[Nadia]

I've been flying the Brewster Buffalo since I was 3 or 4, in a huge four people
swing with twice as much rope or chains then the commercial ones, and seemingly anchored in China.
I just put this card in me pocket and went up dogfighting my
neighbors with similar cards. Parachuting was daring and involve hitting the
lawn, bruise and scratches were common, especially when it was missed.




This is a collection of 147 planes from which I got 32, probably issued during the late 40' (*), was collected by my older brother,
who gave them to me to play with, when I was about two year old.
The UN was the big thing back then, and got involved with forces fresh from WWII into most of the conflicts of the time, including Korea.
Oddly, they didn't use any of THESE planes, and there's no jet to be seen (most secret subject I guess...).
And many of the odd planes that I though were fakes, turn out to be real forgotten birds... Here is the list:
[Buffalo,Saro London and Lerwick, Albacore, Havard, Proctor,Flamingo,Roc,F5F Skyrocket,Seagull,Whirlwind,J2F,Mosquito,Mars,ZKB-26,Albatross,
GST,Digby(Bolo),PBS-1,Hertfordshire,WacoGlider,Amoit370,C-54,Chato,Dragonfly,Bermuda,Yak4,Commando,O-47,Caudron(690-710-711-712) unretract-spats ),Constellation]

Now you know why I bought Il-2 FB in 2004, and can bet what was the first plane I used. I flew "captured" Brewster's for the Russians
against the German invasion of Crimea, then got historical flying eurofins2005 16 x 60 dogfight over the gulf of Finland. Each plane
(16 Brewster's, 30 I-16's and 30 Hurricane's) I fitted with it's own unique skin; that got my my computer to crash quite some times
when I was trying to save a big track. I had a 3 ghz hyper-thread monster back then, that use to overeat.
My best score turn out to be 42 kills in a single mission, in a successfully saved game 32 kills, and more recently with limited ammo
about 11 kills, by using only two mguns at a time !

* cards are from year 1940.