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April 29, 2014 at 5:18 pm in reply to: Finnish Bristol Blenheims in Colour #928582

Martti Kujansuu
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This is perhaps one of most well known colour photographs taken of the Finnish Air Force during the Continuation War; fighter pilot Hans Wind poses in front of his Brewster B-239 “BW-393”. JSdia263:

April 7, 2013 at 2:25 pm in reply to: Restoration of FIAF Hawker Hurricane Mk. I "HC-452" #941316

Martti Kujansuu
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The restoration of the HC-452 has been now completed, with the plane attached to the permanent exhibition of the Aviation Museum of Central Finland. – A photograph of the plane in the exhibition.

February 13, 2013 at 9:24 am in reply to: The Restoration of I.V.L. Haukka "HA-39" #999053

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There were three prototypes built, and their British competitor was of course the Gamecock, Gauntlets were still in the future…

Thank you for the correction. My mind slipped as Haukka, Gamecock and Gauntlet all used Bristol engines!

February 1, 2013 at 12:52 pm in reply to: Raw Film Footage of the Finnish Air Force at War #1014260

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I went through all the material once again and noticed there’s some footage on the assembly of the license build Blenheims at the State Aircraft Factory at Tampere in 1942.

January 22, 2013 at 9:46 am in reply to: Raw Film Footage of the Finnish Air Force at War #951661

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Hurricanes at Hollola on 30 June 1941:

January 21, 2013 at 7:20 pm in reply to: Raw Film Footage of the Finnish Air Force at War #952640

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Didn’t know the Finnish/Swedish Gladiators had those armoured seats!

Yes, I believe Finnish Gladiators were equipped with armoured seats taken from crashed Soviet aeroplanes during the Winter War.

January 21, 2013 at 11:05 am in reply to: Raw Film Footage of the Finnish Air Force at War #953363

Martti Kujansuu
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What I have now learned from various sources is that the DVDs are not going to be ever sold in stores due to the copyrights. Fortunately the Finnish Copyright Law allows one to copy DVDs for personal use or have them copied by a third party.

January 17, 2013 at 8:02 pm in reply to: Raw Film Footage of the Finnish Air Force at War #958906

Martti Kujansuu
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Can you put some more on please?

Here’s Gladiator.

January 17, 2013 at 5:38 pm in reply to: Raw Film Footage of the Finnish Air Force at War #959121

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A bit of a teaser; Blenheims attacking Soviet shipping of the coast of the Karelian Isthmus on 16 June 1944.

October 8, 2012 at 10:46 am in reply to: A Classic Finnish Aviation Film – Featuring Ripon and Gamecock #1017090

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Interesting take on how they expected a bombing attack to materialize.

One has to remember that the mid-1930s was still strong time of the Douhetism and people believed “the bomber will always get through”. There is a clear civil defence agenda on the film as there was all over the country during that time.

However already during the filming, the old Junkers represented old strategy which concentrated on seaplanes. The new strategy materialized finally when the new and fast Bristol Blenheims were bought in 1936.

May 26, 2012 at 8:53 pm in reply to: Restoration of FIAF Hawker Hurricane Mk. I "HC-452" #1016133

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Wow, 364 days of snow and rain in Finland 😉

Where the museum is located the cold winter lasts around 160 days, the wet spring and fall both 60 days, leaving only 85 days to the summer! The weather is harsh for any plane as the MiG-21s outside the Finnish Aviation Museum at Vantaa will show.

May 25, 2012 at 3:17 pm in reply to: Restoration of FIAF Hawker Hurricane Mk. I "HC-452" #1016633

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As usual, wishing, when restoration work is finished, that the aircraft will stay on its wheels, still able to be towed outside for special occasions, and not fixed for ever in a museum corner !

It is customary at the Museum to tow the aeroplanes outside for a day for a photo shoot after they have been restored. Unfortunately the Finnish weather is usually too harsh to display the planes outside even for a day per year.

It is amiracle they scored 3 x I-152 since 3 were ever built;

From the original combat reports one can deduce that I-152 and I-15bis were in fact the same aeroplane type. Interesting enough the I-15s were marked simply as I-15s!

May 25, 2012 at 4:09 am in reply to: Restoration of FIAF Hawker Hurricane Mk. I "HC-452" #1016787

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She will be ready for display for Jämi Fly In held on 7 – 8 July 2012. Is it true that HC-452 (c/n 41H/11096) is the one of the oldest preserved Hawker Hurricanes in the world as per the link?
http://www.jamiflyin.com/eng/news/hawkerhurricanemkihc-452tojami

May 24, 2012 at 10:26 am in reply to: Restoration of FIAF Hawker Hurricane Mk. I "HC-452" #1017060

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A lot of new information with photographs have been posted to the blog. Check it out!

December 23, 2011 at 12:09 pm in reply to: Restoration of FIAF Hawker Hurricane Mk. I "HC-452" #1049725

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with both sides flying Hurricanes in the ‘Continuation war’, were there any Hurricane v Hurricane combats?

No, as Finnish Hurricanes ceded operations from their northernmost base, Tiiksjärvi aerodrome, on 23 September 1941, while the first Soviet Hurricanes were observed over Finnish lines during December 1941. However there were aerial victories archived between I-153s & I-153s and LaGG-3s vs. LaGG-3s. Finns also flew several bomber stream infiltration missions with captured Soviet bombers.

Finnish Hurricanes archived all their victories at the Karelian Isthmus:
-3 July 1941 – 2 x I-153
-4 July 1941 – 1 x DB-3
-15 July 1941 – 2 x I-153
-8 January 1942 – 3 x I-152
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