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No, there is not enough
room in the subject rule above to include all details / correct designations and the like. ...having myself made very clear
to possible "nick-pickers", on with the subject. The video, only available on Facebook for now:
https://www.facebook.com/eacmadras/vide ... 048315906/You guys have been very patient and she's finally finished and has started test runs!! The restored ME109
It is this aircraft:
http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbird-res ... pdate.html
Click on the link for photos.
The aircraft concerned isThe Erickson Aircraft Collection recently contracted Pacific Fighters to undertake an airworthy restoration of the Buchon, converting it to more closely resemble a Messerschmitt Bf-109G.
While the Buchon and ‘109 are identical in most respects,
there are some significant structural differences,
particularly with the powerplant and its cowlings.
Much of this was dictated by Hispano choosing the more available Rolls-Royce Merlin engine over the inverted-v Daimler-Benz DB605 engine of the earlier Bf-109.
The engine choice dictated a radical change in the shape of the Buchon’s nose.
Converting a Buchon to appear like a Bf-109 is relatively straight forward if you have a spare DB 605 lying around,
but since the engine is as rare as hens teeth,
and costs a small fortune to make airworthy even when available,
Jack Erickson has opted to go a different route.
Pacific Fighters is converting the Buchon to use an Allison V-1710 engine,
but having an engine mount and exhaust system specially designed
to perfectly mimic that of a Bf-109
once housed beneath the correctly profiled and detailed cowlings.
HA-1112-M1L c/n 193 C.4K-130 (N90602)