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AvH 1% Version 4 Bf-109G 10DC JG-52 is released (Read 571 times)
Dec 20th, 2007 at 12:09am

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Bf-109G-10DC GUSTAV
CFS3 - V4.00.164

This aircraft was built by Gregory SARGE Pierson using the Version 4.00.164 AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process.  It is based on the stock Bf-109.

Dan Swart has painted the G-10 as  "White 3" in the  81/83/76 scheme with a narrow yellow factory fuselage band flown by  II./JG 52 in February 1945.   The pilot of White 3 is Leutnant Heinz 'ESAU' Ewald.  The logo of the "E" and the pig on the side of the plane was created from his nickname "ESAU"

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He joined 5./JG-52 in Russia as a young Unteroffizier in the late summer of 1943 and flew with them for the entire duration of the war.  Always regarded as one of the finest of the young pilots of JG-52,  he flew as wingman to Major Gerhard Barkhorn, Kommandeur of 11./JG-52 who was the second highest scoring Ace in history.

Heinz Ewald scored his 50th victory on December 29, 1944 when at Veszprem in Hungary. He flew a total of 396 missions and scored 84 victories. He was awarded the Knight's Cross April 1945.

The Bf 109G-10 was the final variant to enter Luftwaffe service. It entered production after the Bf 109K, and was intended to be a lower-cost supplement to the thoroughbred “K” series.

The Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10 series was unusual in that it consisted of new and remanufactured airframes of earlier model G's equipped with the more powerful Daimler Benz DB 605D series engine. As a result, there was little standardization beyond the common use of the Erla-Haube (or "Galland Hood") improved vision canopy. Even so, the G-10 proved to be the fastest G model.

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