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    The VL Myrsky ("Storm") is a Finnish World War II fighter aircraft originally developed by Valtion lentokonetehdas for the Finnish Air Force. The models...
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  • but the best pilots, like the He 162. CAC Wirraway CAC Boomerang VL Humu VL Myrsky Caudron C.714 Designed as a wooden lightweight fighter to increase...
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    Soviet Polikarpov I-16 and I153 were considered obsolete, the Finnish VL Myrsky was rejected due to its all-wooden construction, and while Japan offered...
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    also to the indigenous Finnish VL Myrsky fighter aircraft. The weapon was also planned to be used on the VL Humu and VL Pyörremyrsky fighter aircraft if...
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    the control off completely. This was a serious problem on the Zero and VL Myrsky. When problems with poor control at high speed were first encountered...
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    Saab 17 Saab 18 Short Sunderland V Seversky P-35 Vickers Wellington IV VL Myrsky – Finnish "emergency fighter" Vultee P-66 Vanguard Model R-1830-65 on...
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    in 1938, Braniff Flight 542 in 1959, or the prototypes for Finland's VL Myrsky fighter aircraft in the early 1940s. Famously, the original Tacoma Narrows...
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  • Petlyakov Pe-3 Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 Curtiss P-40 Warhawk VL Myrsky Tupolev SB Bristol Blenheim Dornier Do 17 Junkers Ju 88 Petlyakov Pe-2...
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    During his time at VL, he participated in the design of VL Myrsky, VL Pyörremyrsky, and VL Pyry. He held the military grade of Captain of Engineering...
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    CW-21 FFVS J 22 Mitsubishi A6M Zero Nakajima Ki-43 North American P-64 VL Myrsky Polikarpov I-16 Vultee P-66 Vanguard Related lists List of aircraft of...
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    PZL M-24 Dromader Super (K-9AA) Sukhoi Su-2 (prototype) Sukhoi Su-12 VL Myrsky (one prototype) Data from Liss. Type: Nine-cylinder single-row supercharged...
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    trapezoidal wings, as well as serving to test these structures for the VL Myrsky. While these new wings did reduce the risk of stalls, they made the aircraft...
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  • 1945 Polikarpov I-16  Soviet Union 0 2 1940 1943 VL Humu  Finland 0 1 1944 1945 VL Myrsky  Finland 0 51 1944 1947 VL Pyörremyrsky  Finland 0 1 1945 1945...
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    Focke-Wulf Ta 152 & Focke-Wulf Ta 154 200 these are unrelated types. VL Myrsky 51 VL Pyry 41 Total 90 6 133 549 62,116 513 6,200 33,405 25 371 96,551 Attack...
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    fighter 1971 Prototype 3 VL Humu Finland 1944 Prototype 1 VL Mörkö-Morane Finland 1943 Retired 41 VL Myrsky Finland 1941 Retired 51 VL Pyörremyrsky Finland...
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  • crashed at Rome Air Depot, New York. Circa 7 May The first prototype of the VL Myrsky (State Aircraft Factory Storm), a low-wing single-seat cantilever monoplane...
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  • Lentokonetehdas) VL D.27 Haukka I, II VL Humu VL Kotka I, II VL Myrsky VL Paarma VL Pyry VL Pyörremyrsky VL Sääski I, II, IIA VL Tuisku I, II VL Viima I, II VL-DDR...
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  • Italy, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Soviet Union, United States VL Myrsky Finland 1943 51 Vought F4U Corsair United States 1942 12,571 United Kingdom...
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    Kurki VL D.27 Haukka II VL Sääski (Mosquito) Koolhoven FK.31 VL E.30 Kotka VL F.30 Paarma Letov Š-218 Smolik VL Tuisku VL Viima VL Pyry VL Myrsky VL Humu...
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  • Eastern Front. VL Sääski I, II, III VL Kotka I, II VL Tuisku I, II VL Viima I, II VL Pyry I, II VL Myrsky I, II, III VL Pyörremyrsky VL Humu Arado Ar 196A-3...
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  • engineering, speed and design, such as the Finnish World War II fighter plane VL Myrsky, Finnish submarine Vetehinen, legendary motorcyclist Jarno “Paroni” Saarinen...
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  • Blackburn Ripon IIs. By the end of the war the unit also received 20 VL Myrsky IIs, 2 Bristol Blenheim Mk.Is, and 2 Polikarpov U-2s. Keskinen, Kalevi;...
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    of 5 Gloster Gladiator IIs, 3 Fokker D.Xs, 4 Westland Lysander Is, 6 VL Myrsky IIs, and an undisclosed number of de Havilland Moths. Lentolaivue 16 v...
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  • 196s, Curtiss P-40M, LaGG-3, Fokker C.Xs, Westland Lysanders, VL Viima IIs, VL Myrsky IIs, Blackburn Ripon IIFs, and Bristol Blenheim Mk.Is. Keskinen...
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