Stock Photo - Sep. 09, 1960 - An old acquaintance..met these three pilots on Friday, September 2nd, 1960 in the German Museum in Munich: A 'Me 109' which was given as a present of the Spanish Airforce Ministry to the German Museum in Minuch by it's constructor, Professor Dr.-Ing. E.H. Willy Messerschmitt (MESSERSCHMITT). at the same time the 25th, birthday of the most famous German fighter plane of the Second World War was celebrated. Ops: from to right: the former fighter plane pilot Josef Briller (BRILLER), Eridh Hartmann (HARTMANN) who has had 352 firings with a Me 109 and who is now major of a fighter plane command of the Federal Army, and Fritz Wendel (WENDEL), the former chief-pilot of the Messerschmitt Works, who is still holding the world-record of propeller planes which he set up in 1939 with 755 Km/h on a Me 109. Keystone-Munich, 2-9-60 (Credit Image: © Keystone Press Agency/Keystone USA via ZUMAPRESS.com)