Viima VI-1

Rain and strong winds headed from the south-west, and this storm lasted all day.

We went to Citymarket in the evening to buy some food supplies and because weather was quite terrible, a walk with camera was no option. Nearby is a memorial to a late local airplane factory, so we drove there to take a photo. (Hubby and Peeetu had already gotten wet in the woods in the afternoon)

In a glass case there is Viima VI-1 airplane prototype. It's maiden flight was done January 1936. Viima is a two-seat, biplane trainer used by the Finnish Air Force  to the early 1960s. After military service, several were released into civil use. This prototype aircraft in question was decommissioned in July 1952

Insignia of the Finnish Air Force: Swedish count Eric von Rosen gave the Finnish government its second aircraft in 1918, a Thulin Typ D. Von Rosen had painted his personal good-luck charm on the Thulin Type D aircraft. This logo – a blue swastika, the ancient symbol of the sun and of good luck, which was back then still used with non-political connotations – gave rise to the insignia of the Finnish Air Force. The white circular background originated when the Finns painted over the advertisement from the Thulin air academy. The swastika was officially taken into use after an order by Commander-in-Chief C. G. E. Mannerheim on 18 March 1918. The FAF changed its aircraft insignia, which resembled the swastika of the Third Reich, after 1944 due to an Allied Control Commission decree, which prohibited fascist organizations.




+7,9°C, rainy and windy