SAVE HELSINKI-MALMI AIRPORT !! LW interest.

[David Ransome]

Hi,

Please go to the Fw 190 at Helsinki-Malmi airport thread, read message #8, and click on last link and do your bit to help save yet another piece of our aviation heritage under threat!

With it's obvious Luftwaffe links this site is interesting historically, as well as architecturally. Looking at airfields/airports can help us understand the aircraft that we are interested in, how and where they operated and much, much more! An airfield preserved brings life to aviation history just as some would argue that aircraft were meant to fly rather than sit in museums (before any arguments there are pros and cons for the latter!).

Regards to all,

David

[erkkim]

Originally Posted by David Ransome

Hi,

Please go to the Fw 190 at Helsinki-Malmi airport thread, read message #8, and click on last link and do your bit to help save yet another piece of our aviation heritage under threat!

With it's obvious Luftwaffe links this site is interesting historically, as well as architecturally. Looking at airfields/airports can help us understand the aircraft that we are interested in, how and where they operated and much, much more! An airfield preserved brings life to aviation history just as some would argue that aircraft were meant to fly rather than sit in museums (before any arguments there are pros and cons for the latter!).

Thanks.

And here are more pictures of German planes at Helsinki-Malmi airport during WW2.
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/projects...ta/malalku.htm
Unfortunately the texts are only in Finnish, but I believe that the pictures speak for themselves
To see all pages, click on texts at left side of the cover page.
or the direct links below:
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/projects...a/kentkone.htm
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/projects...a/sotilota.htm
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/projects...a/kentmal2.htm
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/projects...a/malflieg.htm
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/projects...a/malflie2.htm
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/projects...ta/sivkone.htm
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/projects...ta/kensivi.htm

And to remind you. The petition is here
http://pelastamalmi.org/en/petition/index.html

[Joerg Dietsche]

And find attached pictures of Hptm Karlheinz DIETSCHE at MALMI as Detachment Commander.

Wih regards
Zeit

April - 15.05.1944
I./JG 302 Kommando

Karlheinz Dietsche

Hauptmann

Kommando-Führer

1. Luftflotte Reval

[ssipila]

Thanks very much for posting the picture! Do you have any more showing Malmi Airport? This is invaluable historic material!

[erkkim]

Originally Posted by Joerg Dietsche

And find attached pictures of Hptm Karlheinz DIETSCHE at MALMI as Detachment Commander.

Many thanks

Is/was he your relative? (You have same name)

It would be nice to see pictures of wartime Malmi from the archieves of other readers, too

Here are some photos, text and drawings
http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/gdes/FIN/08.htm
http://pelastamalmi.org/en/reading/swamp1.html
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/BWtoFAF4.htm
http://www.saunalahti.fi/fta/BWtoFAF5.htm
http://www.saunalahti.fi/fta/zimbo-03.htm
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/hist/WW2...ilEnglish.html
http://www.grafixnpix.com/wwii/faf2.htm