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Aviation History
1962
1962 - 1279.PDF
IGHT International, 26 July P. '.^^:>»< «^sP^sl*? Sun g/inting on cockpit and wing, one of the 21 Sqn Folland Gnats taxies out STINGERS OF THE NORTH A Visit to the Gnats of the Finnish Air Force OST readers of this journal probably con jure up scenes very different from those reproduced here when they contemplate the everyday functions of a military airfield. But the Hame Wing of the Finnish Air Force is set amidst sugar-icing snow and glaucous conifers, beneath a crystal-clear azure sky. Their base is a few miles north of Jyvaskyla, in the vast complex of lakes some 150 miles north of Helsinki. From the approach road the scenery is such that thoughts of flying hardware are banished, and replaced by the emotions evoked by the music of Sibelius. Suddenly, however, an aeroplane —a very famous type of aero plane—is seen among the silver birches and spruces that stretch Capt Kauko Sipponen, the squadron's com manding officer Testing for radio-activity after a sortie
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