A war pilot 80 years birthday - requesting virtual pilots' participation
A pilot of Finnish Air Force, professor Kauko Aho, has today his 80 years birthday. Mr. Aho has tremendously helped the Virtual Pilots Finland Association's aviation history research, and without him we most likely wouldn't be anywhere near the current situation - having close ties to Finnish war pilots' association.
Mr. Aho has participated in several virtual pilots' conventions, joined us in field trips and local virtual pilots have visited him and his wonderful wife Hilkka several times in his home. Mr. Aho is more than "just a war pilot", he is a resource, a friend of simulator pilots and wonderful, loveable old gentleman who has always been ready to help virtual pilots in any way he can.
It is too late to collect a big list of congratulations to him for today, but our association has already sent him a big flower arrangement with a greeting card.
I am now though collecting birthday greetings from virtual pilots - from all over the world. Make me and make a old man happy by giving him a birthday greeting!
Please give a message of any kind and lenght and your name & location.
I will deliver the greetings personally next week.
Professor Kauko Aho
Kauko Aho featured in Virtual PIlots Finland aviation history:
Kauko Aho - the tale of a bomber pilot
This is second article about mr. Kauko Aho, a Finnish Air Force Blenheim pilot. This article was originally written by Ken Arnold, and it gives a larger scale picture about mr. Aho's youth, career and postwar life.
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/hist/WW2History-KaukoAhoProfile.htmlKauko Aho - Blenheim Pilot In The Continuation War
Kauko Aho flew Blenheim bomber in Flying Regiment 2 / Bomber Squadron 42 in the battles of 1944 and acted as Blenheim radio operator/gunner during Winter War 1939-40. This article is collection of stories told by mr. Aho in two meetings early 2001.
"Then I saw two round-nosed fighters coming from behind. They approached terribly fast. They came to our side and I saw the black crosses in the fuselage and swastika in the rudder. And then there were more, they were all around us."
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/hist/WW2History-KaukoAhoEnglish.html
