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Messerschmitt Bf 108B Taifun Yugoslav Royal Air Force S-10 Kraljevo 1940
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Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun
The Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun was a German single-engine sports and touring aircraft developed by Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (Bavarian Aircraft Works). The Bf 108 was of all-metal construction.
- Role: Communications aircraft
- Manufacturer: Bayerische Flugzeugwerke
- Designer: Willy Messerschmitt
- First flight: 1934 Introduction: 1935 Retired: 1945
- Primary user: Luftwaffe; Armée de l'Air; Manchukuo National Airways
- Variants Produced: Nord 1000; Nord Noralpha
- Number built: 885[1]
Specifications - Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun
Data from Jane's AWA 1938[6][6]
General characteristics
Crew: 1
Length: 8.3 m (27 ft 2 in)
Wingspan: 10.5 m (34 ft 5 in)
Height: 2.3 m (7 ft 6 in)
Wing area: 16 m² (172 ft²)
Empty weight: 806 kg (1,775 lb)
Loaded weight: 1,350 kg (2,976 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Argus As 10C air-cooled inverted V-8, 240 PS (174 kW)Performance
Maximum speed: 305 km/h (190 mph)
Range: 1,000 km (620 mi)
Service ceiling: 6,200 m (20,300 ft) with 4 people and baggage
Rate of climb: 5.21 m/s (1,194 ft/m) to 1,000 m (3,048 ft)
Wing loading: 83.4 kg/m² (17.1 lb/ft²)
Power/mass: 0.133 kW/kg (0.081 hp/lb)Armament
Guns: 16× 0.303 inch (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns, 2× Browning 0.5 inch (12.7 mm) machine gun
Bombs: various defensive and offensive munitions, including bombs, mines and depth charges carried internally and, some, winched out beneath the wings. Manually launched flares, sea markers and smoke-floats.
IL-2 Sturmovik 'Cliff's of Dover and Blitz' - COD game skins
Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun
- Keith major-setback MS COD Bf 108B Taifun RYAF S-07 Kraljevo 1940
- Keith major-setback MS COD Bf 108B Taifun RYAF S-10 Kraljevo 1940
- Keith major-setback MS COD Bf 108B Taifun RYAF S-12 Kraljevo 1940
- Keith major-setback MS COD Bf 108B Taifun RYAF Generis Kraljevo 1940
- Keith major-setback MS COD Bf 108B Taifun RYAF S-12 Kraljevo 1940 V0A
- Setback's skin, of the They represent 3 of the twelve aircraft delivered to Yugoslavia before the contract was cancelled by Germany.
They were used for transport and training at Kraljevo in 1940.
MS major-setback/restranger- Setback's skins are included in the new Tobruk game
IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad - has no 3D model
Kraljevo Map
Messerschmitt Bf 108 Citations: +
- Smith 1971, p. 142.
- Schulz, R. and W. Pleines. "Technical Memorandums No. 760 - Technical Aspects of the 1934 International Touring Competition (Rundflug)." National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, December 1934. Retrieved: 13 March 2010.
- Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun
- Smith 1971, pp. 36–37.
- "Airplane Gallery: Bf 108." Valiant Air Command. Retrieved: 12 November 2012.
- Grey 1972, pp. 136c–137c.
Messerschmitt Bf 109 operational history Bibliography: +
- Craig, James F. The Messerschmitt Bf.109. New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1968.
- Cross, Roy and Gerald Scarborough. Messerschmitt Bf 109 Versions B-E (Classic Aircraft No. 2, Their History and How to Model Them). London: Patrick Stevens, 1972. ISBN 0-85059-106-6.
- Feist, Uwe. The Fighting Me 109. London: Arms and Armour Press, 1993. ISBN 1-85409-209-X.
- Grey, C.G. "Messerschmitt Bf 108." Jane's All the World's Aircraft, 1938. London: David & Charles, 1972. ISBN 0-7153-5734-4.
- Hitchcock, Thomas H. Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun (Monogram Close-Up 5). Acton, Massachusetts: Monogram Aviation Publications, 1979. ISBN 0-914144-05-7.
- Smith, J. Richard. Messerschmitt: An Aircraft Album. London: Ian Allan, 1971. ISBN 978-0-7110-0224-1.
Web References: +
- Photographic Site Airliners.net: http://www.airliners.net/
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joe Rimensberger photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bf108-Rimensberger.JPG
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_108.htm
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