Re: Brewster Buffalo News

On Apr 6, 1:08 pm, John <jdupre5...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I see in Classic Wings and at the Annals of the Brewster
Buffalo,http://www.warbirdforum.com/buff.htm,
that the Museum of Naval
> Aviation has transferred the Brewster 239 BW-372 to the Finnish Air
> Force Museum at Tikkakoski for a 5 year period.  The Finns will finish
> cleaning and preserving the aircraft and then complete the assembly of
> the dismantled relic and return it to the condition it was in when
> recovered from Russian Karelia about 1996.  The transfer is in honor
> of the 90th anniversary of the Finnish Air Force.  There is a
link,http://www.pienoismallit.net/galleria/referenssi_3090/
, to a Finnish
> modeling site that has some really fantastic pictures of this the only
> surviving Brewster 239 and one of only two surviving Brewster
> aircraft.
>
> The aircraft is remarkably well preserved.  I know the current trend
> in restoration is to preserve aircraft as found but I think it is a
> shame that the Brewster could not be fully restored to a  condition
> more representative of its service life.  I would however not repair
> the bullet and shell holes that downed the aircraft.
>
> John Dupre'

Nice gesture. They have the Humu in full colors, so it would be nice
to just straighten the panels on BW-372, and preserve the paint
better, but that would be OK for me. Maybe someday I'll see her.