lauantai 22. marraskuuta 2014

Victories with the Curtiss Hawk 75

 Below are all the Finnish aces who have won victories with the Curtiss Hawk 75


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NameVictories with
Curtiss
Hawk 75
Victories total
Kalevi Tervo15.523
Kyösti Karhila1332
Eino Koskinen11.512.5
Yrjö Pallasvuo913
Jaakko Hillo88
Aulis Bremer88
Väinö Virtanen77
Niilo Erkinheimo6.510.5
Kullervo Lahtela610.5
Pentti Nurminen66
Aimo Gerdt66
Pauli Salminen5.56
Aaro Kiljunen5.55.5
Mauno Kirjonen510
Sakari Alapuro55
Arvo Koskelainen55
Paavo Berg4.59.5
Lauri Jutila47.5
Olavi Ehrnrooth25
Mauno Fräntilä1.55.5
Veikko Evinen1.55
136

                                                  LeLv 36  / Hävittäjä- Lento-laivue 36

Kari Tervo

                                                                      Kyösti Karhila 

                                                                     Eino Koskinen


                                                                     Yrjö Pallasvuo
                                             
                                                                           Jaakko Hillo

                                                                Aulis Bremer

Väinö Virtanen

                                                             Niilo Erkinheimo

                                                            Kullervo Lahtela

                                                                    Pentti Nurminen

                                                                 Aimo Gerdt

                                                                 Pauli Salminen

                                                                 Aaro Kiljunen

                                                                Mauno Kirjonen

                                                                Sakari Alapuro

                                                                  Paavo Berg

                                                                 Arvo Koskelainen

                                                                     Olavi Ehrnrooth

                                                               Mauno Fräntilä

                                                                      Veikko Evinen


perjantai 14. marraskuuta 2014

Victories with the Morane-Saulnier

Below are all the Finnish aces who have won victories with the Morane-Saulnier MS.406

                                                                                  
NameVictories with
Morane-Saulnier
MS 406
Victories total
Urho Lehtovaara1544.5
Martti Inehmo88
Antti Tani721.5
Martti Kalima6.510.5
Toivo Tomminen6.56.5
Aarre Linnamaa66
Lars Hattinen6
Pauli Massinen55
Hemmo Leino311
Veikko Karu210
Jouko Myllymäki25
Paavo Myllylä1.521
Aaro Nuorala1.514.5
70
Hattinen + 3 with Mörkö-Morane aircraft.




Urho Lehtovaara 

                                                                      Martti Inehmo 
                                                                       Antti Tani 

                                                              Martti Kalima

                                                            Toivo Tomminen

                                                                    Aarre Linnamaa 

                                                                Lars Hattinen

                                                                    Pauli  Massinen

                                                                      Hemmo Leino

                                                                Veikko Karu

                                                                  Jouko Myllymäki

                                                                     Paavo  Myllylä

                                                              Aaro Nuorala

France sent 30 Morane-Saulnier to Finland, between 4 and 29 February 1940.
By 1943 the Finns had received an additional 46 M.S.406s and 11 M.S.410s purchased from the Germans. By this point, the fighters were hopelessly outdated, but the Finns were so desperate for serviceable aircraft that they decided to start a modification program to bring all of their examples to a new standard.

The aircraft designer Aarne Lakomaa turned the obsolete "M-S" into a first rate fighter, the Mörkö-Morane (Finnish for Bogey or Ogre Morane), sometimes referred to as the "LaGG-Morane". Powered by captured Klimov M-105P engines (a licensed version of the HS 12Y) of 820.3 kW (1,100 hp) with a fully adjustable propeller, the airframe required some local strengthening and also gained a new and more aerodynamic engine cowling. These changes boosted the speed to 525 kilometres per hour (326 mph). 

Other changes included a new oil cooler taken from the Bf 109, the use of four belt-fed guns like the M.S.410, and the excellent 20 mm (0.787 in) MG 151/20 cannon in the engine mounting. However, supplies of the MG 151 were limited, and several received captured 12.7 mm (0.500 in) Berezin UBS guns instead.
The first example of the modified fighter, MS-631, made its first flight on 25 January 1943, and the results were startling: the aircraft was 64 kilometres per hour (40 mph) faster than the original French version, and the service ceiling was increased from 10,000–12,000 metres (33,000–39,000 ft).

Originally, it was planned to convert all the 41 remaining M.S.406s and M.S.410s with the Soviet engine, but it took time, and the first front-line aircraft of this type did not reach LeLv 28 until July/August 1944.
By the end of the Continuation War in 1944, only three examples had been converted (including the original prototype). Lieutenant Lars Hattinen (an ace with six victories) scored three kills with the Mörkö-Morane, one with each Mörkö-Morane in the squadron. 

More fighters arrived from the factory, though, and the Mörkö-Moranes took part in the Lapland War as reconnaissance and ground attack aircraft. Not all the Mörkö-Morane conversions were completed before March 1945, when the entire re-engining programme was halted.

After the end of the war, the total was brought to 41, which served as advanced trainers with TLeLv 14 until September 1948. In 1952 all remaining Finnish Moranes were scrapped.

maanantai 10. marraskuuta 2014

Victories with the Fiat G.50

Below are all the Finnish aces who have won victories with the Fiat G.50
Fiat G.50 
                 
                   



Name Victories with / total

Oiva Tuominen 23 / 44
Olli Puhakka        13 42
Nils Trontti              6 / 7
Onni Paronen         5.5 / 12.5
Urho Nieminen 4 / 11
Lauri Lautamäki 4 / 5.5
Lasse Aaltonen 3.5 / 12.5
Valio Porvari           3.5 / 7.5
Olavi Ehrnrooth 2 / 5
Klaus Alakoski 1 / 26
Ilmari Joensuu 1 / 5
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                                66.5


                                                                         Tuominen

                                                                     Puhakka

                                                                        Trontti

                                                                          Paronen

                                                               Nieminen

                                                                             Lautamäki

                                                                                  Aaltonen

                                                                           Porvari

                                                                        Ehrnrooth

                                                                          Alakoski
                                                                           Joensuu
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                                                             Luutnantti Lauri Olavi Sihvo 
                                                                3 + 1/2 victory