Finnish Golden Oldies
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Finnish Golden Oldies
Hi all,
Hereby a selection of wonderfull old Finnish stuff, all taken from the book "Ilmavoimat - Scenes from Finnish military aviation history" recently published by Nordic Airpower - check out http://www.nordicairpower.com/page8.html
Here we go, in no particular order (have thrown in a few non-oldies as well, hope it is OK) :
Best regards
Jan Jørgensen / Nordic Airpower
Hereby a selection of wonderfull old Finnish stuff, all taken from the book "Ilmavoimat - Scenes from Finnish military aviation history" recently published by Nordic Airpower - check out http://www.nordicairpower.com/page8.html
Here we go, in no particular order (have thrown in a few non-oldies as well, hope it is OK) :
Best regards
Jan Jørgensen / Nordic Airpower
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A lovely set of photographs from an AF that sources it's aircraft from some unusual places!
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A fantastic set, but the Magister & silver Draken are the highlights for me
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IL-28 and Mil-4 are something else!! Any idea when the first photo was taken though?
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Great post - particularly like the SK-35 & Magister
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Quality shots - and difficult to tell which one's are superb old shots and which one's are poorer modern shots!
Thanks for posting!
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Thanks for posting!
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Thanks for loading these. A Gnat with guns, what it was really meant for !
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Great set of photos - Fouga shot wins hands down for me.
edit - just spent the last 30mins looking through your website, Jan, Wow... excellent images in the gallery.
edit - just spent the last 30mins looking through your website, Jan, Wow... excellent images in the gallery.
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Oh my goodness what a wonderful set, look at the Me 109s , fantastic! superb post!
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What a phenomenal collection of images!! Loving the camo Mongol personally and the looping Maggie....
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For want of a better expression....B-E-A-U-tiful!
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The Blenheim in that paint scheme looks so right. Incredible collection of pictures.
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It's been a while since I've seen such a varied and dynamic set of images!
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oh my ,what a lovely interesting set of images
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Thanks for all your nice words - credit must go to the individual photographers.
Maisie, the first photo was taken at Utti in 1953.
All the best
Jan
Maisie, the first photo was taken at Utti in 1953.
All the best
Jan
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Re: Finnish Golden Oldies
Amazing overview, thanks for posting !!!
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Superb shots, thanks for posting.
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An absolute joy looking at these,fantastic images of a very varied selection of types.
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That Blenheim is wonderful to see! Great photos
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Re: Finnish Golden Oldies
Great post.