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The Messerschmitt Me 210 was a German heavy fighter and ground-attack aircraft of World War II. The Me 210 was designed to replace the Bf 110 in heavy fighter role; design started before the opening of World War II. The first examples of the Me 210 were ready in 1939, but they proved to have...

On 8 September 1943, instructions were issued to redesign the Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate all-metal single-seat fighter (which see) for wooden construction because of the increasingly critical light alloy supply situation. The task of redesigning the airframe was assigned to the Tachikawa Hikoki which...

The Fairchild Model 24, is a four-seat, single-engine monoplane light transport aircraft that was used by the United States Army Air Corps as the UC-61 and by the Royal Air Force. The Model 24 was itself a development of previous Fairchild models and became a successful civil and military...

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Focke Wulf Fw-190D9, Aachen, Germany (1945)

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Focke Wulf Fw-200 ditches in the Atlantic after attacking a convoy

Obviously the nickname of the pilot... Everybody knows Buchon it´s the name of the fighter... ;)

I guess it's a nickname. Look at the other fighter at the other side; It has a different name on it.

Three Avro Anson Is were bought together with BLs in the late 1930's and served mainly in liaison and training duties. During Winter War all ANs were in T-LentoR 4 (Supplement Flying Regiment 4). On 26.2.1940 AN-103 crashed in take-off and was never repaired. At the beginning of Continuation War...

Four captured Polikarov U-2 light elementary trainers were repaired during the Continuation War. Although obsolete and slow they were used as liaison planes. The first one, coded VU-2, was used in Le.Lv.30 (Flying Squadron 30) since 29.6.1942 until it crashed on 31.5.1943. Another plane coded...

In 1936, the Finnish Air Force ordered 18 Blenheim Mk Is from Britain and two years later, they obtained a manufacturing license for the aircraft. Before any aircraft could be manufactured at the Valtion lentokonetehdas (State Airplane Factory) in Finland, the Winter War broke out, forcing the...

Only a couple of them are plastic. Most of my models are diecast (Hobby Master, Corgi, Franklin Mint etc...)

Hi, I cant remember if I mentioned it in any of my post, but what you are saying is true. Anyway I was emphasizing the history of the planes that took part in this conflict, and not the political side of the war. However, I am sure you have already seen my threads about the SCW, so you know...