Brewster Buffalos in the German and Finnish AF

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The World's only Brewster's visit to Finland
The HQ of the Air Force notifies: The World's only Brewster's visit to Finland

Free to be released on 9 o'clock 6th March 2008.

The World's only Brewster's visit to Finland

As the Finnish Air Force is now 90 years old the National Naval Aviation Museum has loaned the World's only Brewster to Aviation Museum of Central Finland for several years. The plane arrived to Finland in previous week and it will be introduced to the preess at the Finnish Air Force Day on Tuesday 6th of March.[...]
 
So if they want it displayed as it was just after crash landing that would mean preserving what they can and repairing all damage and corrosion/weathering that took place since then, and touching up the paint. Though they'll probably preserve as much of the original paint as they can. (which is in remarkably good condition) All battle damage would remain but all decaying components and fabric control surfaces should be restored to display condition.

But I'm not sure what the actual plans are, though it is supposed to be displayed as it was just after bing shot down.


And as for flying condition this doesn't seem likely in this case but some other Buffalo wrecks seem to be surfacing so there's still a chance.
And just because a plane is the last of its kind doesn't mean it they won't fly it, look at Planes of Fame, they have the only authentic P-26 and its still flying and there's also the only fully authentic A6M still flying with original Sake engine!
 
kool kitty89 said:
But I'm not sure what the actual plans are, though it is supposed to be displayed as it was just after bing shot down.
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The BW-372 will be "restored" to the state it was after raising the plane from the lake. So no new paint jobs, canvas or anything like that. Just repairing the damage made to the fuselage (it's in two parts now) etc.
 
The plane's currently residing in Florida:

 
Some more stuff on the Buffalo from this site with pics and links to the story about it.

Military Photos . net
 

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Muddy bogs and the bottoms of cold fresh water lakes have actually been found to be great preservers.
That's probably why both the plane and the tank (anyone notice the German Panzer markings on the turret?!) survived as well as they did.
I remember a story from around here where an elderly couple went for a drive in 1924 and were never seen again.
70+ years later their car was found at the bottom of Lake Washington.
The bodies were so many bones by that time, but the car was still remarkably intact.
Probably the same process that petrifies fallen trees found in lake bottoms, apply here (maybe).

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NJaco,

Great drawing of that plane (top pic).
Looks like one from a website I used to frequent that dealt with different WWII airplanes, all catagorized by country.



Elvis
 
anaerobic environments!

warships from the American revolution have been found remarkably intact in the great lakes..
 
Elvis, thats from that forum website. It is pretty different from most profiles you see.

And I too noticed the German marking. Funny I just read where when the T-34 first appaered that German crews would sometimes use captured examples. The marking looks early 1940 though.
 
NJaco,

That pic is from somewhere else, too.
If I ever find the site again (it may not exist anymore), I'll let ya know.

Re: T-34.
The Germans gained great respect from that tank very quickly, as nothing in the German arsenal, short of the Pak42 75mm gun fired at close range, could penetrate the T-34's armour.
The German commanders were VERY surprised by the performance of this tank, especially considering that they thought of the average Russian's mentality as being quite "simple" and thus, they could have never designed such a fine piece of battlefield armour.
The T-34 was a landmark fighting vehicle. That's for sure.




Elvis
 
Some deserts preserve things remakably well too as long as sand isn't too prevelant. The California Mojave desert can be a bit harder on iron/steel though due (realitively) higher humidity, but there hve been some remakably well presered cars and such found in Navada deserts (lower humidity) well over 50 years later.
 
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