ME109 Engine Failure Headcorn 2014 Buchon 109
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- čas přidán 24. 02. 2015
- BEFORE you moan on the quality of the footage spare a thought it was shot open screen on an IPhone 3s in bright sunlight so bare that in mind when you say the footage sucks!! Better still if that’s how you feel keep it to yourself!!
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Pilot made sure he did not put himself in an unrecoverable situation in the event he lost power and that gave him time and altitude to get back down in one piece. Very professional.
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Upside down not really recoverable , these wooden apparatus should fly for sure , straight AND level . Aks that dude at Shoreham he’d agree
OUTSTANDING airmanship getting that back on the ground dead stick after a mid display engine failure. Superb quick thinking saved a valuable pilot and aircraft!
Bullshit. The airfield was underneath him and any glider pilot could have done the same without breaking a sweat.
@craigwall9536 Yep. Ridiculous. Obviously, not a pilot.
@@DannyBoy777777 yeah, the ass-kissing sycophants come out of the woodwork with that hero-worship crap.
@@craigwall9536 Not so long ago a real 109 was wrecked because the pilot panicked with a fully working engine, just because he left the cooling flaps in and the engine vented some coolant as it was designed to do. He rushed the landing and flipped the plane. So yes, this was an outstanding performance from the pilot.
Black6 took forever to get airworthy and 60 seconds to crumple!!!
This video was shot using an IPhone open screen and is 7yrs old. I know it’s rubbish footage but it was worth sharing. Please don’t bother commenting if you’re going to moan about the quality if it was a real camera then I’d expect better!!!
it was brilliantly filmed dw
I think u did good filming on the phone 👍👌
Stephen , you did great man . Getting it on camera is all that mattered . Good footage by the way , even if an iPhone was used . 👍
Great stuff, you got the shot, also superb flying. Thanks for sharing.
As a former low hours pilot and a photographer you did really well , a steady sweep,image in frame and keeping cool.
Excellent pilot. Sounds like a connecting rod broke. It helps to have that precious altitude when things go sideways in flight. Controlled, measured and immediate deadstick landing under harrowing mechanical failure conditions. Well done!
grande pilota
A good job piloting. The Me 109 has a glide slope like a brick.
70 year old equipment built by the lowest bidder. bound to happen but can't beat this ace!
The engine broke a connecting rod and there are other photos of the landing showing it covered in oil. Great job getting her back down.
Link to the photos?
LOL ----- good luck getting parts !!
@@justadreamin1004 It was repaired, although Merlin spares and parts are getting low. Rolls Royce did give permission for a vendor to manufacture brand-new Merlin heads specifically to support the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight aircraft. But RR refused another request to manufacture a batch of new Merlins.
@@FiveCentsPlease I wonder why they should refuse?
@@julianstafford7071 Roush Aerospace (Jack Roush) asked permission to manufacture some new Merlins but RR would not grant a license to make them. Not sure why specifically but it I'm guessing an intellectual property issue. Both Mercedes and BMW are very cautious regarding their WW2 activity (particularly forced labor) and distance themselves from their engines. But I feel they would also enforce their patent rights if someone were to manufacture new BMW radials or DB engines.
What a sound!!! Thanks so much for posting....
Plenty of altitude when the engine blew. Nicely done by the pilot. No panic. Just doing his job.
That was a superb piece of flying by John Romain.
Love those beautiful old war birds! Excellent airmanship.
I really see nothing wrong with the video quality, looks better than alot I have seen, thanks for posting
Nice that the machine got to the ground. Cannot afford to loose any more of these war birds.
This plane is a spanish replica of the Bf-109, not a real warbird. It looks silly and doesn't have anything in common with a real Bf-109.
@@atrium8609 Check your facts and history. Not a silly replica, the HA-1112 (Buchon) series is a true Me 109 G-2, licence built in Spain during the 1940's and 50's. German war effort could not supply DB engines so they used Hispano and later, post war Rolls Royce engines. Retired from Spanish air force service in 1965 the Battle of Britain film production bought many destined for the scrapyard. Thanks to that film several are still flying today. I prefer the look of an actual DB equipped 109, but they are far more rare in flying condition.
@@dazako falsche zelle
Let's not forget about my buddy, Chuck or Larry or whatever his name is.
They ALWAYS get to the ground. No matter what.
I was taught as a pilot to always keep an eye open to set my plane down if needed. Also taught altitude above you and runway behind you are worthless. Well done by this pilot to manage a beautiful dead-stick landing. These acft have the glide ratio of a brick.
Wonder what the sink rate/glide ratio is on a 109, as compared to a Spit, what with the considerable difference in their respective wing's areas?
A f 104 has a 1 to 2 glide ratio engine out
@@wolfganghuhn7747 What about the Spits?
@@zootsootful
"What about the Spits?" 🤤🤮
THAT, mein freund, better ask the Brits! 😊😊👍
@@wolfganghuhn7747 spoken like an uncalibrated wannabe. A lousy glide ratio just makes it easier to judge the approach. What really matters is stopping the descent during the flare... and with plenty of room, like here, you don't have worry about an overshoot.
All you turkeys imagine this is harder than it actually is. The glider pilots are all laughing their asses off at you.
Thank goodness both pilot and plane landed safely.
Been a while - still a great video and sound. Thank you.
Excellent cool flying...just a shame that that of an Air Vice Marshall did not have the same coolness and skill when he upturned Black 6
...and there was nothing wrong with Black-6, besides an incompetent pilot at the controls.
I order you to make me an airshow pilot, don’t bother with the books.
"Yeah, he's dead-stick... The engine's off..." Yup, thanks for that. That'll be why the propeller isn't going around and around, I expect.
I live near Biggin Hill and I vividly remember some years back on a Sunday afternoon at about 1.45pm a Cessna aircraft just skimming our roof with wheels down and no engine noise. I immediately rang 999. I thought the plane was coming back from France but it transpired it had only just taken off and while ascending the engines failed! The BG fire engine was tracking it after their Mayday call. The pilot couldn't get enough height to land in a nearby field. It crashed fully fuelled. When I spoke to the Air investigators a few weeks later as a witness I got extremely upset. It crashed in the next road to mine, demolishing one house and another home's garage. All 5 on board died, flames you could see for miles. The only positive thing was the people in the demolished house were on holiday and the people with the demolished garage were out otherwise the deaths would have been higher. The accident report I received almost a year later said the plane had had a huge refurb a month before the crash and a faulty fuel valve was the cause!
Some people would be happy to have taken this video good job. Great well trained experienced pilot too.
Wow! I didn't even see the Spitfire!!
Jonathan Lloyd Might have been a well placed 303 round from the ground.😉
@@todaywefly4370 One of the people in the audience holding a grudge against the 109? Good job on getting it down in one piece.
RC-Fan NL Yep, I was alluding to how the red baron copped it. By a single .303 round.
Stealthed Spitfire. Damn rare... :-)
That would be the Hispano Aviation HA-1112, the Bf109 airframe with the RR Merlin?
Sounds like a Merlin…..
You sir are correct
Correct
I thought it was a Merlin, we get then over Dover quite often, but in Spits.
Beautiful airplane nice vid
Pilot did an amazing job
A little tip, to steady your camera/phone, rest it on the fence post or other stationary object. Thanks for the upload.
Nothing wrong with your footage, you captured it well and a great job by the pilot.
LEGEND!!!! That’s how it’s done.
Espetáculo de máquina, lindo som do motor.
Nice dead stick landing
Beautifully well done.
I'm glad he was able to get it safely back on the ground.
The sound of Victory!
(Why could Spain not get any more DB 605s?).
Thank you for sharing
always run best before they let go.
Great job of energy management.
Speed is life, altitude is life insurance.
Thank you. I was there and wondered what happened.
Absolute Hero
You gotta have either speed or altitude, preferably both. You can trade some of one for the other, but not for long.
Well done ol' boy
Don't be bothered about the armchair expert's criticism of your filming. I reckon there would be quite a few flying schools around the world will use your posting as a great example of a non simulated engine failure. Well done for staying trained on it right to the end. Likewise to the pilot for a superb emergency landing.
cheers
ps. I am also sure the actual warbird fraternity would have watched your video with interest to study a perfect end result !!
lucky it happened when it did...plenty of height to sort out the return and fly the plane. Great job landing.
Luck had nothing to do with it. He could have lost that engine anywhere in that flight and still landed safely right there on the field. And anyone with a brain would have that sorted out before taking off. LIKE ANY GLIDER PILOT!
Ok, slightly aggressive response there.....but having worked with aircraft on and off throughout my life and done a fair bit of flying, it's clear that there are MANY cases of aircraft engine failures at airshows where the pilot did not make the airfield and force landed. A high energy warbird does not fly like a glider and despite the principles of energy management and trading speed for height etc....and proper planning, it does not always work out. The point I was making is that when that failure occurred, he was fortunate that it made the recovery less stressful as he had the field well within the zone to make a safe descent back onto an approach path, managing speed and distance.
Even glider pilots come unstuck despite their ability to ensure almost every approach ends with a landing and not a go around. Plenty end up in the hedge or the adjacent field ...I have seen it happen!
Have a nice day.😊
Tatsächlich so crazy. Seeing an 109 and hearing a Spitfire.
All we needed was a Spifire behind it to complete scene
I was there that day. A scary moment and some great skills by the pilot to bring the plane back down! 😊
Any safe landing is a good landing. Nice piloting.
It’s thrilling to hear the sound of these historic fighters…until they conk out. Glad the pilot was so good and the plane was saved. I can picture the old parachute…
Glad the pilot got it down intact! Apart from the blown engine that is 🤔
Well done John Romain pilot of the buchon
Did the engine require a complete overhaul incl. a new crankshaft?
+Pascal Chauvet A broken connecting rod can do a lot of damage, even making a hole in the engine and possibly splitting the crankcase. No doubt the engine would have needed major repairs or even replacement.
that's somewhat ironic, no?
@@davidparry8514 the spanish buchon 109s were fitted with Merlin's. The engine malfunction probably wouldn't of happened if it had the inverted mercedes engine. (He jokes).
Ground strike of prop yes that's usually the case
@@ivorharden I thought Spanish 109 are fitted with hispano suiza same as morane saulnier same era
That was impressive
Broken con rod ouch, expensive rebuild.
Might be a scrapped engine if it went through the case.
That pilot knew exactly how to apply "Energy Management" from the moment the engine failed to the precise landing on that runway. Remarkable.
strange to break a connecting rod, who knows why. great pilot landed with the landing gear, does anyone know why?
Stranger still the BBMF had to rebuild (reinvent) a burnt out Hurricane from scratch some years ago, because of a camshaft breakage. Camshaft is not your usual victim of metal fatigue!! Crack testing is used on crank, conrods etc but just occasionally something lets go in flight......These engines ARE reliable, but if you compare them to a Lycoming in failures per 1,000hrs then they're going to be seen as unreliable- if you see what i mean.
@@thephilpott2194 Rolls Royce still holds the license on the Merlin. They did grant permission to the BBMF to contract for a few brand new Merlin heads to support a few of their aircraft. But Roush Aerospace asked Rolls Royce if they could manufacture some new Merlins and RR said no.
Made a few dead stick landings myself on grass strips
think how many brave airmen had this during the war ,
Saw a similarly fuzzy UFO over New Mexico 10 years before his was taken...it was also able able to land safely (so much for the Area 51 'crash theory'), and then some fuzzy occcupants exited the saucer, were fuzzily beamed up to the mother ship? within seconds.
The saucer's remains self-destructed, fuzzily, in the aftermath. It was like bad dream!
Why was such a rare flight with Immelman turns only captured on an I-phone? Well, just like with UFO's, it was all the they had on them...
Hmmmm ..... an ME-109 with a Merlin ..... 45 + years ago I saw an ME-109 in a hangar at Tulsa that guy was working on. It had a Merlin. The guy said it was Pre-War I think. It flew in the Spanish Civil war? That was before the Daimler-Benz (or BMW?) was selected.
The pre war 109 B to D had smaller Junkers Jumo 210 inverted V-12 engines. Post war Fascist Spain couldn’t acquire any more of its preferred Nazi sourced Daimler-Benz DB 605 inverted V-12 engines for its locally produced 109Gs so they tried Hispano upright V-12s and later civilian transport quality R.R. Merlin 500 engines. The Spanish cowling for the Merlin was hideous.
Excellent for phone video...
That wasn't engine failure, that was a ghost Spitfire still patrolling the skies.
Well that's why it broke. It's one of those 109s with the Merlin engines. I'm sorry I had to haha.
Lucky to have the altitude and position to sort it out.
That wasn't luck.
@@GodfreyTempleton Without sufficient altitude there would be no time to clear the problem. A departure stall spin on takeoff, or loss of engine at takeoff are prime examples. The pilot was lucky to be positioned to dead stick a landing.
Not like you can order up another engine for the 109 from Amazon. The financial pain is severe .
At least the Buchon is Merlin powered. A few more of those around than the Daimler Benz in an original engined ME/BF 109.
No4, & No8 Cylinders. If u listen carefully, u can hear the exhaust note oscillation.
I checked the tea leaves😀
enough power !!
High wing load aircraft, landing that must have been unpleasant.
Well done pilot, ME109 is dodgy at the best of times I would not like to put one down dead stick.
A testament to a 50+ year old machine design and pilot skill! Love the sounds of a 109, nothing sounded more like a warbird.
More like an almost 80 year old plane.
You may well love the sound of a 109 but this is described as a Buchon. These were Spanish built post war with a Rolls Royce Merlin engine which is very different to the Daimler Benz 605.
Now theres nothing like the sound of the mighty merlin engine. That sounds like one???
DB 601 or DB 605
Your ear serves you well! This aircraft is a Hispano “Buchon” and as such has a Merlin
10 yrs ago , me and my former girlfriend were sat in our back garden on a scorching hot summers day and i heard this drone coming and quickly i jumped up and ran into the house and got my phone , i said that those are merlin engines (she had no clue what i ment) my gf looked at me and looked puzzled and the drone was coming closer and it dawned on me that this had to be 2 or more Spits and or Hurries and i got my phone ready to record whatever it was and to my delight and surprise it was the Lancaster Bomber.. Sadly for me i was looking out the front of my house and it went around the rear. Fortunately former gf recorded it.
Good thing he had altitude when this happened.
beautiful save. high stress low altitude engine failure, thats pretty intense!!!
First, thank the good Lord the Pilot is ok and was very skilled. Second, it would have been a shame to have damaged or lost that aircraft being as not many still survive in flying condition.
Well, that video sucks, BUT the best camera for the job is the one you have at the time, so kudos for a great video :D
Great job saving himself and the airplane
If that was a Buchon it’s got a Merlin in it. I thought Merlin’s were more reliable than that.
Con rods from China ?
At 80 years old they need maintenance.
Pilot did good job. Luckily R.R variant not DB 601/605. Rarer engine's probably.
Someone in the crowd said something mean and the ‘micro aggression’ caused the engine to break. These are the times we now live in.
Every bmw i've ever owned did the exact same thing
This has a British engine.
@@PistonAvatarGuy 🤣😂
@@PistonAvatarGuy and the Messerschmit's had Daimler/Mercedes engines. 🤭
@@ivorharden daimler benz
Probably a Rolls Royce Merlin engine. Not many of the DB's around any more
At least the sheep is concerned.
Better use a 605
... and die like Marseille?
@@blacktiger974 I'd recommend a late 605
@@KBKriechbaum just pray it's not running at 1.98 ata
@@KBKriechbaum the late Mark Hanna had 2 forced landings in a short period of time flying a Buchon retrofitted with a genuine late DB605. Late war German war machines were terrible quality and specifically those using late war German engines in airworthy aircraft either substitute them for allied engines or completely remanufacture them to make them safer to fly. Even if the Daimler Benz design was adequate, profound shortages of strategic engineering resources due to allied war efforts ensured that the metals available to German industry were crap quality late in the war and the quality of workmanship was as good as you can expect from the slave labour Germany forced to build their weapons and equipment including the DB605 engine's numerous components.
Is it actually that hard to understand that, since it was designed by Willy Messerschmitt before he took over the company, it was still named after Bayreiche Flugzeugwerke? as in, it's called Bf 109, same thing with the Bf 110. The Me 410, and Me 262, Me 323, the Me 264, all of them were called Me, because they were concieved after Willy Messerschmitt took of Bayreiche Flugzeugwerke.
Both designations were used in contemporary German sources as well as in allied documentation. Besides, this piece is a Hispano, so technically it is neither BF or ME, but HA.
@@mrorome5064 What, in the everloving fuck are you saying???????? Hispanos are autocannons, that are not even german. And no, the 109 and 110 were never called Me in most or all documents. There could be confusion among logistics by having Messerschmitts not labeled Me, so they could have called it Me at a lower level, but never officially
@@eliaslundstedt5607 Best not to swear as it highlights your ignorance old chap. Mrorome is correct as this is a Hispano Aviacion HA-1109/1112, a licence-built version of the Me/Bf 109 G-2 developed by Spain in and after WW2.
@@eliaslundstedt5607 : you got schooled.
A lot of the Spanish Built 109 where re-engined with Merlins after the war due to short supply. Changes the shape of engine cowlings the German 600 series was an inverted ( upside down engine ) V12 whereas the Merlin ran conventionaly crank at bottom.
Fly it like you stole it
Why on earth is this called dead stick? The engine's dead. The pilot still has full control. As a glider pilot I always smirk at that expression.
Even in model flying, an engine cut is called "dead stick".
@@stevebroughton4787 It's still a misnomer. The engine is dead, not the controls.
It's the throttle lever that's the stick which is dead.
@@jamieduff1981 The propeller is the 'dead stick'
@@richardwills3529 Glad to see that one person knows the origin of the term. Dates from early flying when propellers were wooden, hence the "stick" reference.
@ 1:14..... UFO ??
"On high, the Merlin - tempests have great power to wrecke :
Best to stick around with DB,
My dear friends, you see,
And safest for the necke!"
😊😊😊👍👍👍
Filmed by Stevie Wonder himself 😎
WOW BEAUTIFUL..THATS HOW ITS DONE..DOWN SAFELY..I JUST GOT DONE WATCHING THE BLACK 6 CRASH BY AN INCOMPETENT PILOT, HE EVEN HAD THE ENGINE STILL RUNNING AND STILL DID A SHITTY LANDING NOSING THE RELIC OVER AND RUINING IT..SAD SAD SAD..
Ahh you're a pilot i see!?
I am . And I have had to make an emergency landing at this airfield , I needed a pee! If you read the accident report its all there.........I flew in last week .Worth a visit .If you fly in there's no landing fee if you buy 1/2 a sheep !
Agreed, wrong radiator setting used on Black 6 back in 1997.....boiled the engine. Made a total hash of landing her.
It was a Browning from a Spitfire that caused it. DAGGA DAGGA DAGGA DAGGA
Buchon is not "exactly" a 109 {Merlin engine} but, dang, good job by pilot not bending the plane in a very dangerous situation. wow!
Camera work failure
Was that Stevie Wonder trying to film the 109?
...shot on an IPhone 3s. Don't mind the dinosaurs in the background. Be happy it was filmed at all.
I could have done it better with a $30 phone, and I never record things.
If the engine had gone completely he'd've been stuck up there for ages.
Simon Palling there was a catastrophic piston failure the aircraft was disassembled at taken out by road. The engine had to be completely rebuilt due to all the metal that went round it.
At about the same time we had a Me109 belly land in a field in Denmark. It has been repaired and is flying again.
czcams.com/video/Dx8U3nDRPUs/video.html
That was a real BF109 too with the Benz engine glad it’s up and flying again
@@stephensales6592 That was the only time in recorded time I wasn't at that show, and glad I wasn't - not sure I would have survived seeing it go down!
@@stephensales6592 Red 7 was converted from a Buchon. After repairs it got bent again in August 2016 from a ground loop and I think it is still under repair.
I remember everyone yelling ‘ eject , eject, eject !’ Thank god he didn’t have to use the Martin Baker . He did well to jettison the external stores and i was surprised the AIM 120’s didn’t fall off.
Excellent airmanship unlike the 109 at Duxford.
Cameraman needs some improvement!
Nice rc plane, well controlled from that standing position, looks and sounds realistic.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Looks like the Merlin engine isn't as reliable as the Mercedes engine.
No dry sump oil system to combat the g-forces from acrobatics can starve and engine of oil, and blow out things like connecting rods.
Doesn't sound anywhere near as menacing either.
+Rockitanski The Merlin is dry-sump and pressure lubricated, just like most of the other piston aero engines.
Merlin pissing contest vs. Mercedes pissing contest. Two enter. One leaves. Both covered in piss.
Will you be reliable when your 80 years old?
German engineering excellence is a myth ,just because a race is arrogant does not automatically make them superior, btw they couldn't make a radial to save themselves.
@@interman7715 They made a radial that cost a lot of Mark 5 Spitfire pilots their lives. Look up Focke Wulf 190A.
the worst videography I have ever seen
Outstanding airmanship. But the photographer mustn't give up his day job. Dude, that was the worst photography I have ever seen