This may be true, but fact is that Finland was completely broke, and could not afford even almost free airplanes. Also, the view of Soviets had to be taken into account, situation in Finland was really dangerous, there was still a possibility of Soviet occupation. Added to this, the Allied forces (read: Soviets) had grounded Finnish Air Force, all flights required a special permission. After the end of the war there was no more any intention of series production of Pyörremyrsky. The test flights were made more out of curiosity to see how the airplane that had been painstakingly designed and built would actually perform.

Yes finns collected marriage rings to get money for arms. Me-109s were never paid ( Germany also never paid for burned Lappland etc )…and also the bounty P-36s were paid to Germany. Brewsters were very expensive for the finns.