Question for Bf-109K-4 tail wheel doors

Started by Tolga ULGUR · 3 · 11 years ago
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    Tolga ULGUR said 11 years, 1 month ago:

    Hi,

    I would like to know the real case about the Bf-109K-4 tail wheel doors.

    These small doors have to be opened or closed position when the aircraft stopped in the field..(Flaps down, canopy opened position)

    Hasegawa s kits fuselages (both on 1/48 and 1/32 scale) have opened doors. But in the most pictures, I saw that these are in closed position except for the abandoned and damaged aircraft.

    What is the reality ?

    a-Opened

    b-Closed

    c- All of them possible.

    d- Nothing (this option does not work 🙂 )

    To built them as opened position is a big shame?

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    Seamus Boughe said 11 years, 1 month ago:

    Tolga, I am not exactly a Bf-109K-4 expert, but I do know that a lot of Bf-109K-4s had their outer main gear doors removed and their tailwheels set in a fixed position. If the tailwheels were in a fixed position, I can see no reason as to why the tailwheel doors would be in an open position.

    According to the book "German Aircraft Landing Gear (A Detailed Study of German World War II Combat Aircraft)" by Gunther Sengfelder, the tailwheel doors of the Bf-109K-4 would only open upon retraction/extension of the tailwheel and, once in position (either extended or retracted) springs would close the tailwheel doors shut. So I think the closed position would be the most accurate.

    By the way, thank you ever so much for asking this question. When I purchased this book my wife asked me why I would spend $35.00 on a textbook about landing gear. I said, "You never know, it might come in handy some day". And so it has.

    Truth of the matter is, I bought this book because I found it to be so ridiculous that it was unique. I just had to have it.

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    Tolga ULGUR said 11 years, 1 month ago:

    🙂
    My wife also asking similar questions about my hobby purchases:)
    So I will try to ask different questions to you about the landing gear of different german aircraft.So you can amortize its price of that book .:):)
    Thanks for the reply
    Happy modelling