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A word about swastikas on Finnish aircraft -- please read
The Finnish Air Force adopted a blue swastika on white background as their official insignia in 1918.
The German Nazi party adopted a black swastika on white background as their symbol in 1920.
They do not share the same ideology.
The symbol has actually been used by many civilizations and for thousands of years. To the Finns it was known as a Hakaristi ("Broken Cross"), a symbol of good luck.
The Finnish Air Force later changed their roundel to alternating blue/white circles starting April 1945 to avoid the association.
Most of the photos below are before the roundel change, in black & white, so they might look like they are Nazi aircraft, but they're really not.
Rather than try to photoshop every image, or to choose pictures with uninformative viewing angles, I instead ask you to understand the distinction.
The goal of this project is simply to look closely at Finnish aircraft designs in order to understand how they might be portrayed in-game.
If you do not understand the distinction, or you think you might be easily offended, consider yourself warned and go do something else!
In order to avoid this kind of confusion, the roundel to be used in game would probably be the alternating blue/white circles used after 1946:
Premiums, alternates, gift planes (tiers approx):
Tier | Alternate | Alternate | Alternate | Alternate | Omissions |
I | IVL Haukka I/II | see here | |||
II |
Hawker Hart Westland Lysander |
see here | |||
III | Blackburn Roc | Dornier Do 17Z1/2/3 | |||
IV |
Fiat G.50 Hawker Hurricane |
Caudron C.714 | Tupolev SB |
Ilyushin DB-3M Ilyushin IL-4 |
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V | |||||
VI |
Valmet Puuska Curtiss P-40M Focke-Wulf Fw 190 |
Junkers Ju 87 Focke-Wulf Fw 190 |
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VII | |||||
VIII | |||||
IX |
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Vampire DH.115 T.55 MiG-15 UTI Fouga Magister |
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X |
MiG-21 Ilyushin IL-28 |
General
Finnish Air Force Aircraft Codes -- quick overview and general accountability; if it was issued a designation it should show up here
Finnish Air Force 1918-1968, by Christopher Shores (Aircram Aviation Series No. S2) -- close history and accountability at the squadron level
Finnish Air Force 1939-1945, by Kalevi Keskinen and Kari Stenman (1998 Squadron Signal Publications)
Finnish Aces of World War Two, by Kalevi Keskinen and Kari Stenman (1998 Osprey Publishing)
The Complete Book of Fighters, by William Green and Gordon Swanborough (2001 Salamander Books) -- good overall details of materialized fighter types
Fighters Between the Wars 1919-1939, by Kenneth Munson (1970 Blandford)
Combat Aircraft of World War Two, by Elke C. Weal, John A. Weal, and Richard F. Barker (1977 Macmillan Publishing Co.) -- WW2 order of battle and configuration details
Gloster Aircraft Since 1917, by Derek N. James (1971 Putnam)
Fokker - The Man And His Aircraft, by Henri Hegener (1961 Aero Publishers)
Biplanes, Triplanes, and Seaplanes, by Michael Sharpe (2000 Amber)
Wikipedia -- for quick inquiry and to identify primary sources
websites where noted
Flying Guns of World War II, by Anthony G. Williams & Dr. Emmanuel Gustin (2003 Airlife Publishing, an imprint of The Crowood Press Ltd)
Specific
U.S. Naval Fighters, by Lloyd S. Jones (1977 Aero Publishers) -- Buffalo B-239 details
Westland Aircraft Since 1915, by Derek N. James (1991 Putnam Aeronautical) -- Westland Lysander and designer Teddy Petter
The Fokker G.I (Profile Publications 134)
Dornier Aircraft, by Karl Kössler -- Dornier Do 22 details
Dornier Fly-Past Reference Library, by Bob Ogden (1983 Key Publishing) -- Dornier Do 22 details
Soviet Aircraft and Aviation 1917-1941, by Lennart Andersson (1994 Putnam Aeronautical) -- Petlyakov Pe-2/3 details
Curtiss P-40: Long-nosed Tomahawks, by Carl Molesworth (2013 Osprey) -- Hawk 75 export specs (sent to France, but not necessarily the same used by Finland)
Fighters of the Fifties, by Bill Gunston (1981 Specialty Press) -- De Havilland Vampire, Folland Gnat
From Lysander to Lightning: Teddy Petter, Aircraft Designer, by Glyn Davies (source) -- very detailed account of Folland Gnat flight testing and development
MiG: Fifty Years of Secret Aircraft Design, by R. A. Beliakov -- MiG-15 UTI details
Version 1.06 -- current -- revised based on Gloster Gladiator placement for United Kingdom
Version 1.05 -- rough draft
old notes:
Inventory + Rough placement
Tier | "Allied" origin | Finland | "Axis" origin |
I |
Gloster Gamecock II
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I.V.L. D.26 Haukka I.V.L. D.27 Haukka II VL Pyry II |
Jaktfalken |
II |
Gloster Gladiator II [also used by Sweden] (414 km/h @ 4450m)
Bristol Bulldog IVA [also used by Sweden] (delivered 1933-1935) Westland Lysander I/III (1940) I-15bis Fokker C.X -- two-seat
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III |
I-153 / I-16 / Fokker G.1B -- twin-engine twin-boom heavy fighter |
VL (Fokker) D.XXI (bought 1937; see also projects) | |
IV |
Brewster B-239 Buffalo Curtiss Hawk 75A-3 (1940; captured from France by Germans) Curtiss Hawk 75A-6 (1940; captured from Norway by Germans) Hawker Hurricane I (1940) Bristol Blenheim I/IV (ordered 1936; license 1938) I-16 / Ilyushin DB-3/3F / Tupolev SB-2/2bis MS.406/410 Mörkö-Morane (1944; used captured Russian engine/armament) Caudron C.714 (05/1940) |
VL Humu (Buffalo copy)
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Fiat G.50 / |
V |
LaGG-3 (1942; captured from USSR by Germans) Petlyakov Pe-2 (1942; captured from USSR by Germans) Petlyakov Pe-3 (1943; captured from USSR by Germans) |
VL Myrsky I/II (1942/1944) | |
VI | Curtiss P-40M (captured from USSR) |
VL Pyörremyrsky (11/1945) Valmet Puuska Valmet Vihuri I (1946 Mosquito w/ DB605's planned but not built) |
Focke-Wulf Fw190 Junkers Ju87D |
VII |
Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2 (03/1943) Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 (04/1944) |
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VIII | De Havilland Vampire FB.52 (1953-1962) |
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IX | |||
X | Folland FO 145 Gnat (1958-1972) |
Country of origin: USA / UK / Germany / Italy / France / Sweden / U.S.S.R. salvaged/captured / Norway
key = (first flight) [horsepower] {Production}
Lower interest (bombers, floatplanes, etc.) / omit
Tier | Aircraft |
I |
Aero A.32 / Hansa A.22 / Junkers K.34 / Gourdou-Lesseurre GL-21 / more |
II |
Douglas DC-2 converted to bomber ("Hanssin Jukka") / Fokker T.VIII / Høver M.F.11 / more, see Fall of Norway / Dornier Do 22 / Heinkel He 59 / more |
III | |
IV |
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V | |
VI | |
VII | |
VIII | jet trainers |
IX | |
X | Ilyushin IL-28 (~1962) [also used by China] / MiG-15 UTI / |
Investigate
-- floatplanes = most aircraft before mid 1930's
Raw data
Order of Battle – November 1939 (from Elke C. Weal’s Combat Aircraft of World War Two):
Fokker C.X -- two-seat light bomber/recon
Fokker C.V-E -- two-seat light bomber/recon
Fieseler Fi 156C Storch -- recon
Blackburn Ripon IIF -- two-seat recon/torpedo bomber
Junkers K 43 -- militarized transport
VL Saaski -- two-seat trainer/recon
VL Kotka -- two-seat patrol
De Havilland Moth -- trainer
Fokker D.XXI
Bristol Bulldog IVA
Bristol Blenheim I
Timeline
1918 Finnish Civil War
1939 Winter War
1941 Continuation War
1947 Paris Peace treaty -- limitations
Designers/Personalities
-- VL Myrsky (Tier IV)
-- VL Pyorremyrsky (Tier VI)
-- Westland Lysander (Tier II)
-- Folland Gnat (VIII-X)
Edited by J311yfish, 27 June 2021 - 05:08 PM.