Willy Messerschmitt
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Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer who designed a number of prominent aircraft for the Luftwaffe and civil aviation.
Messerschmitt in 1958
Messerschmitt meets with Erhard Milch (center) and Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer
Portrait by Günter Rittner (1978)
Messerschmitt Bf 109
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The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a monoplane fighter aircraft that was designed and initially produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Bayerische Flugzeugwerke. Together with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, the
Willy Messerschmitt
…worked in Spain until returning to Germany in 1955, serving as director of Messerschmitt AG until his retirement in 1970. Messerschmitt designed the Messerschmitt Bf 109 in collaboration with Walter Rethel, which became the most important fighter aircraft in the Luftwaffe and remains the second most-produced warplane…
A Bf 109G-6 of JG 27 "Afrika" in flight, 1943
Messerschmitt Bf 109 V1
A drawing of the V1 prototype
JG 53 Bf 109E-3, c. 1939/1940