Greetings,
Have been reading up recently on the ME109 and its variants and came across the Messerschmitt 109 Turbo-Lader Strahltriebwerk ( turbocharger jet engine).
I can find plenty of 3view type technical drawings but not any photos of it in operational service.
So was wondering if anyone out there had a picture of the TL variant in their collection.
Regards and thanks for looking
Cliff
By: Cliffair - 23rd March 2006 at 11:41
Thanks for the explaination. Just goes to show you start a rumor and within a few years it becomes fact :confused: and that the Internet can give a few false trails when your trying to do a little research.
Interestingly I see that several kits of the ME109TL have been produced so that artical in scale modelling certainly started something.
Thanks again
Cliff
By: Malcolm McKay - 23rd March 2006 at 04:47
Greetings,
Have been reading up recently on the ME109 and its variants and came across the Messerschmitt 109 Turbo-Lader Strahltriebwerk ( turbocharger jet engine).
I can find plenty of 3view type technical drawings but not any photos of it in operational service.
So was wondering if anyone out there had a picture of the TL variant in their collection.
Regards and thanks for looking
Cliff
Many years ago Ian Huntly did an article in Scale Aircraft Modelling which offered a hypothetical chain of development, in sketches, of a Me109 being slowly transformed into a Mig15. That hypothetical Me109TL is similar to his first step.
It resembles the process by which Yakovlev transformed the Yak 9 into the Yak 15. The process worked with the Yak because it had a wide track stable undercarriage. I would suspect that a similar process with a Me109 (which had possibly the worst u/c design of any fighter in WW2) would result in an aircraft with the ground handling traits of a supermarket trolley.
Frankly I would be highly surprised if anyone seriously took the design further than a sketch – another example of the knapkinwaffe 🙂 .
The Czechs did use the Yak 15 so that’s where some confusion might lie. They also used the Me262 and built Me109Gs with Jumo engines because there were no DB engines available in 1946. Possibly the worst fighter aircraft that ever tried to get into the air. The Israelis used some as well – known as the Mule for its handling qualities..
By: Cliffair - 22nd March 2006 at 20:11
Oh Bum!
Wondered why i’d not heard of it before 😮
By: Skyraider3D - 22nd March 2006 at 20:06
Please see below for Evan Mayerle’s [b]fictional[/b] technical history of the Me 109 TL…
😀
By: Cliffair - 22nd March 2006 at 19:46
Hi Chad, SeaFury fan
Apparently it did fly as a backup to the ME262 project and post war was built in Czechoslovakia.
Like you SeaFury I had not heard of this variant before yesterday.
a brief history can be found here ====>
By: Chad Veich - 22nd March 2006 at 19:27
My guess would be that this was a “paper” airplane only which never made it to prototype stage.
By: Seafuryfan - 22nd March 2006 at 19:12
Sorry Cliff, it’s the first I’ve heard of this aircraft.
So the curious know what it looks like, here’s a Google result in model form.
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