Bf109T - deck trials

[Snautzer]

https://www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com/me-109-t-1.html
Picture just before start.

[pvanroy]

Originally Posted by Snautzer

https://www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com/me-109-t-1.html
Picture just before start.

But these well-known pictures do not show an actual Bf 109 T-1. The machine in the pictures is Bf 109 B-1 W.Nr. 301, which was used as a development aircraft for the Bf 109 T, specifically for catapult trials (note that no arrestor hook is installed). It was the first B-1 built by Erla, in April 1937, and received civil registration D-IKAG. After its conversion to a T development aircraft, it was taken over by BAL in Augsburg on 25 June 1938. For its catapult tests in Travemünde, it received the Stkz. TK + HM.

[bearoutwest]

Originally Posted by pvanroy

..... The machine in the pictures is Bf 109 B-1 W.Nr. 301, which was used as a development aircraft for the Bf 109 T, specifically for catapult trials (note that no arrestor hook is installed). It was the first B-1 built by Erla, in April 1937, and received civil registration D-IKAG. After its conversion to a T development aircraft, it was taken over by BAL in Augsburg on 25 June 1938. For its catapult tests in Travemünde, it received the Stkz. TK + HM.

Thanks @pvanroy, that was what I was hoping for in terms of a caption/details.
...geoff

[pvanroy]

Originally Posted by bearoutwest

Thanks @pvanroy, that was what I was hoping for in terms of a caption/details.
...geoff

You're most welcome. I can greatly recommend Graf Zeppelin's Eagles - it's a much expanded and updated version of Francis Marshall's earlier works on the subject. Even if you do have Sea Eagles, you still won't regret buying the new book - not just for the new information it contains, but also because of the much higher production quality and reproduction of images.

Returning to the 109 T, interestingly, while at one point or another several aircraft were fitted with full carrier equipment, the only photographs that I am aware of showing a Bf 109 equipped with both arrestor hook and catapult points are of the V17 (a converted C-1, W.Nr. 1776, originally built by Mtt Augsburg in February 1938, D-IYMS / TK + HK).