O-kay... "The Nazis created the 'ultimate' fighter plane during World War Two by upgrading a captured British Spitfire plane - that would outperform anything else in the sky. The seized aircraft, which had mistakenly landed in a turnip field on occupied Jersey in 1942, was enhanced to make it travel faster and climb quicker than either its German or British counterparts. To achieve this, the Germans welded a Messerschmidt 109 fighter's head to the front and replaced its engine with a more powerful fuel injected Daimler-Benz model. The 'Messer-Spit' was fortunately never replicated during the war, as the Nazis did not know how to build a Spitfire, but may well have impacted the outcome if it had been brought into production. The single Frankenstein-plane was eventually destroyed by an Allied bombing raid on the Daimler-Benz factory, near Stuttgart, in 1944. 'The Germans took the Spitfire then tried putting the front end, the engine, of their Me109 fighter, on the front end of it, producing this ghastly looking hybrid,' said British aviation historian Nik Coleman. 'Funnily enough it worked great, better than either of the original aircraft. They never pursued the project, but used the information to improve their future fighters.' Aviation historian Ian McLachlan said that the new aircraft had performed 'rather well' after the parts were added. 'It went through extensive testing and did very well on all the key factors such as speed and rate of climb." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7898893/How-Germans-created-ultimate-fighter-plane-WWII-captured-British-Spitfire.html And a lot more info here- German Air Force - The German Spitfire
At first I thought this was a joke! However, thinking back on it, I think I remember this from somewhere else. Interesting!
I disagree with this Nic Coleman. The Spanish version of the 109 was worse looking by far. Of course the Spaniards did just the opposite from what we're talking about here!
I don't think the Germans could not have built their own Spitfire, but the tooling up would probably take a year and it would be at the expense of production of existing war material, labor and finally, introduction of a third fighter plane in the logistical supply chain,
