Messerschmitt Me 609

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Manufacturer: Messerschmitt
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Technical Data

Type: Heavy fighter, long range reconnaissance project

Crew: man
Length: 9.72 m
Wingspan: 15.75 m
Wing area: m²
Height: 3.43 m
Empty: 5,247 kg
Loaded: 6,534 kg
Engine: 2 × Daimler-Benz DB 603G 12 cylinder liquid cooled supercharged inverted Vee piston engine producing up to1,900 hp each
Maximum speed: 760 km/h
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Armament:
2 × 30 mm MK 103 cannons
2 × 30 mm MK 108 cannons
Bomb load up to 500 kg
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Operators: Luftwaffe
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Film Clips: Luftwaffe Film Footage

History

The Messerschmitt Me 609 was a project for coupling two fighters together side by side to produce a four engine heavy fighter long range reconnaissance aircraft

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Sources

The Warplanes of the Third Reich.
ISBN-10: 0385057822

German Aircraft of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0370000242

Hitler's Luftwaffe.
ISBN-10: 051718771X

For a complete list of sources