09.04.2008, 03:00
A Quick history of the Me210/410
The early models of the Me-210 had the short fuselage (total length 11.20m) and had horrible stability problems, vicious stalls and were underpowered (2 x 1350PS DB-601F). With the nose up or in a turn, the deployment of the slats often threw the aircraft into an unrecoverable spin. The Luftwaffe received 90 of these aircraft and hated them. By the A2, the Germans had cured most of the stability/stall issues by lengthening the fuselage (the overall length was now 12.22m) and other changes. Thought still underpowered, the aircraft was better. Production however was halted.
When the Hungarians decided to put the Me-210 into production, they used the long A2 airframe coupled with the 1475PS DB-605 engine which was already in production in Hungary. The Luftwaffe received 108 of these Ca1
The early models of the Me-210 had the short fuselage (total length 11.20m) and had horrible stability problems, vicious stalls and were underpowered (2 x 1350PS DB-601F). With the nose up or in a turn, the deployment of the slats often threw the aircraft into an unrecoverable spin. The Luftwaffe received 90 of these aircraft and hated them. By the A2, the Germans had cured most of the stability/stall issues by lengthening the fuselage (the overall length was now 12.22m) and other changes. Thought still underpowered, the aircraft was better. Production however was halted.
When the Hungarians decided to put the Me-210 into production, they used the long A2 airframe coupled with the 1475PS DB-605 engine which was already in production in Hungary. The Luftwaffe received 108 of these Ca1