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Project
Messerschmitt Bf 109
"Yellow 3"
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Gunnar busy loosening the brake
lining from the rest of the wheel hub. Even if these
parts have not been immersed in water, corrosion was
detected in certain areas. It is important to stop
corrosion at this stage before putting on new finish. In
the long term it is good economics for the museum to do
a thorough job now rather to have to redo the whole
process of preservation a few years time from now!
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08.02.2012 |
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From our friend in England, Edward Taylor, we have received two
fully operational position switches for the landing gear
indication. Both will be put to good use in our “Yellow 3”
project. Thank you so much, Edward!
Published
06.02.2012
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Ivan is busy attaching the frames in the cockpit area.
Published
02.02.2012
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Our “Yellow 3” team have made more parts for the cockpit
structure and Ivan is busy drilling holes for the rivets and
bolts in the firewall area of the cockpit section.
Published
02.02.2012
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Daimler Benz DB605
engine team
In a town south of Bodø, a group of ten enthusiasts are
restoring the Daimler Benz DB605 engine from “Yellow 3”. This
project is monitored by our Curator, Birger Larsen. Their
workshop is located in the premises of MoMek, a local
engineering company.
Our engine team at Mo i Rana have managed to dismantle the first
of the cylinder banks from the block of our spare parts engine!
From the pictures it is easy to see that they are all working on
the “YELLOW 3” project! Well done!
Published
31.01.2012
The first picture shows the
crankcase now WITHOUT all the broken bolts. Picture number two shows the original crankshaft, like new,
now ready for installation.The assembly of the
engine is due to start soon!
Published
31.01.2012
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The mounting frame for the FuG 7
radio system is ready to receive the electronics. The
frame is the original frame from “YELLOW 3” with few
repairs. An original set of FuG 7 radio transmitter and
receiver were some time ago collected by Klas Gjolmesli
from the Trondheim area. Most of the smaller details are
also in store.
Published
31.01.2012
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Per Stoltenberg is busy doing
restoration on the upper landing gear doors on our
Yellow 3 project.
Published
25.01.2012
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Plate for FuG 25. The original was installed in the aft part of
the fuselage but was too much damaged for restoration. This one
was found on Ebay, repaired, painted and is now ready for adding
the FuG 25 frame and wiring details.
Published
20.01.2012
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Yellow 3 is a mix of both small and large parts. Here you see an
example of a part before and after restoration. Seen is the
position indicator switch for the main landing gear. This switch
is now fully operational.
Published
18.01.2012
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Asbjørn Borge has just finished the preservation of the one
original tire recovered from Yellow 3! The quality is
surprisingly good after all these years at the bottom of the
sea! A second tire has been collected elsewhere and will be used
to make the landing gear complete.
Published
18.01.2012
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All the broken bolts from the DB605 crankase are now removed and
put on display on the wall of the workshop.
Sometimes you do a lot of work with little progress to see. The
broken bolts in the picture is just one such example.
But in the end the last of the broken bolts are finally removed.
Young Rosendal and Hansen looks satisfied with their work.
Parallel to this work is going on with the removal of useful
parts from the spare engines. Here one of the cylinder linings
together with the nut fastening the cylinder to the block is
removed after a lot of hard work.
Published
18.01.2012
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Bjørn arrived yesterday evening from Tromsø and is busy doing
some welding on some new structural parts for the Yellow 3.
Through the years Bjørn has done an important job of repairing
original magnesium/aluminum parts. By doing this he has saved
us a lot of money and problems in finding replacements.
Ivan is busy doing last details son some of the framework inside
the cockpit section. The two yellow parts are original parts
from Yellow 3. Now almost ready for riveting.
Published
18.01.2012
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A newspaper clipping
about the Messerscmitt project (Click on the pictures below):
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Sola Museum have made the last engine mount for our Yellow 3. We
supplied an original and they have made one more for us as well
as two for their Bf109 project. Already several other details
are made for the Sola project here in Bodø and we can surely say
that the cooperation between our two museums have speeded up the
process of restoration as well as saved us a lot of money.
Published
11.01.2012
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Tor Olsen is busy planning the next step in the rebuild of the
radio mounting frame for the Yellow 3.
Published
10.01.2012
In the works: Two map cases for the Messerschmitt. One for us
and one for the Sola Museum. The original was too corroded to be
reused.
Published
10.01.2012
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The main landing gear mountings are almost ready for
painting. Only a few small details are missing.
Birger Larsen are
busy forming the cockpit framing on our “Yellow 3”. Still
several hours of work remains.
Published
10.01.2012
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The small part in front of the cockpit framing has been
manufactured. (Not painted in the picture.).
Splitting
of the aluminum in the two aft corners will be repaired by
welding.
Upon arrival of our welder, Bjørn Meyer the finishing touches
will be made.
A part of the cockpit framing (over the fuel tank top) has to be
manufactured from new. For now, the original ensures a correct
fit. Note the screws holding the decking. Note that the cockpit
section is manufactured upside down.
Published
10.01.2012
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New faces in the workshop! Two of the girls from the
Aviation School of Mechanics are having an interest in
helping us with our many projects. Here they are having
a first introduction into the fine art of restoring the
landing gear of the “Yellow 3”!
Published 22.11.2011
Ivan is busy with the last details on the carry-through
spar for the “Yellow 3”. The spar has to be completed
before we can start the assembly of the front fuselage.
Excellent work!
Published 22.11.2011
Many details are to be made before we can assemble the
front part of the fuselage. Here Jack Benjaminsen is
busy working on a copy of a part made for strengthening
the area around the ammo guide for the MG151. The box
for the ammo is located in the left wing but the MG151
itself is installed in the fuselage. The original part
was too corroded to be reused but could be used for
copying.
Published 22.11.2011
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Published 29.08.2011 |
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The carry-through spar is ready to be incorporated into the
fuselage. The tubing at the front is housing the jacks for the
flaps. Ivan has also completely restored this detail.
Published
14.12.2011
One for the Sola Museum and one for Bodø! Some riveting and
welding has to be done before putting on the finish. The
original is to the front in the picture.
Published
14.12.2011
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The cockpit section of our ”Yellow
3” is screwed together! Original longerons and
sideplates are used together with screws and nuts to
ensure the structure is correct. (Like the old Meccano-sets.)
After this, the section is put in a jig for final
alignment before riveting. Old, not reuseable parts are
removed and replaced by new ones before riveting.
Published 29.08.2011
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Rudder ready,
only wires for the taillight missing. .
Published 22.06.2011
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An update on "Yellow 3"
Published 24.01.2011
Since the
raising of the ”Yellow 3” in 2010, we have used a lot of man
hours to preserve parts and to plan for the restoration. A great
numbers of details are preserved or restored to be used
in the rebuild of our G-2. Details like a complete
steering system, complete trim system, windshield,
flooring and lots and lots of other details are already
having a “second life”. We have dismantled the main
landing gear legs and the final touches will be done not
long from now. Several of the other details will be
finished a short time from now.
We are now
into the process of transporting the wings to Hungary.
The tail end of the airplane is almost ready and planned
to be returned to us last days of this month! The aft
part of the fuselage is to be built in Germany. A
further cooperation on the rebuild is possible.
Our
“subdivision” at Mo I Rana is busy with the engine.
Our
cooperation with the Air Museum at Sola is resulting in
a mutual exchange of parts to our two G-2 projects.
Due to the
fact that we have had a Bf109 G-2 as a project several
years now, we have in our storage a great many of
details ready for installation. These details will be
incorporated into the project as we go along. Stay tuned!
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Messerschmitt Bf 109 raised
Published 25.05.2010 Updated 07.06..2010
The Messerschmitt
Bf 109
G-2/R6 “Yellow 3” was raised 22 May.
Since the location of our “Yellow 3” last summer a lot
of planning and preparations has been done to ensure
that the recovery could be done in a safe way. When you
are dealing with an airplane that has been in the sea
for nearly 70 years you can never safely assume that the
structure is strong enough to withstand the loads of
lifting. You are always working with a lot of unknown
factors and each of these factors will have an effect on
the success or failure of the total operation.
Several days
before the recovery, the Nærøy Aquaservice and the Folla
Diving Club had connected the main lifting straps. At
the Norwegian Aviation Museum, special strengthening
plates to go around the leading edges of the wings had
been made. The main lifting straps were to go on top of
the plates together with attachments for additional
strapping of the engine. We planned to hoist the
airplane almost to the surface and then turn it to a
horizontal position when still submerged. It was not to
be! The first problem emerged when it was not possible
to secure the engine by using straps attached to the
propeller blades. The mud on the bottom was simply too
hard for digging. It then became necessary to use straps
wrapped around the engine instead. This method was used
as an emergency because we very much wanted to have the
engine as well as the propeller to the surface in one
operation. The main lifting straps were installed the
week before the recovery but the extra straps securing
the engine were installed the day of the recovery. To
unstuck the “Yellow 3” from the bottom, a load on the
winch of nearly ten tons had to be used. When you know
that the normal empty weight of this airplane is a
little more than 2.5 tons, you can well imagine the
loads imposed on the structure!
After being unstuck, the weight of the airplane was 6
tons. Deduct from this the 2.5 tons of “clean” airplane
and you have the weight of the silt collected inside the
structure through the years!
The recovery vessel
“Camilla” left Rørvik harbor at 9 in the morning. The
“Yellow 3” broke surface at 12 and the vessel was back
in the harbor at 1530. Deduct from this 2 hrs of voyage
to and from the wreck site and you have the actual
working hours. This is includes the strapping of the
engine. To then say that the whole operation went
smoothly is an understatement! It was brilliant and
performed in a very professional way from all involved.
The extra straps added to secure the engine was not
sufficient in order to keep the engine in a straight
line to the fuselage. The 20 mm Mg151 gun is protruding
almost half a meter through the firewall and into the
cockpit. Because the engine shifted somewhat to the
side, this gun got stuck to the firewall. Due to the
limited space on the deck of the recovery vessel, the
gun could not be unstuck at the site safely. A decision
was then made to hoist the airplane on board as it was
and to keep it vertically hanging from the crane with
the engine resting on the deck of “Camilla” until safely
ashore. This decision however, prevented us in removing
the securing strap on the tail of the airplane until
“Yellow 3” was lowered on to the pier. Because of the
rather bad condition of the tail section, a calculated
risk was made to have a go with this strap still
fastened. Because the most important part for us to
salvage was the front end of the fuselage, it was
important for us to have this part as intact as
possible. We finally managed to disconnect the gun and
the engine from the rest of the airplane before hoisting
it on to the pier.
The lowering of the
airplane to a horizontal position was almost a success
but as expected the tail broke loose when in a close to
horizontal position. The breakage was at the point of
attachment of the securing strap and at the (for us)
best point where you had the least damage to salvageable
parts.
A team of more than 18 volunteers from the Norwegian
Aviation Museum and the Bodø Aviation Historical Society
(BAHS) together with several others from the Rørvik area
did the dismantling of the aircraft. First-aid
preservation to the parts was made at the pier before
transportation to Bodø. The wings are still awaiting
transportation to Bodø. Because of an ongoing strike in
the transport sector we do not know when we can expect
them arriving at the museum.
The last week has been quite hectic with permanent
preservation to the most fragile parts being performed.
Still we have a lot of work to do until we can relax a
little in our activities of preserving all parts
recovered.
Already an
agreement on the restoration of the wings at Karl
Birczaks workshop in Hereg, Hungary is finalized. As
soon as we can have the still useful parts from the
wings of “Yellow 3” transported to Hereg, this part of
the rebuild will start. Also in principle, an agreement
of the rebuild of the tail section will most likely
result in the aft part of the fuselage being made at
Hartmair Leichtbau in Freising, Germany.
A local team
will have a go on the DB605 engine, starting as soon as
they get organized with tools and workshop.
If all goes
as planned, this indicates a hectic year ahead for a lot
of people!
A special thank you goes to the Nærøy Aquaservice and
the crew aboard the “Camilla” as well as the team from
Folla Diving Club for their great help and
professionalism in this operation. Without them this
addition to the collection of the Norwegian Aviation
Museum has not been possible. Also the positive attitude
from the local community of Rørvik was instrumental for
the successful outcome of this operation.
The
Norwegian Aviation Museum has decided that the
Messerschmitt Bf109 to go on show inside the museum some
years from now will be “Yellow 3”. This will be a
fitting tribute to the locals from Rørvik that made it
all happen!
►Video from the raising of the Messerschmitt Bf
109 at namdalsavisa.no (In Norwegian)
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Preparations for
the recovery of the
Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-1 have started
Published 27.04.2010 Updated 29.04.2010
We have started the preparations for the
recovery of the
Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-1,
“Yellow 3”.
The date is set
to be May 22nd.
The Messerschmitt
is to be raised nose down in the water to a
depth of a few meter from the surface. Here the
airplane will be turned to a flat position more
suitable for hoisting. New straps will be fitted
for this operation to secure that the engine
will not come loose from the fuselage.
The pictures shows the system and the straps for
the first phase of the recovery. To do this in a
safe way, special plates have been manufactured
for strengthening the leading edge of the wing.
►
Project Messerschmitt Bf109 G-2/R1
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aviation-history.com - Messerschmitt bf 109
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1943. Photo: Kjetil Åkra and
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Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-1”Yellow 3” is to be raised
Published 18.01.2010
At a
meeting March 13th between
representatives from the Folla Diving Club and the
Norwegian Aviation Museum, a decision was made that
the Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-1, “Yellow 3” found in the Risvær area last summer is to be raised May 21st
– 23rd.
The
Folla Diving Club is supplying a large vessel from
the Nærøysund Aquaservice. This vessel is to be the
main headquarter in regards of the recovery. As
additional equipment the club will supply a ROV and
most of the necessary equipment related to the
raising.
A
“basecamp” is planned at one of the islands closest
to the position of the wreck. This will make
possibilities for visitors to follow the recovery
from a relatively close distance. Visitors are most
welcome as long as they are self supplied with
tents, transport and food and as long as they do not
interfere with the recovery.
We
will, as we go along with the planning, supply you
with more information on this page telling about
this special event!
 
Photo: Lasse Iversen
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Type: Messerschmitt Bf109 G-2/R-1 Serialnumber: 14649
Technical data:
Length: 9,05 m
Height: 2,60 m
Wingspan: 9,92 m
Normal weight: 2700 Kg
Max speed: 623 Km.t
Max height: 11750 m
Range: 725 Km
Motor: Daimler Benz DB605 A-1
2 x
MG17 + 1 x MG15, 2 x MG151 under the wings
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