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I AM NEW TO THIS SITE AND I BUILD 1/5 SCALE RADIO CONROL MODELS AND DOING A FOKKER XXI IN FINNISH MARKINGS.I SEE THESE AIRCRAFT WITH THE BLUE SAWSTICKA ON WHITE BACKGROUND BUT WHEN DID THEY ROATE THE SWASTICKA AS SEEN ON GERMAN AIRCRAFT.
I READ WHERE THEY HAD CHANGED THEIR ORIGINAL MARKINGS AFTER THE GERMANS INVADED FINLAND.
 
The Finns never changed their insignia, sometimes the white was removed but the swastika's was never rotated.

To be honest I can agree with that to a certain extent only. The swastika was used as the notional marking on the finnish aircraft at the 1918-1944 period. Then it was replaced with the white-blue roundel.
 
"... I READ WHERE THEY HAD CHANGED THEIR ORIGINAL MARKINGS AFTER THE GERMANS INVADED FINLAND."


Say WHAT ....? :)

The Germans never "invaded" Finland. Check it out mrscale

MM
 
When the Finns made peace with Russia, the Germans, mostly in Lapland, couldn't exit fast enough to suit the Russians.
The Russians demanded that the Finns expell the Germans with force, thus the Lapland war.
Even though the Finns had used the swastica as their air force's insignia since 1918, before any other nation, in 1944 they decided to distance themselves from anything that could give any appearance of association with the 3rd Reich, so they got rid of the swastica.
 
Sorry for interviening but I think I should set the record a little straighter as to the Finnish Swastika. The symbol has been around itself since ancient times (19th to 20th century in arts) for the Finnish.

Now the Swastika for the air force ( and defence force) was used as a family symbol by Count Von Rosen, he donated to the Finish air force its first plane in 1918 It was adapted as the national symbol of the air force and later the army (along with a host of other organizations) it has nothing to do with the Nazi Swastika, at least before the war it was adopted not out of Nazi ideoligy but for Finnish national pride.

Later after the war, Finland changed the symbol to the Blue roundel.

I hope that clears things up a bit....

P.S. The swastika didn't originate with the Finns, just to make that clear in case someone misunderstands my point :D

and another thing Count Eric Von Rosen, he was a Swedish hon. Doctor, explorer his father was Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen from where his title originated. He adopted the swastika from Gotland, hearing that the Vikings had used it for good luck (so the story goes) he used the symbol during his expedition to Africa in 1901.

He and Goring are brothers in law (Goring marrying Eric's wife's sister :D) they met a good time after Count Von Rosen adopted the swastika.
 
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I do not think that these are Finnish Gladiators. The Finnish ones had standard RAF colours then standard FAF Black/ Green. The Swedish ones had White Green colours. I beleive that the photo is of Latvian aircraft. The Latvian Airforce used a Maroon swastika from the 20's until 1940. Again nothing to do with the Nazis.
Steve
 
In 1936, the Finnish Air Force ordered 18 Blenheim Mk Is from Britain and two years later, they obtained a manufacturing license for the aircraft. Before any aircraft could be manufactured at the Valtion lentokonetehdas (State Airplane Factory) in Finland, the Winter War broke out, forcing the Finns to order more aircraft from the UK. A further 24 British-manufactured Blenheims were ordered during the Winter War. After the Winter War, 55 Blenheims were constructed in Finland, bringing the total number to 97 aircraft (75 Mk Is and 22 Mk IVs).

The Finns also received 20 half-completed ex-Yugoslavian Mk IV Blenheims captured by Germany, together with manufacturing tools and production equipment, as well as a huge variety of spare parts. Yugoslavia had ceased production of the Mk I and commenced a production run of Mk IVs just prior to the April 1941 invasion. The Finnish Blenheims flew 423 missions during the Winter War, and close to 3,000 missions during the Continuation War and Lapland War. Blenheim machine gunners also shot down eight Soviet aircraft. Thirty-seven Blenheims were lost in combat during the wars. After the war, Finland was prohibited from flying bomber aircraft. However, some of the Finnish Blenheims continued in service as target tugs until 1958.

Source: Wikipedia
 

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