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12-28-2004, 02:25 PM
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| Only slightly off track - A Finnish Brewster Buffalo has been recovered from a lake in fair condition and will be refurbished. | 
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12-28-2004, 02:41 PM
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#587 | | Master of Ewes
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12-28-2004, 02:45 PM
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Country:  | Me too, the B-239 is one of my favourite planes...Not many of em got shot down so to unearth one in a lake is a real good find.
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12-28-2004, 02:56 PM
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Country: | but why is it all wrecks are found in lakes in norway??
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12-28-2004, 03:03 PM
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Country: | Why would a Finnish plane be in Norway...Its probably southern Finland or one of the eastern block countries...Estonia or something...
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12-28-2004, 03:05 PM
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Country: | at a guess it was shot down over norway.......
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12-28-2004, 03:10 PM
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Country: | Why...Norway is nowhere near Russia really...
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12-28-2004, 03:11 PM
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12-28-2004, 03:12 PM
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Country: | why does it have to be near russia??
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12-28-2004, 03:12 PM
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Country:  | The lakes in Norway are deep, clean and cold. Things stay nicely preserved down in those fjords. | |
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12-28-2004, 03:13 PM
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Country: | It does border Finland. | |
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12-28-2004, 03:14 PM
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| It was found in a lake in the Karelyia region near the Finnish border. The tires made in Finnland were still inflated! The reason they find so many planes there is that cold fresh water (especialy if it's just a little acidic) preserves aircraft the best. In lake Taho a high mountain lake on the borders of Nevada and California a B-25 was found that was in such good condition the skelotins of the pilots were still in their seats after 40 years. | |
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12-28-2004, 03:14 PM
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Country: | Only in a small area, its more Sweden that borders Finland, is it not?
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12-28-2004, 03:16 PM
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Country: | and CC i take it you know that the finnish flew their buffalos in combat with the norwegians over norway??
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12-28-2004, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by cheddar cheese Only in a small area, its more Sweden that borders Finland, is it not? | I think so but part of the Russian/Russian satelite contries (Lithuania?) do to.
I would have to get a map out to know for sure, my knowledge of that area is cursuery and some of the names may have changed recently after the breakup of the USSR. | |
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