Messerschmitt Bf 108
Type: Liason, light transport
Manufacturer: Bayerische Flugzeugwerke
Designer: Willy Messerschmitt
First flight: 1934
Introduction: 1935
Retired: 1945
Number built: 885
Crew: 1 or 2
Capacity: 2 or 3 passengers
Powerplant:
Dimensions:
Weights:
Performance:
Manufacturer: Bayerische Flugzeugwerke
Designer: Willy Messerschmitt
First flight: 1934
Introduction: 1935
Retired: 1945
Number built: 885
Crew: 1 or 2
Capacity: 2 or 3 passengers
Powerplant:
- Model: Argus As 10C
- Type: V-8 inverted air-cooled piston engine
- Horsepower: 233 hp
- Number: One
- Propellers: 2-bladed variable-pitch propeller
Dimensions:
- Length: 8.29 m (27 ft 2 in)
- Wingspan: 10.5 m (34 ft 5 in)
- Height: 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in)
- Wing area: 16.4 m2 (177 sq ft)
- Airfoil: root: NACA 2416; tip: NACA 2413
Weights:
- Empty weight: 806 kg (1,777 lb)
- Gross weight: 1,350 kg (2,976 lb)
Performance:
- Maximum speed: 305 kph (190 mph)
- Cruise speed: 260 kph (160 mph)
- Landing speed: 85 kph (53 mph)
- Range: 1,000 km (620 mi, 540 nmi) at 250 km/h (160 mph; 130 kn)
- Service ceiling: 6,200 m (20,300 ft) (with 3 pax + 50 kg (110 lb) baggage)
- Time to altitude:
- 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in 3 minutes 12 seconds
- 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in 7 minutes 30 seconds
- 3,000 m (9,800 ft) in 14 minutes
- 4,000 m (13,000 ft) in 22 minutes
- 5,000 m (16,000 ft) in 39 minutes
- Wing loading: 82.3 kg/m2 (16.9 lb/sq ft)
- Power/mass: 0.133 kW/kg (0.081 hp/lb)
Sources:
Gunston, Bill & Wood, Tony - Hitler's Luftwaffe
, 1977, Salamander
Books Ltd., London
Wikipedia: Messerschmitt Bf 108
Gunston, Bill & Wood, Tony - Hitler's Luftwaffe
, 1977, Salamander
Books Ltd., LondonWikipedia: Messerschmitt Bf 108
