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Hello Kari ja Jukka
I agree with Kari in that that usual flight times stated in combat reports of Finnish Bf 109G pilots were 45 - 60mins but during these flights there has been always some combat action because it seems that the Finnish Bf 109 pilots didn't file combat reports if they were not claiming something or if their Bf wasn't damaged. That's different to the practice in Le.Lv. 32 where the Curtiss H75A pilots seems to have filed reports from every contacts with the enemy.
That does not of course invalide Jukka's claim that without need to use the combat and climb power (max. 1310hp) the endurance of Bf 109G-2/-6 was longer.
Ps Kari, haven't seen You lately in Sota-arkisto so Thanks for drawing my attention to the photos for which Ed West had posted the URLs (Thanks a lot also to Ed) on the Ju 88Cs that operatted from Tallinn in early 44. I had wondered why Togo was so unsuccesful in it's fighter direction job, at least that was/is my impression after browsing through a book on the ship, when it operated in Gulf of Finland. That at least some of the Ju 88Cs were without radar explains a lot.
Juha
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