"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:7nDRc.253451$JR4.113312@attbi_s54...

Lest any of you think that I'm so google-eyed about Oshkosh that I can't
find anything to bitch about, here are a few nits I'd like to pick:

1. No Glacier Girl. Again, Glacier Girl (the P-38 so many of us OSH-goers
contributed money to recover and restore) was a no-show. (Although there
WAS a real ME-109 at the show -- a first!) Ungrateful *******s.


A real ME-109 at the show? I don't think so. Photos of a Hispano Ha-1112
Buchon in German markings have been posted on
alt.binaries.pictures.aviation, I think you're referring to that airplane.
The Hispano Ha-1112 was built in Spain under license from Messerschmitt.
They were initially powered by Hispano-Suiza engines, later by Rolls Royce
Merlins.

If you want to be a real stickler for accuracy, there were no Me-109s at
all. The correct designation was Bf 109, Bf stood for Bayerische
Flugzeugwerke. In 1938 the company was renamed Messerschmitt and later
aircraft designs used Me, but the earlier designs were not redesignated.