Brewster Model 239

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[quote]ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR BREWSTER AND IT'S PILOT

BW-364 was flown to Finland 20.2.1940. Was given to Fsq 24./3 19.4.1940.
Was the personal aircraft of warrant officer Ilmari Juutilainen, who used the 364
until february of 1943. After Juutilainen transferred to the new Fsq 34 equipped with
Me 109G2, BW-364 was given to lieutenant M. Salovaara. After an overhaul at 8.5.44 364 was
assigned to 1/Fsq 26, pilot was lieutenant E. Teromaa. The career of 364 ended at
29.7.44 on Tolvajärvi-Loimola area. Four Brewsters of the Fsq 26 fought against
17 P-40's and P-39´s, and 364 was shot down. The pilot, commander of Fsq 26. major L. Larjo
bailed out, but hit the stabilizer and died to his wounds later at the same day.

BW-364 achieved 36 confirmed kills, of which 33 with Fsq 24. and 3 with Fsq 26.

EINO ILMARI JUUTILAINEN

Born: 21.2.1914 in Lieksa. Died: 21.2.1999 in Tuusula.

Score: 94 and 1/6 kills in 437 sorties.

Warrant officer Juutilainen shot down 28 enemies with BW-364, and he was the highest
scoring Finnish ace with 94 confirmed kills, making him also the world´s highest
scoring non German ace. Juutilainen was awarded the Mannerheim Order Knight Cross
twice. Mannerheim Cross is about equivalent to CMOH or Victory Cross.
No enemy fighter ever scored a single hit into his aircraft!!!

More about the man and his career at:

http://www.hkkk.fi/~yrjola/war/faf/juutilai.html
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/finace01.htm

Double Fighter Knight
By: Ilmari Juutilainen
Publisher: Apali Oy
ISBN: 952-5026-04-3
In english
(www.apali.fi, lots of aviation literature some in english)

VISUAL MODEL

As I state above, I have used a FSFS AFX by Eric C. Johnson, all honours
to him. I have just modified the model to make his F2A-3 more like the
export model 239 (US Navy F2A-1). My original ambition was to make a better
pilot inside the cabin, but after wrestling with all sorts of 3D-rendering
bugs produced by my tampering with FSFS I gave up for now. All remaining
visibility bugs are my making, don't blame Eric C. Johnson for them.

I am eagerly waiting for the new version of Aircraft Factory to finish
the model. Things to do are:

-Better looking canopy and pilot like those in CFS

-Ditto with rotating propeller
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