Now, this should be major riot to you fellow aviation freaks.
I am processing old war time news reels to MPEG-format and thought to share this immediately with you. It is a Finnish Armed Forces newsreel, titled
"Defence Forces present: our air force in action".
It is a fantastic clip of newsclips - war filmographers operating in airfields, filming crews and maintenance people - and taking part in the combat flights. The films supposedly tells about the Finnish Air Force operations of one day - from the moment pilots and mechanics start preparing the planes, through the combat flight and until the landing and pilots stepping out of the planes. Pure orgasm all through!
There is no year and date for the operations, but logically it dates to the major battles of July/August 1944, since there are Gefechtverband Kuhlmey's Focke Wulfs and Stukas shown also (II./JG54 "Grünhertz", Stukas: I./SG 3 and of I./SG 5). More information about those events can be read for example from EMC 29 "Finland'44" site:
http://www3.ient.com/emc/29/index.html And what makes it even better for all you foreigners - there is not a word spoken in Finnish ;-) It is all just engine noise and black/white film.
The clip will be available for limited time only. Grab and save it to your HDs. I'm also not publishing this outside the virtual pilots newsgroups (Aces High, WarBirds and Finnish virtual pilot's message groups), so it is very specially for you only.
http://www.byterapers.com/~grendel/scan/aviation/puolustusvoimat_esittaa-lentojoukkojemme_toimintaa.mpg Video-CD compatible MPEG, 85 MB.
Planes types shown:
SB-2 submarine hunters
Blenheim bombers
Ju-88 bombers
Messerchmitt 109s
Stukas
Focke Wulfs
Betcha you have never seen so many plane types from such many nations operating in one side ;-)
Special notice:
1:42
And who is that blonde fella?
Yes! The double fighter knight, receiver of highest FInnish military award - twice!
Ilmari Juutilainen
Finland's Ace of Aces, 96 confirmed victories
Enjoy, Grendel
