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Summary: Messerschmitt Bf-110 aircraft Airplane blueprint for the Messerschmitt, Bf-110 ... Aviation history and aircraft blueprints/plans. In 1936 the Luftwaffe published specifications for a long-range strategic fighter. The Messerschmitt Bf 110 was designed in 1934 and made its first flight on 12th May 1936.
The Messerschmitt BF 110 was an all-metal twin-engine aircraft, with a three crew housed in a long enclosed cockpit. Powered by two Daimler Benz engines, it had a maximum speed of 336 mph and had a range of 680 miles. It was 39 ft 7 in long with a wingspan of 53 ft 4 in. The aircraft was armed with 5 machine-guns and two 20 mm cannons.
In April 1940 a small formation over Oslo destroyed the few Gladiators sent against them; then, as the troop transports that were to take over the airport had not appeared, they boldly landed and captured the airport by sheer bluff.
But in the Battle of Britain the big fighter proved itself almost as vulnerable to Spitfires and Hurricanes as were the bombers it was supposed to protect.
Fortunately for the Luftwaffe, the twin-engined Messerschmitt Bf 110 was now available in quantity after its humiliating defeat as a fighter escort in the Battle of Britain. It possessed good blind-flying instrumentation, good speed and manoeuvrability, and a heavy armament (two 20mm MG 151 cannons and four 7.92mm MG 17 machine-guns) for dealing with heavy bombers. The Bf 110 became Germany's most numerically important nightfighter, and was produced and utilised right through until the end of the war.
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