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Some rarities from Finnish Aviation Museum
08-15-2010, 04:23 AM, (This post was last modified: 08-15-2010, 04:46 AM by Crossroads.)
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RE: Some rarities from Finnish Aviation Museum
I believe the Fokker in the museum is painted as they appeared in Winter War.

The box cover of the Fokker, with the black/dark green camouflage is propably (I might be wrong though, did not do any research) a later war specification, used in 1941 and forward (Continuation War), as that was the standard camo pattern of the era, and was used in Brewsters as well.

I would personally use the olive green / Winter War variant, as that was the time when the plane made it self famous in Finland. In 1941, it was already quite seriously out dated...

(The Finnish ME-109 at the museum seems like a rushed job that was taken directly in the use, with an addition of the Finnish insignias and yellow east front tactical markings only. That certainly looks like a German camo to me... That happened a lot in summer 1944 as the Soviet offensive took Finns by surprise and they ordered a lot of material in a haste.)

EDIT: found this http://koti.mbnet.fi/~jjuvonen/planes_fi...1_fin.html It is in Finnish, but hopefully google can translate it to you. Ltn Sarvanto was propably the most famous of Fokker pilots, having made his name by downing six DB-2 bombers in just five minutes. That model is olive green as well. His story is at the bottom of the link.
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RE: Some rarities from Finnish Aviation Museum - by Crossroads - 08-15-2010, 04:23 AM

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