Because I like finnish aircraft

[LLv34_Camouflage]

 

Eino Ilmari "Illu" Juutilainen's Brewster Buffalo BW-364.  He achieved 94 1/6 kills in 437 sorties (36 in Brewster and 58 in Messerschmitt 109 G-2 and G-6). His aircraft was never hit by an enemy bullet.

Thanks for the model Jerry!  

Btw HTC - that's a 3DSMax 2.5 model - almost ready to be implemented into the game?  

Camo

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XO, Lentolaivue 34
 www.muodos.fi/LLv34

Brewster into AH!

"The really good pilots use their superior judgement to keep them out of situations
where they might be required to demonstrate their superior skill."

[Citabria]

I hope if they model the brewster its the stripped down lightened finnish version.

[juzz]

Looks nice!   Whats the specs on those things though?

[Sorrow[S=A]]

I would have thought the fueselage plug would be longer :?

After all, that one looks like you could barely fit enough beer in the back for a celebration party never mind the girls, bonfire firewood and rover too  

[Karnak]

And include the fixed engine.

The Finns figured out what none of the Allied nations flying the thing did, why the engine was overheating chronicly, and better yet, the Finns fixed it.  Seems there was a simple design flaw that was easily fixed by changing some pipes around.

Sisu

[LLv34_Camouflage]

Here's some info one the BW, taken from  http://www.saunalahti.fi/~ambush/faf/brewster.html .


General information:

Manufacturer: Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, USA
Type: Fighter  
Nicknames: Taivaan helmi (Pearl of the Sky), Ryysteri, Pylly-Waltteri (Butt-Walther)
Function: fighter
Seats: 1
First flight: Dec 2nd, 1937
On service at FAF: 1940–48
Number: 44* (see table below)


Dimensions:

Wing span: 10,67 m
Length: 8,03 m
Height: 3,66 m
Wing area: 19,4 mē  
Empty weight: 2020 kg
Takeoff weight: 2415 kg


Propulsion:

Number of engines: 1
Engine: Wright Cyclone R-1820-G5, (M-62 & M-63 experiments)
Power (per engine): 950 hp


Performance:
 
Max speed at sea level: 430 km/h
Max operating speed: 478 km/h  (4750 m)
Ceiling: 9900 m
Max rate of climb: to 3000 meters 4 mins 12 secs, to 5000 meters 7 mins 10 secs
Flight duration: 4 h
Range: ? km


Armament:  
Machine guns: 4 7,62 mm + 3 • 12,7 mm Colt  or 12,7 mm LKK 42 + 3 • 12,7 mm Colt
Bombs: 0 kg

Finnish Brewster experiment: VL Humu  http://www.saunalahti.fi/~ambush/faf/humu.html

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A finnish aviation museum has a good page of the BW dashboard:  http://www.jiop.fi/ksimuseo/faqlabels.html

FAF Brewster FAQ - excellent:  http://www.danford.net/faf.htm


Camo

[JG5_Jerry]

Lol - thanks for posting this Camo - now I can rest...

[leonid]

Hehe, Nattulv was right  

[fats]

Sorrow,

actually the rear fuselage is very roomy ( hmm is that a word? ). If I have the time and sudden burst of energy I could scan few pictures of the interrior... but I guess any Finn has the same pics though.


//fats

[LLv34_Camouflage]

 

Originally posted by fats:
actually the rear fuselage is very roomy

Yep, two men could sit in there, facing behind, their backs against the pilot armor. With some extra luggage and a dog too, if needed.  

Camo

[JG5_Jerry]

The model is right. I think the perspective is making seem a little shorter, if at all. Trust me, I took a long time getting it right  

[Chain]

WOW...that model looks great!!! Nice job Jerry   Have you done any other planes ?

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Aki Holopainen
      aki.holopainen@quicknet.inet.fi      
VLeLv FennoManiacs

[Staga]

Nice stripes in rudder  

[JG5_Jerry]

Chain -

Most of my stuff is at Hyperscale: http://www.hyperscale.com/features/bf109f4jb_1.htm  http://www.hyperscale.com/gallery/fw190a4jb_1.htm  http://www.hyperscale.com/gallery/bf109e4jb_1.htm

Camo has a Finnish 109G-2 that I did for him awhile back. You can see it and one of my 109G6s by looking at this thread (and scrolling down a bit):
 http://www.dogfighter.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000067.html

And a Fw190A-3 here:
 http://www.dogfighter.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000087.html

One day I'll catch up on some sleep - just as soon as I finish my Bf110...  

[Stiglr]

If you haven't read it, try and find "Double Fighter Knight" by Juutilainen. It's a nice book on the Winter War and WWII era. Makes one pine for not only the Brewster Buffalo, but the I-16 too....