Bf 110 Notable Facts. Development of the aircraft had begun in the mid-1930s as part of the German rearmament program and military buildup. The prototype Messerschmitt Bf 110 V1 first flew from ...

But as an air superiority fighter, the day of the Bf 110 was over. That message was emphatically delivered in 1944 by the U.S. P-51 Mustang, a single-engined fighters, ...