Recent content by a finn

IL2 - FB is a great game. Current career : 11 kills on you-know-what plane :)

Well, I also found this : code QO-K must be a mistake, because every other source I have found says that Halifax VII NP-689 was QO-M (for example that link in my previous posting, that link fits also to P/O T.Scott) So, what do you think, is Viper legit or not?

LaGG-3? I think this plane looks quite ordinary.

This comment is a little late, but Buffalo (at least B-239) really got off the ground :) And my opinion is that it isn't really ugly. Even this is much uglier : Polikarpov I-16 (A lot of those went down by FAF Brewsters)

Yes, it is really a Halifax. Here's a link for some additional info : http://www.angelfire.com/ca/gcarruth/Ops.html

GRG, both at school and myself, and as for the age question, I'm over 35 years old geezer. So, I'm really an Senior Airman :) And yes that is LeLv 24 Brewster, Lt. Lauri Pekuri was the last man to fly it, it was shot down 25th of June 1942 and salvaged later (1998) from a lake in Karelia...

Here's a funny story from Finland. Storyteller is "Illu" Juutilainen, plane of course Brewster B-239 : "It was also a "gentleman's traveling plane", for it had a roomy cockpit and room in the fuselage, as we used to say, for a poker gang. We unofficially transported mechanics, spare parts, oil...

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Stuka, you forgot Norway - and I read from somewhere that there's a cross in Finnish flag because it's a part of nordic flag tradition. Does that mean tha we have copied that from Sweden? Oh no! :shock:

But... back to business. Which is FAF and their victory ratios of course :) Fokker D.XXI - 191 victories, 16 losses - 12:1 Fiat G.50 - 101 victories, 5 losses - 20:1 Morane-Saulnier M.S. 406 - 135 victories, 18 losses - 7.5:1 Curtiss Hawk 75 A - 190 victories, 15 losses - 12:1 And...

Yes, and last night (or at least the show was broadcasted in Finland last night) Conan apologized all finns (because he got A LOT of postcards from Finland) and that was part of the apology. Now all Swedish people can send hatemail to Conan. 8) :lol: :D

Sweden sucks! If you don't believe it, go ask Conan O'Brien :twisted:

Finnish Bf 109Gs had quite a good kill ratio too : Bf 109Gs shot down total of 663 enemy aircraft while losing 32 fighters in combat or to anti-aircraft fire. That makes a kill ratio of 21:1

Brewster B-239 (Finnish Air Force) 472 kills by 44 planes and 83 pilots Can't help myself - those numbers are so impressive :)