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    Beggars can’t be chooser – Brewster Buffalo B-239 (Hobby 2000 1:72)

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    Spectacular finish and diorama. Well done!

     

    The version of the Buffalo that the Finns used was the better one, based on the F2A-1, which didn't have the weight and poor power problems of the next variants. A more closer look at the history of the Buffalo shows that, although indeed its performance suffered, it was maligned for the wrong reasons. The British used it as a scapegoat to cover up the poor state of its forces in SE Asia and the lack of measures taken to prepare for a Japanese attack and its deathknell at Midway came because most of the pilots who flew it there were inexperienced, having recently replaced those that had been trained on the type and who had been reassigned to other units.

     

    Miguel

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