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Daniel Cox

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Hi All,

Here are some Finnish Hurricane pictures;

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57820

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76665

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76666

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80916

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80919

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172640

All images SA-kuva.

More Hurricane pictures that are greater than 4900 pixels wide can be found here at the Finnish Wartime Photographic Archive.

Cheers,

Daniel.

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Hi, all,

Yep, the title would better be "Hurricanes in Finland"...

Is the Finnish one a fabric-winged one? (Geez, I have forgotten the basic recognition drill... i.e., the position of the landing light...)

Fernando

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Hi All,

They are Finnish Hurricane pictures as in they are pictures of Hurricanes that are sourced from a Finnish archival source. The first two pictures are of a Finnish airframes while the other ones are of Soviet ones as evidenced by the serial numbers, application of star national markings, variant and much more. I don't consider the identities of these aircraft particularly controversial.

Cheers,

Daniel.

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Hello!

I try to give some additional information for two of the Soviet Hurricane cases.

I started a thread once here of the Hurricane "42":

"Hurricane IIA Z2585 , Soviet "42" " http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/50604-hurricane-iia-z2585-soviet-42

I find the thought of the plane being painted with mixed gray and Dark Green and the British markings later painted over with Ocean Grey and Dark Green quite attracting even if not correct.

The badly mangled Hurricane (photos 127636 and 12640) is claimed to have been shot down with three rifle shots one cutting the steering cable to elevator. The shooter was private from the mortar platoon of Jalkaväkirykmentti 32 (Infantry Regiment 32). I don't remember the Batallion number right now, if any. I believe it is fifty-fifty probablity that it was just pilot error during high speed dash at very low altitude, but the shoot-down makes way better story. I researched the incident few years ago and this is the first instance the story is in public. There is some more to it, too. I thought it would appear in Juri Rybin's Soviet Hurricane Aces -book (via a certain middleman) but no joy. Perhaps saved for later opus?

One can find more photos of the wreck simply using search word Röhö* (don't forget the asterisk!) at the SA-kuva archive site. The name is the location where the Hurricane came down. Quite up North. In one of the photos one can see fuselage side panel with BG790 painted on. It only took couple of years for me to recognize it in the xerox copy of the photo. I only needed to rotate the photo "upside down" to read the serial. Go figure!. Slow on uptake, me... Interior colour on the panel looks to be silver, BTW. BG790 seems to have bort number 2_ the latter digit might be 5 or 6 but perhaps the collective us can press it out from the photo (12640)? I have not been able to and would be pleased to know the answer.

Cheers,

Kari

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Is'nt there going to be a new Airfix Hurricane that will be the mark/model that was supplied to Finlnd ? If so there are a variety of interesting camouflage schemes to paint, especially the worn Winter look.

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Is'nt there going to be a new Airfix Hurricane that will be the mark/model that was supplied to Finlnd ? If so there are a variety of interesting camouflage schemes to paint, especially the worn Winter look.

Steve

the Finns got 12 hurricanes, all Mk I's, a few with Fabric wings [4 or 5], all with DH Spitfire type props and 5 spoke wheels.

The new Airfix Hurricane is fabric winged.

AFAIK no Finnish Hurricane ever got a winter white finish, initially in RAF colours, when overhauled they got Finnish colours.

That gives you the choice of two schemes... One Hurricane survived untouched since 1943 and is a real time capsule, pics of it are on here, the interior is of particular interest.

I can post up links if you can't find them.

They also captured 4 Hurricanes from the VVS which got shot down, parts of which were used to make one complete plane. From memory, white 60 'Za Stalina', white 42, Z3577 and another, maybe the wreck above, BG790.

HTH

T

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  • 4 years later...

@Max Headroom  as promised,  a bump up.

I posted some info here

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235024089-hurricane-in-finnish-service/

 

which i'll copy over  ...

 

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the Finns captured several mostly  Mk.II's, Z2585 was a 'bitsa'  IIRC from various airframes, and I think has IIB wings .

My comments were about the 12 MkI's originally bought.  

 

 I've seen photos of 4 which were salvaged, (white 42/Z2585, )

being salvaged

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, White 60/BM959,

 

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white 55/Z2916

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Z3577

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IIRC this was the fuselage used on HC465

 

 

though I think Vesa is correct...

On 02/05/2013 at 13:41, Vesa Jussila said:

Hurricane #42 is ex-RAF Z2585 and was made by Hawker. Fuselage was used for HC-465 and wings for HC-456. HC-456 was originally fabric wings and this is reason for change.

 

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Daniel pics are gone,  but have the Sa-Kuva reference number

stick those into the search at http://sa-kuva.fi/neo

eg 57820

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The downloadable photographs from the Wartime Photograph Archive can be used by anyone. When you publish a photograph from the archive, mention "SA-kuva" as the source. (This means "Finnish Armed Forces photograph" in Finnish.) Please note that you can only conduct searches in Finnish.

note there is a facilty to dowload a high res version.

 

more

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80919

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