Bf-109-G-14

[Leo]

   My wife bought me a book about the arforces of germany's allies in WWII.  In the section concerning Hungary there was a notation concerning Hungarian crashes and deaths in the 109-G-14.  Was there anything inherently wrong with this marke?  I have "Augsburg Eagle" by William Greene and noyhing is mentioned about this particular variant.  Does anyone on the Forum have any info.  These were inflight crashes and were not related to the landing gear.

[No.1]

G-14 have several variants and even I have scale model of Hartman plane used in Veszpren in Hungary.

[Leo]

  I found something that might explain the problems with the G-14 varaiant.  The tailplane was fabricated from wood on this particular mark.  Perhaps they were prone to failure.

[Jicehem]

Hi Leo, Hi all,   

To have studied the Bf 109 G-14, I don't think there were more accidents with the Bf 109 G-14 than with the Bf 109 G-6. The main difference between late G-6s and G-14s was the MW 50 which was propelled by compressed air from the engine in the G-14, MW 50 beeing propelled by compressed air from bottles in the G-6. Apart from this difference all parts were common to both airplane types.
N°1 says the tall tailplane of the G-14 (and also of many G-6s) was made from wood. It's true and what is true too, is the fact that the wooden tailplane was heavier than the metallic one...
Maybe the source of more accidents ? I don't think so. Accidents on the Bf 109 (of all marks) were often the result of bad "building" of the pilots.

Cheers,
Jicehem