Oh ffs! BF109 'Red 7' damaged AGAIN!

[Happy Times]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Nice. I dont think we have any big airshows in Finland, especially any with WWII planes.

Kauhava is pretty big, we have some others at times.
WW2 planes though are rare in Finland.

http://www.lentajienjuhannus.fi/airshow

Midnight Sun Airshow 2007


Rissala Airshow 2007 Highlights

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Breaks my heart. 'Black 6' going to China.



I think we are all familiar with these landings from IL2.

WHAT!!!

This one?


Is it a loan or good bye?

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Happy Times

Kauhava is pretty big, we have some others at times.
WW2 planes though are rare in Finland.

http://www.lentajienjuhannus.fi/airshow

Midnight Sun Airshow 2007


Rissala Airshow 2007 Highlights

Aye, I'm familiar with them, but I'm not a fan of jets so.

Mentioned already a while back, but the last Airshow I went to (EAA Airventure thing in Oshkosh) I saw this crash first hand: (guy in the green plane didn't walk away)

[mcf1]

Here is a greek spitfire. A real beauty I've seen her many times.

[HunterICX]

A beauty indeed, a left over of the Greek Civil war :hmm: ?

HunterICX

[mcf1]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

A beauty indeed, a left over of the Greek Civil war :hmm: ?

HunterICX

Well a bit more complicated
After the Nazis captured Greece, all what was left of RHAF {Royal Hellenic Air Force(was Royal back then)}
escaped to the middle east and africa and fought along side with RAF.
The English gave a few spitfires in the early 1944 to replace the hurricanes,
after the war they returned back to Greece and fought in the civil war
From 1949 until 1954 when they were retired Greece had about 300 of them.

[mcf1]

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: OK I understand, you can't see what is in front of you when you taxi in this plane, but at least he could check if anything is standing around the plane before he got in. And I don't think, that helo just came out of nowhere.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Nice. I dont think we have any big airshows in Finland, especially any with WWII planes. Tho, IIRC, we have 2 Messerschmitt 109s in museums. :hmm:

EDIT:

The one at Utti


EDIT2:

And here's the one stored in Tikkakoski, the MT-507. Last flying 109 of the Finnish Air Force.

I don't know how I missed this thread! Nice pix dowly! What other planes do those Finnish museums have?

[Stealth Hunter]

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

I don't know how I missed this thread! Nice pix dowly! What other planes do those Finnish museums have?

There's two slightly bigger museums that stick out, Vantaa's museum, which pretty much only has civilian planes and then there's the "Finnish Air Force Museum" at Tikkakosi which has mainly military planes. Mig21, Saab Safir, Draken, VL Humu (Finn's own model based heavily on Brewster Buffalo), Me109G and finnish Pyörremyrsky. There's some more planes, but I think those are the one's worth mentioning.