Description:

Name: Me-157
Nickname: Sturmfalke
(Use this for a reference to what I’m talking about Supreme Bf-109 1943. Also formally known as Supreme Bf-109
Some information is to the best of I can provided since I can’t remember all of the details almost 2 years ago, and thank him AKA FRT for giving me lore if this post gets onto the first page I’ll remake one of my older builds)

RD

Before the Soviet War the Me-157A 1937 variant was getting quickly outdated, needing an upgraded and modern airframe was urgently needed as the German leader was planing to invaded the Soviet Union before 1939. The first rough design and wooden model for the Me-157B was made in January 13th 1938. With having 2 tri bladed propellers this aircraft was very unique in design as there were no other designs like this at the time. After almost 3 months of designing and various armament changes the first prototype of the Me-157 took flight on May 7th 1938. This aircraft was armed with 6x20mm with an original plan of 8x20mm the placement to fit all 8 was almost impossible to do so they went with 6x20mm instead. The Me-157B5 had a top speed of +400MPH/643KPH flew faster than any other aircraft in Europe, with a wingspan of almost 47ft/14.3m and an aircraft length of almost 40ft/12.1m. But as per aircraft had some serious issues, to begin with the landing gear shown signs of cracking when landing this was relatively easy to fix to just use a more powerful spring which slowed that issue, the next issue was the engines not cooling down fast enough as it was very powerful engine which was temporarily solved with putting pipes outside of the aircraft to cool them down.

Combat

With 1939 in and soon to be 1940 the invasion begun at nightfall of September 10th 1939. As the Me-157 finally seeing combat for three first time it was overkill. as the Soviet’s were still using small I-16 and other aircraft the Me-157 ripped apart them as if they were made out of paper. Me-157 alone crippled any airborne Soviet aircraft during the first month of combat with only 6 being shot down at the time. As of 1943 the newer and more iconic Me-157D17 the last variant of the aircraft being made. Between 1938-1948 newer and more powerful aircraft made by the FRT as of the Vos 231 A late, Vos C3E, Vos Tornado.F2 and the Sea Tornado E, and with Germany newer and better aircraft the SiG-282 which was essentially a Me-157 but better.

Conclusion

The Me-157 was officially retired in 1949 on September 20th almost 1 year until the surrender of the USSR. with the new jet aircraft and heavy development of better piston powered aircraft available to Germany and wining the war against the USSR, the entire eastern block fell. With lower parts of Norway, Sweden, being apart of FRT with Cyprus and Crete being controlled also by FRT and the loss of Madagascar. with over 40 million troops mobilized, 18 million engaged, and 3 million dead it was the second largest war in Europe since World War 1.

End of report

Ok onto the build so basically whatever you do, do not break, let the landing flaps do there thing, oh yeah did I forgot to mention this is my first super complex build next to the AE-5?! Now you know!, flip the ailerons

Here is what is custom:

Fully custom wings with camouflage, fuselage slicing and hinges to power the planes yaw, roll and pitch! Well it was suppose to, but it got way too complex for even me.

Custom landing gear, I pray to the all mighty SimplePlanes part connector tell me what’s connecting and not hiding it and making me what to throw my device.

Custom livery? You might be wonder, why do you have invasion stripes? Well that’s easy because the original first version of the aircraft, was just a circle fuselage with twin tri blade props and stollen spitfire wings, I don’t know who I never posted said aircraft both publicly and unlisted and its gone so yeah.

Custom landing flaps. yes you heard that right I am upping my game with fully custom parts (or what I assume to be custom I hope) so it’s pretty easy it works just how flaps work? AG1 is where you want to use combat flaps I tried my best on it.

Custom cockpit. Yeah shocker there hadn’t done those since the Ta-152 I believe? It’s mostly empty OH I almost forgot that the cockpit glass slides back when you put landing gear up :0, very excited I did that

Plus more (I forgot the rest)

Scraped ideas:

landing gear bay: for obvious reason I hope you can understand

Bullet casing: the name itself should explain it self, but hey I added where it can be ejected in the future

This build took me like a week to do so I’m not very tired at all (I very much am)

Warnings

For a realistic take off don’t go past 75% throttle you might crash but unlikely

This aircraft center of gravity and lift are so close together that adding anything to the aircraft would make it go insane, tip of advice? Remove the wings. If that even works.

If the landing gears is being a pain removed the gears, disassemble the landing gear redo the landing gear and add it back onto that aircraft

Theses issue could be super easy to fix but I’m either too dumb to understand or find what’s causing it! Can’t wait to find out there’s an issue