s running away from persuing Spits and Hurris.
Generally speaking,the majority of larger aircraft are more manouverable than we give them credit for.For instance,there are stories of Lancasters being barrel-rolled!It would even be theoretically possible to loop a number of today’s airliners.

RE: Me Jaguar

Many thanks

the early DO17 theory sound reasonable, however, the book states the aircaft ‘rolled on his back’. Could a DO17 do that?

RE: Me Jaguar

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 06-09-02 AT 05:48 PM (GMT)]Hi Rob,
The Jaguar was indeed called the Bf162,but to the allies it was always referred to as a version of the Me110.Although the type existed,it’s thought that the type never actually flew operationally over the UK,so it’s been suggested that reports of ‘Me110 Jaguars’ being attacked were probably early versions of Do17 with inline engines.These were occasionally used for weather recce and general ‘snooping’,so the one in your book seems more likely to have been a Do17.
Hope this helps

“Beware of the Hun in the sun”

RE: Me Jaguar

Hi there Rob

The Me Jaguar (Bf 162) was a twin engined light bomber used by the Germans early in the war. It used 2 DB 600Aa engines producing 986 hp each. It had a fairly handy bombload of around 2000lbs and a top speed of around 450-500km/h.

If you go to [www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/bf162.html] it will tell you everything you need to know.:) Its says here that it was derived from the Bf 110 you can see the resemblence.