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IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey Famous title comes to consoles. |
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Came across this while reading about the winter war, thought it was quite interesting
![]() http://www.sci.fi/~fta/finace01.htm Edit: It's 3 pages, in case someone didn't notice the link to the following page. Last edited by the_somme; 10-12-2009 at 07:17 PM. |
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an excellent read, thoroughly enjoyed it
![]() to think his 94 victories could be infact many more, but he gave his shared kills up to the younger pilots!! Seems like a fairly calm individual, the kind of guy you would like to fly with. |
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It was so much better than the Fokker that it was in another category. If we had had Brewsters during the Winter War, the Russians would have been unable to fly over Finland. It was also a "gentleman's traveling plane", for it had a roomy cockpit and room in the fuselage, as we used to say, for a poker gang. We unofficially transported mechanics, spare parts, oil canisters etc. in our Brewsters. Once, though two pilots went a little too far - a flight sergeant was flying, and in the fuselage was a second lieutenant, his friend, his dog and a lot of baggage. Upon landing the plane went off the runway and the suitcase came out. Both pilots were punished. Humorously, the lieutenant's sentence started with:"As the commander of the crew of a single-seat fighter.."
absolutely brilliant!!! hahaha, that made me chuckle. |
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Yes that is a very good read! I havent finished yet though.
Question: Is that Brewster the same one that was called the "Buffalo" in the states? I cant believe you could actually get kills with that thing. |
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yup thats the same aircraft
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WOW! I just can't think of anything else to say.
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Yeah, the Brewster kinda sucked if you look at its statistics, but the Finns manage to sweep the skies with them. One Finnish Buffalo even holds the record of the most kills per individual airplane, 40 I believe.
Edit: Now I want a Finnish Buffalo in DLC! Last edited by Swagger7; 10-13-2009 at 02:40 AM. |
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And the only difference between a Finnish Buffalo and an American Buffalo, is I believe the engine? Also I think some of the armaments as well? |
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The buffalo got about quite a bit the dirty little tart haha
finland used them to great sucess against the dirty ruski's ![]() they were outclassed though by the zero. That plane was a beast!!! just very easy to go down if taking hits |
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