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Jun
5
2018
Hot Rod of the Winter Sky
Posted by HW on 05 Jun 2018 / 7 Comments


This Week’s Hints to help you along:

  • A brilliant combat design, fast and with fine maneuverability.
  • Wings and fuselage were made of plywood; didn’t fare well in the weather.
  • Powered by the  Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp engine.
  • Killed more of its own pilots than those of the enemy.

So do you know what this aircraft is?

 

 

 

Post a REPLY below with your best guess!

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7 Comments


R. Bailey
8 yearss ago


Description fits the Swedish FFVS J22.

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Jeff Zader
8 yearss ago


VL Myrsky

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    HW
    8 yearss ago


    Correct! It is the Finnish VL Myrsky!

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Peter Twydell
8 yearss ago


Finnish VL Myrsky fighter of World War II.

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John Guzman
8 yearss ago


Just a SWAG: a CA-13 Boomerang. (Can’t believe no answers in 6-months.)

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John Guzman
8 yearss ago


Wow! No tries in 6-momths. I think this is an Australian CA-13 Boomerang.

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Daniel Sturm
7 yearss ago


Its a finnish Myrsky in a photography of 1945 (Blue-white roundel) to 1947 (retirement of the fighter)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VL_Myrsky

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