VL Myrsky
The VL Myrsky ("Storm") is a Finnish World War II fighter aircraft originally developed by Valtion lentokonetehdas for the Finnish Air Force. The models of the aircraft were Myrsky I, Myrsky II, and Myrsky III. It was designed by Edward Wegelius, Martti Vainio and Torsti Verkkola who worked at Valtion lentokonetehdas. Development The decision to start developing a new fighter for the Finnish Air Force was based on experience gained before the Winter War: in the "arms race" leading up to a war, smaller nations can have difficulty purchasing top-of-the-line fighters without a significant political cost. The Finnish Air Force requested preliminary proposals for a domestic fighter from State Aircraft Factory (Valtion Lentokonetehdas) in early 1939, before the Winter War. State Aircraft Factory prepared five alternative proposals by May 1939. After that, The Ministry of Defence ordered the fighter design from State Aircraft Factory in June 1939. The preliminary design was made b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Finnish Air Force
The Finnish Air Force (FAF or FiAF; ; ) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. Its peacetime tasks are airspace surveillance, identification flights, and production of readiness formations for wartime conditions. The Finnish Air Force was founded on 6 March 1918. History The Finnish Air Force, one of the oldest air forces of the world, pre-dates the British RAF (founded as an independent entity on 1 April 1918) and the Swedish (founded on 1 July 1926). The first steps in the history of Finnish aviation involved Russian aircraft. The Russian military had a number of early designs stationed in the Grand Duchy of Finland, which until the Russian Revolution of 1917 formed an autonomous grand duchy under the Russian Empire. Soon after the Finnish declaration of independence of 6 December 1917, the Finnish Civil War of January to May 1918 broke out, in which the Soviets sided with the ''Reds'' – the socialist rebels with ties to Lenin's Bolshevik Party. Finland' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Continuation War
The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet–Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II. It began with a Finnish declaration of war on 25 June 1941 and ended on 19 September 1944 with the Moscow Armistice. The Soviet Union and Finland had previously fought the Winter War from 1939 to 1940, which ended with the Soviet failure to conquer Finland and the Moscow Peace Treaty. Numerous reasons have been proposed for the Finnish decision to invade, with regaining territory lost during the Winter War regarded as the most common. Other justifications for the conflict include Finnish President Risto Ryti's vision of a Greater Finland and Commander-in-Chief Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's desire to annex East Karelia. The following paragraph contains a bundle of cites for the Finnish participation in the siege of Leningrad, which is a commonly debated complex issue in the article (see talk).--> On 22 June 1941 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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VKT LKk/42
Browning Aircraft Machine Gun - F.N. Caliber 13.2 mm (), more commonly known as the ''13.2 mm FN Browning'', but also ''13.2 mm Browning-F.N.'', ''F.N. Caliber 13.2 mm'', ''FN Browning M.1939'' and the like, was a caliber, shell-firing, heavy machine gun for aircraft use, designed by Fabrique Nationale (FN) in Herstal, Belgium, as a private export venture during the final years prior to World War II. Even though it gained great interest during its limited time on the export market, it only managed to be exported to the air forces of Romania and Sweden prior to the German invasion of Belgium in 1940, later also being pirate produced in Finland with the help from Sweden. Development and description The 13.2 mm FN Browning was developed by FN as an improved version of the Browning air-cooled MG53 aircraft machine gun. Improvements to the original design included: making the weapon lighter, increasing the rate of fire and offering it in not just 12.7×99mm ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pratt & Whitney R-1830-SC3-G Twin Wasp
The Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp is an American air-cooled radial aircraft engine. It has 14 cylinders, arranged in two rings of seven. It displaces and its bore and stroke are both . The design traces its history to 1929 experiments at Pratt & Whitney on twin-row designs. Production began in 1932 and it was widely used during the 1930s. It was selected as the power plant for both the four-engined Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber and the twin-engined Douglas DC-3 transport, two of the most-produced aircraft. The production run of 173,618 R-1830 examples makes it the most-produced aviation engine in history. A further developed version, the R-2000, was produced starting in 1942. The R-2000 was "bored-out" to and had a number of other minor changes to improve fuel economy and allow it to run at higher power ratings on lower-octane fuel. The primary user of the R-2000 was the Douglas DC-4. Mostly retired today, the R-1830 is still used on Douglas DC-3 and va ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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VL and variants may refer to: Science and technology * Daisy V/L, the first production rifle for caseless ammunition * Ventral lateral nucleus, a component of the thalamus in the central nervous system * Visceral leishmaniasis, an infectious disease Transportation * Holden Commodore (VL), an automobile introduced by Holden in 1986 * City Airlines (IATA code: VL), a German regional airline subsidiary of Lufthansa * Air VIA (former IATA code: VL), a Bulgarian charter airline * , the former Finnish State aircraft manufacturer Abbreviations * ''Vapauden liitto'', the Freedom Alliance (Finland), Freedom Alliance, Finnish political party Other uses * ''Verbotene Liebe'', ("Forbidden Love"), a German soap opera * Flanders (), one of the three regions of Belgium * Volume licensing, using one license for many computers or users * Vulgar Latin, nonstandard sociolects of Latin from which the Romance languages developed See also * Vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL), for rocket ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Finnish Air Force Museum
The Finnish Air Force Museum (), formerly the Aviation Museum of Central Finland (), is an aviation museum located near Jyväskylä Airport in Tikkakoski, Jyväskylä, Finland. The museum exhibits the aviation history of Finland, from the early 1900s until today. The museum is owned by the Foundation of Aviation Museum of Central Finland (). The exhibition consists of aircraft, engines and aircrew equipment which has been used by the Finnish Air Force. The equipment of the Air Force Signals Museum has its own section. A large collection of scale models gives a wider perspective to the whole field of aviation. The museum has around 25,000 visitors. Aircraft The following aircraft are a selection of the collection. More aircraft are being stored elsewhere, waiting for restoration. * Avro 504K * Bell P-39 Airacobra * Brewster Buffalo * Bristol Blenheim * De Havilland D.H.60X Moth * De Havilland D.H. 115 Vampire Trainer T.Mk.55 * Douglas DC-3 i.e. C-47 * Focke-Wulf Fw 44 J St ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä () is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Central Finland. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Jyväskylä is approximately , while the Jyväskylä sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately . It is Finland's most populous Municipalities of Finland, municipality, and fifth most populous List of urban areas in Finland by population, urban area. Jyväskylä is located about northeast of Tampere, the third largest city in Finland; and about north of Helsinki, the national capital. The Jyväskylä sub-region includes Jyväskylä, Hankasalmi, Laukaa, Muurame, Petäjävesi, Toivakka, and Uurainen. Other neighbouring municipalities of Jyväskylä are Joutsa, Jämsä and Luhanka. Jyväskylä is the largest city in the Central Finland and Finnish Lakeland region. Jyväskylä was one of the fastest growing cities in Finland during the 20th century; in 1940, there were only 8,000 inhabitants in Jyväskylä. Elias Lönnrot, the auth ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jyväskylä Airport
Jyväskylä Airport (; ) is an airport in Jyväskylä, Finland. It is in the center of the Finnish Lake District, about north of the center of Jyväskylä. The airport terminal was renovated in the fall of 2004. The Air Force Academy operations are stationed at the airport. The main campus of the Air Force Academy is about from the airport. The Aviation Museum of Central Finland is near the airport. History The airport was founded as an air-force base in 1939. The first commercial flight left the airport 6 years later in 1945. On August 2, 2010, Finncomm Airlines announced it will stop its service between Helsinki and Jyväskylä on August 16, 2010. However the break was very short as Finnair and Finncomm reached an agreement in September 2010 that Finncomm will take over several Finnair's domestic routes. As a result of that, Finnair stopped its flights to Jyväskylä in late October 2010 and Finncomm started to operate those flights as co-operation with Finnair. On Septembe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Finnish Aviation Museum
The Finnish Aviation Museum (, ) is a museum specialising in aircraft, located near Helsinki Airport in Veromies, Vantaa, Finland. History The Aviation Museum Society () was founded on 4 December 1969. Opened in 1972, the museum was initially located in the basement of the Helsinki Airport terminal but received its own facilities in 1981. The museum has constantly expanded and today has an office wing, research rooms, aviation library, archive, and an auditorium for 200 people. Currently the museum is owned by the Finnish Aviation Museum Foundation (), founded in 1996. Exhibition The museum displays some 9,600 items, and the library has over 16,000 books and 160,000 aviation-related magazines. Furthermore, the museum has a large collection of flight instruction and service books. There are also some 78,000 photographs, negatives, and slides. The archive spans some 1,800 shelf metres. The whole collection comprises some 80 aircraft, of which 22 are gliders. The following is a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Valmet Vihuri
Valmet Vihuri (Finnish language, Finnish for ''Gale'') was a Finland, Finnish advanced two-seat fighter trainer aircraft, serving in the Finnish Air Force between 1953 and 1959. Only a few airframes have survived, including one at the Central Finland Aviation Museum in Finland. History In spite of their economic problems, the aircraft manufacturer Valmet began designing a new aircraft at the beginning of the 1950s, to replace the aging Finnish Air Force (FAF) VL Pyrys. Martti Vainio was the chief designer of the project. Most of the planning was made by the aeronautical engineers L. Hämäläinen and T. Mäntysalo in 1948–49. The Bristol Mercury, then being manufactured under Manufacturing license, license in Finland for the Bristol Blenheim bomber, was chosen as the engine, since it was readily available. The prototype (VH-1) made its first flight on 6 February 1951, in Tampere, piloted by captain Esko Halme. After successful test flights, the FAF ordered 30 production aircraft ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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VL Pyörremyrsky
The VL Pyörremyrsky ("Hurricane") is a Finland, Finnish fighter plane, designed by DI Torsti Verkkola at the State Aircraft Factory (''Valtion lentokonetehdas'') for service with the Finnish Air Force in World War II. The war ended before the type's first flight and only a prototype was built. History On 26 November 1942 the Finnish Air Force ordered two ''Pyörremyrsky'' prototypes to be built. The aircraft were to be ready by May 1944. One prototype was later cancelled and only one aircraft was ever built. The aircraft designation ''VMT Pyörremyrsky'' is also sometimes used, as the factory had been formed into the State Metal Factories (''Valmet, Valtion Metallitehtaat'') during the construction of the aircraft. The Finnish Air Force airplane code letters PM gave the plane nickname ''Puu-Mersu'' (Wooden Messerschmitt), but the plane was an independent design. The use of wood in the construction of the aircraft was maximized due to the scarcity of metals. The goal was to create ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ersatz
An ersatz good () is a substitute good, especially one that is considered inferior to the good it replaces. It has particular connotations of wartime usage. Etymology ''Ersatz'' is a German word meaning ''substitute'' or ''replacement''. Although it is used as an adjective in English, it is a noun in German. In German orthography noun phrases formed are usually represented as a single word, forming compound nouns such as ''Ersatzteile'' ("spare parts") or ''Ersatzspieler'' ("substitute player"). While ''ersatz'' in English generally means that the substitution is of unsatisfactory or inferior quality compared with the "real thing", in German, there is no such implication: e.g., ''Ersatzteile'' 'spare parts' is a technical expression without any implication about quality, ''Kaffeeersatz'' ' coffee substitute' is a drink from something other than coffee beans, and ''Ersatzzug'' 'replacement train' performs a comparable service. The term for inferior substitute in German would be ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |