i-16

[cp101]

bad influence ah clearly staes on the skin editor "no swastikas allowed" and there are 5 swasikas on the i-16

[choppit]

I think you're talking about the Brewster........


Thats not the Swastika in the context that they're not allowed, thats the FAF's roundel, and they had it since 1918 IIRC. I'm sure many people can give a more in-depth explanation to this.

[Wmaker]

 

bad influence ah clearly staes on the skin editor "no swastikas allowed" and there are 5 swasikas on the i-16

[Motherland]

Contrary to (unfortunately) popular belief, the Swastika was not a Nazi symbol. It was around for thousands of years, being associated with good luck in cultures around the world before the Nazis defaced it and gave it a new connotation for Western Culture, and is still held as a holy symbol and a good luck symbol in many Eastern cultures. The blue swastika in the white circle was adopted as the roundel for the Finnish Air Force in 1918, 2 years before it was adopted as the symbol of the Nazi party.

There are other examples of pre Nazi use of the Swastika here.
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,265939.75.html

[MachFly]

bad influence ah clearly staes on the skin editor "no swastikas allowed" and there are 5 swasikas on the i-16

WHAT??

[Ack-Ack]

bad influence ah clearly staes on the skin editor "no swastikas allowed" and there are 5 swasikas on the i-16

Take some time to read this and educate yourself.

It must be noted that the Finnish blue swastika (hakaristi) famously used on the Finnish aircraft during the war was not a Nazi symbol. Apart from aircraft, different designs of the swastika was used on armoured vehicles, awards (Order of the Cross of Freedom for example), the Anti-Aircraft Artillery, the Lotta Svärd organization (female auxiliaries) and on flags (for example the one used by the President 1920-1944) to name a few examples.

It was originally a Hindi symbol of luck used by the family of the Swedish Count Eric von Rosen who donated the first aircraft, a Thulin D Parasol (a license-built Morane-Saulnier L), to the Finnish (White) Army 6 Mar 1918 during the Finnish War of Independence (or Finnish Civil War).

It was adopted as the national marking of the Finnish Air Force in honour of him and later on also by the Army.

After the war, the swastika was abandoned as a symbol and instead a blue and white roundel was adopted.

Another example of swastika use during the inter-war period not influenced by the German NSDAP was the red swastika used by Latvia as the national symbol on their aircraft

Here are some other examples.

Captured T-50 tank


StuG IIIG


Latil M2TL6


and of course, the Brewster.


Source


ack-ack

[choppit]

and there are 5 swasikas on the i-16

I only count 4 

[MachFly]

Take some time to read this and educate yourself.

I don't know, I just don't see any swastikas on the I-16


And calling a brewster an I-16 is like calling 190 a spitfire.

[Ack-Ack]

I don't know, I just don't see any swastikas on the I-16


And calling a brewster an I-16 is like calling 190 a spitfire.

Because it's quite obvious that the OP was referring to the Brewster but isn't bright enough to realize that he posted the pictures of the wrong plane.


ack-ack

[USCH]

they are there just look vary vary vary vary close 

[Nilsen]

bad influence ah clearly staes on the skin editor "no swastikas allowed" and there are 5 swasikas on the i-16

Dont expect a Pulitzer for that bit of investigating journalism even if it was first class 

[texastc316]

summertime. get the bugspray

[Die Hard]

Killmarks? I can't see toejam.

[Spikes]

bad influence ah clearly staes on the skin editor "no swastikas allowed" and there are 5 swasikas on the i-16

[Cajunn]