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[Panzergranate]

The Fins also received a number of Belgian B-239s, with the more powerful engines, that the Germans had discovered still crated up.

A number of these also saw service with the Luftwaffe as advanced trainers and one was found, and photographed, on an airfield in Luftwaffe markings.

The original Buffaloes may have came with 950 HP engines, but the Fins did increase the performance of the engines, as they did with the Moraine Ms-406, Fokker D-21 and other aircraft in their possesion.

The Fins were already manufacturing Bristol Centaurus engines and manufactiring Blenhiem IV bombers throughout the Continuation War.

The Fins had examples of the more powerful Cyclones in their possesion, from the P-36 A-4, and simply fitting the their own manufactured spare cylinders and pistons was performed.

One problem that the 1,100 HP Cyclone engine was plagued with was oil leaking past the oil rings of the top 3 cylinder pistons and fouling the spark plug when the engine was flown inverted or under negative G. It is documented, on the Annals of the Buffalo website, that the Fins solved this by simply inverting the oil rings on the top 3 pistons on the 1,100 HP engines.

As only the 1,100 HP and 1,200 HP Cyclone engines suffered from this problem, it proved that the Fins had upgraded their engines to a higher power output.

The only difference between the 950 HP, 1,100 HP and 1,200 HP Cyclone engines is the cubic capacity.

[Soviet Ace]

So I checked out that site on the Buffalo, that you provided, and I found several mistakes in it that several of my books, and sites I've looked at contradict.

First off, the R-1820-34 and R-1820-G5 are NO different from one another. If the guy who had written that had bothered to look deeper into the engines, he would have realized, that any plane, engine, whatever that is sent from the US or any other nation to another nation is never designated the same as it originally was. There is no difference between the -34 and -G5 besides designation.

Secondly, these Belgian Buffalo's were never sent to Finland by Germany, and were not "crated up". What they were, was Buffalos that had been sent by the US to Belgium, but before they could get into combat were captured, where only two were recorded as making the trip to France before their collapse under the Nazi Blitzkrieg. The captured Buffalos were then used as either scrap metal, or used as trainers. Some were even sent to Vichy French in the Med.

Third, his report of the Battle between Brewsters, Yaks, Las, and LaGG's is incorrect. The actual dogfight, there were four Buffalos gunned down, not two. Where Three Yak-1s and two LaGG-3s were downed. The La-5s held their own just fine, and all them made it back home.

We've already had a mix up with the Vindicator and Sea Wolf, and I think this is just another mix up.