Question to FAF experts

[Juha]

I'm not a FAF expert but
1. I would say the book is a hard nut for those who cannot read Finnish. Text is descriptive.
2. IIRC the book includes all a/c which were total loss and all incidents were someone got killed, so it includes also accident, also training accidents in training schools. It's a 2nd volume of 3 book series, the others handle pre-war and post war accidents. I have the books but I'm still at work, but just stopped earning my salary, and so this is from memory.

HTH
Juha

[kalender1973]

Originally Posted by Juha

I'm not a FAF expert but
1. I would say the book is a hard nut for those who cannot read Finnish. Text is descriptive.
2. IIRC the book includes all a/c which were total loss and all incidents were someone got killed, so it includes also accident, also training accidents in training schools. It's a 2nd volume of 3 book series, the others handle pre-war and post war accidents. I have the books but I'm still at work, but just stopped earning my salary, and so this is from memory.

HTH
Juha

Thanks Juha !

[Stig Jarlevik]

Hi Juha

It actually never cease to amaze me that Finnish authors STILL think that their aviation history is a local Finnish affair, especially WW 2.

Being lucky enough to have a partly Finnish speaking wife , and a general interest in Finnish aviation, I guess I am lucky enough, but being a Swede having parents who took to heart the cause "Finland is OUR cause" during the war it is annoying that it still persists. Also having the honour to have met some vets from the F 19 Wing during the days when it counted I guess I am a bit biased when I say that Finland in history and, to us, especially its aviation history is NOT a local affair!

Luckily some Finnish authors discovered this and we now have quite a few books with, if not a complete translation, at least a partial one into English.

The books you are talking about, HOW does one buy them? An e-mail to a retailer would be nice. If you reconsider your answer given, there seems to me to be an important ommission in these books, especially WW 2, where an aviator could receive damage to his plane but still manage to get back inside his own lines. IF that aeroplane was NOT a total loss (but repaired), it is not in the book? Am I right?

Finally, IF you are in contact with the author, an aviation book of honor regarding Finnish aviators is NOT a local affair, it concerns all of us. You can tell him from me. I have talked to some of the F 19 guys and their night mares. You can pay the ultimate price in more ways than one!!

All the Best
Stig