One thing puzzles me about the pictures of hordes of cars, though. When I visited your beautiful country back in the 1960s, it seemed that hardly anyone there could afford a car!

If my memory serves me correctly there were only maybe a thousand or so cars at the Helsinki area in the late 1930s and you can see 30% of them on the first photo!

Martti

A bit off the topic but I though these Finnish blueprints would be a nice change of all these photographs. 😉

From Finnish manual “Bristol Blenheim – Rakenneselostus I”. 12/1943, Valtion Lentokonetehdas.

1.-2. Series V

3. Landing Gear

4. Landing Ski

5. Engine

Martti

It’s FINNISHED! 😮 🙂 Photo by Pentti Hyvärinen.

Can’t see the picture, but I’m almost sure you mean with SKIS, not skies, which is a plural form of word sky…

Just started to celebrate the midnight sun! 😀

Sorry for the delay!

Major Jusu test flew the plane on 13th November 1935 at Martlesham Heath. He found the plane easy to taxi but it was hard to see straight front because of the engine.

At take off the plane starts to first roll left and as the speed increases to right. Climbing and level flight are easy due of the adjustable elevator. The planes stays still easily steerable at dive in speeds over 500 km/h.

Jusu claims that landing speed is about 85 km/h, that is below the stalling speed according to the factory! (check the table below, 55 m.p.h = 88 km/h)

If the Finns would have ordered the plane the first 18 planes would have cost 4,650 £ per plane (1.055.000 Finnish marks). 5000 £ for the licence and 300 £ for the first ten planes, 250 £ for the next ten and 200 £ for the next…

Empty Weight with Pegasus X, propeller etc.: 1531 kg
Equipment: 129 kg
Operating fluids, pilot, observer etc.: 1362 kg

Total: 3022 kg

Performance with Pegasus X, operating weight of 2848 kg, wooden propeller and bombs & guns installed:

Speed:

Sea level: 267 km/h
2000 m: 294 km/h
3050 m: 290 km/h
4580 m: 283 km/h

Stalling speed: 105 km/h
Never exceed speed at dive: 563 km/h.

Climb rate:

Time to

1530 m: 3,2 min
3050 m: 7,2 min
4580 m: 12,9 min

Practical ceiling: 7300 m
Theoretical ceiling: 7650 m

Landing distance with brakes: 160 m
Starting distance: 200 m
Range with normal rpm at altitude of 2000 meters and with 680 liters of petrol: 820 km

Source: Finnish National Archive Service (“Kansallisarkisto”). “Op.3/YE: Kirjeistöä 1935-1937”. File T-2864/8.

Installing the Browning (including a list of all the tools and material they have used during the restoration). They also found out that the BL-200 has two sets of manufacturer plates installed: One made in Britain and another in Yugoslavia.

Part I
Part II
Part III