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| | Messerschmitt Me109 - Great Planes - Flight Journal Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | A major change came with the Me 109E, which used the 960hp Daimler-Benz DB 600 engine (an inverted V-12 like the Jumo) but had a three-blade propeller and a markedly different radiator arrangement under the nose. |
 | | Most notable were the greatly enlarged, nearly hemispherical propeller spinner, rounded (instead of squared) wingtips and horizontal, cantilevered tail that did not have bracing struts. |
 | | From the F-3 model onward, the 1,350hp DB 601 E engine was used; its gross weight was 6,063 pounds and its top speed was 391mph at 19,680 feet (6,000 meters). |
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