Hurricane VS ME-109 Dogfight

[Kaben]

British Hurricane dogfights with German ME109 during an aerial display at the Victory Show 2011.
I have never been able to capture an acceptable dog fighting shot so i was very pleased with this one so i thought i would share - even if its not quite perfect.


This particular Hurricane actually flew during the battle of Britain. I am not sure about the ME109's history.

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[Byker28i]

Great capture, what an opportunity. They do look almost like toys.

 

[MARK AMIES]

I thought the same thing! Very impressive.

 

[Kaben]

I have been corrected (and this is confirmed from the event program) that the ME109 is actually a spanish variant named a Buchon.

That partiular Hurricane flew 49 sorties from Croydon and shot down five enemy aircraft During the Battle of Britain.

 

[digitalfailure]

There's a few easy ways to spot a buchon, it's got the Rolls Royce Merlin engine in, so it sounds like a spitfire, the Me had a Daimler Benz that sounded rougher and lower in tone. Also the exhaust ports are at the top of the engine cowling a la spitfire, the Daimler engine is inverted, so the ports are at the bottom.

I don't think there are any Me's flying in the UK with the Daimler engine since black 6 had a heavy landing.

I'm envious of the dog fight shot too
I had a hard drive fail a few years ago that took some shots of a spit and a faux Me having a play over the Duxford museum.

 

[MARK AMIES]

Here's a You Tube of a Bouchon-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3MtwfO1_Yk

I think they used ex-Spanish airforce ones in the flying sequences in the 1969 Battle of Britain film.

 

[erding]

Nicely captured.

 

[Kaben]

Nicely captured.

Thanks

And thanks for the info DigitalFailure, Mark.

That sounds gutting about the HDD failure too