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The M 20 was designed by Willy Messerschmitt at Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, primarily for use with Luft Hansa which had ordered two in advance of the first flight. [1] It was a development of the BFW M.18d eight-seater, equipped with a single 375 kW (500 hp) upright inline water-cooled BMW VIa engine.
The BFW M.23, sometimes known as the Messerschmitt M 23, was a 1920s two-seat sporting aircraft designed by Willy Messerschmitt, and produced by Bayerische Flugzeugwerke. Examples won several prestigious races in 1929 and 1930.
The few Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1b test examples built used the more developed version of the 003 jet, recording an official top speed of 500 mph (800 km/h). The Me 262A-1a production version used the competing Jumo 004, whose heavier weight required the wings to be swept back in order to move the center of gravity into the correct position.
During the period of 1927-33, Messerschmitt designed a series of six sport planes, the single-seat M.17 and M.19, and the two-seat M.23, M.27 M.31, and finally the M.35. [1] With the exception of the M.23, none sold in large numbers. They were all single-engine low-wing cantilever monoplanes with open cockpits and fixed undercarriage.
During the late 1920s, the German aeronautical engineer Willy Messerschmitt had undertaken the design of several capable racing aircraft.Specifically, separate BFW M.23s had won the Circuit of Europe or Challenge International de Tourisme during both 1929 and 1930; these victories, which came about as a result of the aircraft’s impressive performance, quickly garnered a favourable reputation ...
The M.19 was entered into the Sachsenflug competition, flown by Theo Cronweiss and won both the technical prize and the overall award, winning Messerschmitt 60,000 RM which he invested in BFW. [ 1 ] Only two were built, but the low-wing, aerodynamically clean M.19 lead to a series of two-seat developments: the successful M.23 , the M.27 , the M ...
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Willy Messerschmitt, working at Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW) produced a series of low-wing sports monoplanes with either one or two seats. [2] These were the M.19 , M.23 , M.27, M.31 and M.35 with the M.23, the only one with sales of much over double figures.
However, Messerschmitt proved unable to sell the design, possibly due at least in part to the enmity of Deutsche Luft Hansa director Erhard Milch towards Messerschmitt. [ 3 ] The first M 24a (Junkers-engined, registered D-1767 ) was used commercially from 1930 by Nordbayerische Verkersflug on the Dresden-Chemnitz-Plauen-Nuremberg route, until ...