Messerschmitt M 29

The Messerschmitt M 29, also called the BFW M.29, was a single-engine, two-seat, low-wing aircraft built by Bayerische Flugzeugwerke and designed by Willy Messerschmitt to take part in the 1932 Circuit of Europe races, after M.23s had won that event in 1929 and 1930. It was a clean-sheet design for the sport and touring market, a low-wing cantilever monoplane with an enclosed tandem cockpit, a spatted cantilever undercarriage, wings that folded back along the fuselage, and flaps and slots meant to give an unusually wide speed range, with a maximum of about 260 km/h and a landing speed of 55 to 60 km/h. The M.29a used a 150 hp Siemens Sh 14a radial and the M.29b a 150 hp Argus As 8R inline engine. Four aircraft were delivered just before the race on 27 August 1932, but two broke up in the air within days, killing a pilot and an observer, and the type was grounded while the tail was strengthened. At least six were built.