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Messerschmitt Me 609 (Wikipedia)


Messerschmitt Me 609

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Me 609
A model of the Me 609.
RoleHeavy fighter
ManufacturerMesserschmitt
StatusUnrealised project
Developed fromMesserschmitt Me 309
The Messerschmitt Me 609 was a short-lived World War II German project which joined two fuselages of the Me 309 fighterprototype together to form a heavy fighter. The project was initiated in response to a 1941 Reich Air Ministry requirement for a new Zerstörer (heavy fighter) to replace the Bf 110 in a minimum time and with minimum new parts.
Messerschmitt's response was the Me 609, which would use the failed Me 309 project to form the basis of the new fighter. The company had actually contemplated numerous twin-boom adaptations of its Bf 109 line including the Bf 109Z (which joined two Bf 109s) and the Me 409 (which used two Me 209-II aircraft).

The Me 609 would have joined the two Me 309 fuselages with a new center wing section into which the two inboard wheels of thelanding gear would retract. The Me 609 kept the Me 309's tricycle undercarriage which resulted in an ungainly six-wheel arrangement. The Me 609 would have had its cockpit in the port fuselage, the starboard being smoothed over.
The finished project would have been used as both a heavy fighter and Schnellbomber, but by the time designs were being ironed out, the revolutionary Me 262 turbojet negated the need for further piston-engined fighter design.

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