Finnish Golden Oldies

[NordicAirpower]

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

[Harlequin67]

A lovely set of photographs from an AF that sources it's aircraft from some unusual places!

[barkin mad]

A fantastic set, but the Magister & silver Draken are the highlights for me



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[Maisie]

IL-28 and Mil-4 are something else!! Any idea when the first photo was taken though?

Thanks!!

[Westy]

Great post - particularly like the SK-35 & Magister

[Arthur Tee]

Quality shots - and difficult to tell which one's are superb old shots and which one's are poorer modern shots!

Thanks for posting!

Arthur

[warferry]

Thanks for loading these. A Gnat with guns, what it was really meant for !

[Niallxg]

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.

[psquiddy]

Super duper

[ciaranchef]

Oh my goodness what a wonderful set, look at the Me 109s , fantastic! superb post!

[st24]

What a phenomenal collection of images!! Loving the camo Mongol personally and the looping Maggie....

[JJC]

For want of a better expression....B-E-A-U-tiful!

[TheDuck]

The Blenheim in that paint scheme looks so right. Incredible collection of pictures.

[G-CVIX]

Wow!!!!!

[Bruno G]

[DeanW]

It's been a while since I've seen such a varied and dynamic set of images!

[shaggie]

oh my ,what a lovely interesting set of images

[NordicAirpower]

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

[soundbarrier]

Amazing overview, thanks for posting !!!

[Cudworth]

Superb shots, thanks for posting.

[colper]

An absolute joy looking at these,fantastic images of a very varied selection of types.

Colin

[CJS]

That Blenheim is wonderful to see! Great photos

[swingy]

Great post.