Memorial for veteran ATCs, Brewster model presented to public + moreaviation history

Memorial for veteran ATCs, Brewster model presented to public + more
aviation history

Memorial for veteran ATCs, Brewster model presented to public
Finnish air-traffic controllers built a 1:5 scale model airplane to
honor their veteran colleagues, the air-traffic controllers of the post
World War II generation.

The airplane
modeled was Brewster fighter BW-384 "White seven", the personal airplane
ensign Aarno Siro flew in the last battles of Continuation War against
Soviet Union, during summer 1944. Post-war Aarno Siro was one of the
first air-traffic controllers and worked as such for 22 years.
BW-384 flew its first flight 5.4.1940 and was delivered to LLv 24 6 days
later. During its career BW-384 was flown by for example I. Törrönen, L.
Nissinen, L. Pekuri and Aarno Siro. The total flight time of BW-384 was
729 hours and it was removed from operational use in 1952. The plane is
credited with 18 aerial victories. Its most successful pilot was Lauri
Nissinen with 10 victories in BW-384.


http://www.virtualpilots.fi/hist/

Now also a video of the model and Brewster pilots available:

http://www.virtualpilots.fi/feature/photoreports/bw384/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...87543494&hl=en

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