A Blenheim goes home!
Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:26 pm
For some time, a Finnish Blenheim has been in restoration. Recently, the restoration project was completed, pictures of the final journey here:
inspiring photos (with text in Finnish, translation welcome!) !
http://www.fsnordic.net/discussion/inde ... 3.240.html
and the project official site, thankfully in (descent) English:
http://www.ilmasotakoulunkilta.fi/IlmaS ... ent9993D-2
(Have to go to link, cannot link photos, at least I do not succeed)
Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:29 pm
That looks like a great restoration.
Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:43 pm
I'll try get back to you guys with the translation later this week. My Finnish is a bit rusty but I should be able to this, picture by picture.( I speak the language and can read it with a bit of effort.)
Jim
Barrie, Ontario
Jim
Barrie, Ontario
Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:47 pm
That would be awesome. That is a cool airplane.
Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:49 am
Go the Finn's! great looking restoration of another rare piece. They must have some awesome stuff up there. Is the Brewster raised a few years ago goin back there? I hope so 
Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:23 am
Brewster has been back several months already.
Classic Wings will have a feature on the Blenheim in the next issue.
Dave
Classic Wings will have a feature on the Blenheim in the next issue.
Dave
Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:47 am
wow...love the markings!
Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:24 am
DaveM2 wrote:Brewster has been back several months already.
Classic Wings will have a feature on the Blenheim in the next issue.
Dave
Nice one, look forward to that
Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:24 pm
A magnificent restoration.
It's even rarer than it first appears. I think I'm right in saying it's the only British-built Blenheim left. All the other survivors are Canadian-built Bolingbrokes.
It's even rarer than it first appears. I think I'm right in saying it's the only British-built Blenheim left. All the other survivors are Canadian-built Bolingbrokes.
Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:56 am
dhfan wrote:A magnificent restoration.
It's even rarer than it first appears. I think I'm right in saying it's the only British-built Blenheim left. All the other survivors are Canadian-built Bolingbrokes.
Actually, this one was built in Finland. But yes, it is the only Blenheim left, all the others are Canadian Bolingbrokes.
Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:51 am
Awsome photos! It's always great to see a rare bird preserved. I've got a book that shows (I think) this same aircraft on outdoor display some years ago.
Don't the Finns also have the fuselage (if not the entire airframe) of a Blenhiem I in storage? Awhile back I saw someone's photos of a tour of the Finnish museum storage building, and one pic showed a short-nose Blenhiem.
SN
Don't the Finns also have the fuselage (if not the entire airframe) of a Blenhiem I in storage? Awhile back I saw someone's photos of a tour of the Finnish museum storage building, and one pic showed a short-nose Blenhiem.
SN
Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:34 am
Steve
Yes, it was outdoors as a Memorial from 1960-70. They have the cockpit section of a Mk.1 IIRC.
Dave
Yes, it was outdoors as a Memorial from 1960-70. They have the cockpit section of a Mk.1 IIRC.
Dave
Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:08 am
1st class restoration of a real rarity in aviation history. i never understood the concept of the bashed in plexi look on the nose though????
Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:30 am
The nose was originally symmetrical. I can't remember now whether it was just plain visibility or reflections from the perspex that caused it to be changed. Whatever, they adjusted it downwards 'til it worked.
Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:51 am
.i never understood the concept of the bashed in plexi look on the nose though????
Ground / field view for the pilot when on the ground tail low.