23.05.2009, 09:31
Maybe here you can find some answer:
http://www.ww2wings.com/wings/finland/finlandmain.shtml
as they say:
"The consensus is that the Finns were vastly superior pilots compared to the Soviets particularly in air-to-air combat situations. This was due in no small measure to the fact that the training of FAF pilots focused on air-to-air combat. Historians credit Finnish innovations in loose formation flying, aerial acrobatics skills and improved combat tactics for their enormous successes. The FAF fighter pilots consistently used the element of surprise as a major weapon."
So it seems that Russian planes never could definitively penetrate finnish air space!
Also interesting:
http://www.sci.fi/~ambush/faf/faf.html
...
and surely other sites I don't know...
http://www.ww2wings.com/wings/finland/finlandmain.shtml
as they say:
"The consensus is that the Finns were vastly superior pilots compared to the Soviets particularly in air-to-air combat situations. This was due in no small measure to the fact that the training of FAF pilots focused on air-to-air combat. Historians credit Finnish innovations in loose formation flying, aerial acrobatics skills and improved combat tactics for their enormous successes. The FAF fighter pilots consistently used the element of surprise as a major weapon."
So it seems that Russian planes never could definitively penetrate finnish air space!
Also interesting:
http://www.sci.fi/~ambush/faf/faf.html
...
and surely other sites I don't know...