Messershmitt Bf110 wreck - basic model

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This is the result of a first go at mapping the site of a Messerschmitt Bf110 fighter bomber off Dorset. Just a ‘low quality’ processed model from 450 images taken with a 15mm fish eye - processed in Lightroom before Agisoft. Probably the wrong lens for this but it wasn’t the main aim of the dive and only done as time allowed.

The wreck is in ~21m of water around one mile from shore, south of Worbarrow Bay. The plane was shot down on 7th October 1940. After taking a direct hit from Spitfires, the pilot ditched the plane in the sea. The ditching of the plane is borne out by there still (after 80 years) being some structure left. Had the crew bailed out leaving the plane to crash it would have broken up on impact. The pilot and radio operator/rear gunner (known as the bordfunker) were both picked up by a rescue launch and spent the remainder of the war as PoWs. From their interrogation report, it sounded like a rough landing because the pilot commented that he could (and should) have landed on the ground.