With the engine installed with the heads facing upside down inside the front of the airplane, it's a configuration copied by the Bf-109 fighter, albeit with considerably larger V-12 engines.

It’s time to overhaul the engine in the Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3. In this image, the Daimler-Benz DB 601 Aa has been stripped down in preparation for its removal from the airframe. There is a ...

and one of this kind of Bf 109 was tried against the new and more potent Spitfire Mk XIV powered with the Griffon 61 engine. The result was that the Spitfire was faster than the Bf 109G at all ...

Powered by a Daimler-Benz engine than spun a single three-bladed propeller, the Bf 109 could reach speeds of 520 kph (320 mph), a maximum altitude of 12,000 m (39,000 ft), and had a range of up to ...

Despite being made in large number, the overall construction of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 relied on a small aircraft with a 32.45 ft (9.85 m) wingspan, a 28.1 ft (8.55 m) long and 8 ft (2.45 m) height.

Although it could zip along at almost 400 miles per hour, “the continual addition of weighty items like wing cannon and larger engines to the slight airframe of the Bf 109 eliminated much of the ...

A bigger, heavier aircraft required two engines and two propellers, which added even more weight. The result was that the Bf 110 weighed more than four tons, or twice that of the Bf 109.