Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun byl zkonstruován firmou BFW, konstrukčním týmem pod vedením ing. Williho Messerschmitta v roce 1934. Letoun původně vznikl jako lehká turistická dvousedadlovka pro německý reprezentační tým, účastnící se mezinárodních závodů Challenge 1934. Ačkoli tento závod nebyl pro Bf 108 úspěšný, RLM objednalo u BFW výrobu 34 letadel. Produkce vylepšené verze Bf 108B byla zahájena v listopadu 1935. Konstrukce byla celkově zvětšena, stroj byl nyní čtyřmístný a dostal nový motor Argus As 10C. Bf 108B byl velmi moderní lehký letoun, s celokovovou konstrukcí, zatahovacím podvozkem a stavitelnou vrtulí, s vynikajícími letovými charakteristikami. Díky svým vynikajícím výkonům dosáhl Bf 108B na konci třicátých let řady úspěchů v mezinárodních závodech a rekordních letech. První zahraniční pilot, testující Bf 108B byl Charles Lindberg, který ho označil za nejlepší letadlo této třídy na světě. Vojenská verze byla Bf 108B-2, přijatá do výzbroje Luftwaffe v roce 1939. Bf 108 byl používán po celou válku prakticky všemi operačními jednotkami Luftwaffe jako lehký spojovací a kurýrní letoun. V roce 1941 byla verze B nahrazena ve výrobě novou verzí D. Ta byla poháněna motorem Argus As 10R s novou automaticky stavitelnou vrtulí Argus. Měla také upravenou palivovou instalaci. V roce 1942 byla výroba převedena do Francie, kde bylo až do osvobození v roce 1944 vyrobeno 170 Bf 108D. jejich výroba pokračovala i po válce produkcí 115 strojů značených Nord 1000. Celkem bylo vyrobeno 626 kusů vojenských verzí Bf 108B-2 a D-1, mimo to ještě nejméně 180 civilních strojů verze B-0 a B-1. Většinu z nich používala Luftwaffe, typ byl ovšem používán i v řadě dalších zemí. 8 Taifunů mělo maďarské letectvo, 3 italské, 3 rumunské, dva stroje zakoupil SSSR, 12 Švýcarsko, 12 Jugoslávie. Jeden stroj byl v Chile, jeden nebo dva v Japonsku, jeden v Austrálii. 6 Bf 108 mělo bulharské letectvo, nejméně jeden stroj byl ve Španělsku. Jeden Bf 108B-1, značený XC-44 byl zakoupen vládou USA pro vojenského přidělence v Berlíně. Dva Bf 108B-1 byly používány německým velvyslanectvím v Londýně. Tyto dva stroje byly v roce 1939 zabaveny a používány RAF. Po válce byl jeden Bf 108B-2 používán v Československu, dva v Polsku, po jednom v Dánsku a ve Švédsku. Asi 115 Nordů 1000 létalo ve Francii. Ovšem po celém světě létalo ještě dlouho po válce mnoho přeživších Taifunů, z nichž mnohé jsou dodnes v letuschopném stavu.

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The BFW Company (latter Messerschmitt A.G.) designed the Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun in 1934. The original design was for a light tourist double seater, developed for the German team taking part in the 1934 international air race Challenge. Even though the Challenge wasn't a great success for the Bf 108 as the best German pilot Theo Osterkamp only came in fifth, the RLM still ordered 32 Bf 108s. The production of the improved version, the Bf 108B, was set-up in November 1935. The B version was redesigned to be a four-seater with a new Argus As 10C engine. The Bf 108B was a very modern light aircraft with an all-metal airframe, retractable undercarriage, adjustable propeller, and with excellent flight characteristics. The Bf 108 took part in many air races and record flights and the first foreign pilot who tested the Bf 108 was Charles Lindberg. He said that it was one of the world's best aircraft in its class. The military version of the Taifun was the Bf 108B-2 and was acquired by the Luftwaffe in 1939. It was widely employed during the war years by all operational Luftwaffe units as a light liaison aircraft. In 1941 the new version, the Bf 108D, replaced the B version on the production line. An Argus As 10R engine powered the D version and included the new Argus automatically adjustable propeller and improved fuel assembly. The production was transferred to France in 1942, where 170 Bf 108D were completed before the liberation of France in 1944. French production continued after the war where another 115 aircraft under the name of "Nord 1000" were manufactured. In total 626 military Taifuns, versions B-2 and D-1, were produced except at least 180 civilian or export version Bf 108 B-0 and B-1. The Luftwaffe employed most of them, but many other air forces used this fine and popular aircraft. The Hungarian AF had 8 Taifuns, both the Italians and Rumanians had 3, the USSR bought two and Switzerland and Yugoslavia had 12 each. One aircraft was used in Chile, one or two in Japan and one was in Australia. The Bulgarian AF had 6 and at least one was in Spain. One Bf 108B-1, coded XC44, was operated by the US embassy in Berlin. Two Bf 108B-1s were flown by the German embassy in London but the RAF confiscated these two aircraft in 1939. After the war, one Bf 108B-2 was flown in Czechoslovakia, two in Poland, one in Denmark and one in Sweden. Some 115 Bf 108Ds ( Nord 1000) were used by the French AF and Navy until the late 50's. Many of the surviving Taifuns were flown a long time after the war, and some of them are still in airworthy condition today.

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A Sonderkommando Blaich, Tripoli, Libya, January 1942

Sonderkommando Blaich, named for its Commander, Hptm. Theo Blaich, utilised the He 111 in Libya during 1942. This liaison aircraft was part of their fleet as well. Taifun KG+EM was modified for service in a tropical climate and also received a desert camouflage scheme comprised of sand with green spots on the upper surfaces. The most interesting operation undertaken by this unit was a successful bombing raid on an Allied fuel storage facility on January 22nd, 1942, in which a partial role also played by the depicted aircraft.

B Hungary, 1942 - 1944

This aircraft carried a very unusual camouflage scheme, made up of RLM 74, 75 and 76 shades reserved for fighters. This aircraft probably served in Hungary on the Eastern front. The code letters ZS were either oversprayed or scraped off.

C Stab I./JG51, Soviet Union, Winter 1942 - 1943

The camouflage scheme here consisted of RLM 70 and 71 on the upper and RLM 65 on the lower surfaces. The upper surfaces were overpainted with white splotches and the white was sprayed over the outer sections of the national insignia.

D 4.(H)/Aufkl. Gr. 13, Romania, April 1940

A liaison plane belonging to 4.(H)/Aufkl. Gr. 13, shown as it appeared at one of the Luftwaffe’s air fields in Romania in the fall of 1940. The plane carried, besides a standard camouflage scheme consisting of fields of RLM 70/71 on the upper surfaces and RLM 65 on the undersides of the wings, fresh theatre markings designated for the Balkan campaign – a yellow nose and tail control surfaces. The 4.(H)/Aufkl. Gr. 13 marking was painted on the nose of the plane and it also had a somewhat non-standard shape to the letters in the codes.

E I./JG 54, France, June/ July 1940

This Taifun, flown by I. Gruppe JG 54 in the summer of 1940 from occupied France, was sprayed RLM02 on all surfaces. The unit marking was carried below the windscreen, and was a derivative of the Nuremburg Coat of Arms, the city near to which the fighter Gruppe was based before the war.