The Late War Finnish Fighter | VL Pyörremyrsky 

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What it resembles most is the Italian Fiat G.55, for me. Both inherited the 109G's engine and cowling, but behind that is a completely new aircraft.

Few corrections / additions. The research and development of natively produced aircraft had begun way before the late 1930s as seen with the IVL K.1 Kurki (1927, trainer/transport), IVL C.24 (1924, fighter), IVL C.25 (1925, fighter) and IVL D.26 Haukka (1927, fighter) These prototypes would eventually be followed up by a mass-produced military aircraft in the form of the VL Sääski (1928, general aviation/trainer/naval patrol) and the limited production VL Kotka (1930, naval patrol/light bomber) So yeah the development of not just prototype, but even serial production military aircraft had commenced prior to late 1930s. Additional note: the word Pyörremyrsky can be translated into various English words in addition to hurricane, such as typhoon and whirlwind (which both lack their own separate words in the Finnish language). Otherwise, good work and research! Would be cool to see a video about the VL Puuska, a competitor for the VL Pyörremyrsky which never left the drawing board.

It stands in the museum next to a G2. Looks very slick.

Very nice! And good to have shots of the VL Myrsky in the same video for comparison. Both very pretty aircraft.

Mostly a good video but I have one main issue with it. To say that the Finns didn't produce native aircraft until the late 30s and to *imply* that the first native aircraft was the Myrsky is incorrect. The Finns designed and produced several aircraft types for the airforce before this such as the Sääski (first flight 1928), the VL Tuisku (first flight 1934) and the VL Viima (first flight 1936). This was along with one-off prototypes like the VL Haukka fighter (first flight 1927).

I love Finnish fighter aircraft

They should have shocked the world by adding a turret ...The Finnish 109G Defiant ! That would have had everyone face-palming ! LOL

This is a beautiful aircraft ^w^ thank you for making a video about it ^w^

The Finnish AF's first plane was a Thulin D, built in my home town, and gifted to the Finns by count Erik von Rosen. And his personal house mark was a swastika for light and happiness (This was before the nazis) he marked the plane with a blue swastika in a white roundel. A marking the Finnish AF used until after WW2.

Beautiful aircraft, another very informative video.

Your Finnish words pronounced very well. Small tidbit of Finnish air force history. When group of Finns went to pickup British Hurricanes and Blenheims. There was Blackburn Roc naval turreted fighter with Finnish markings. Finns left that behind. There's no photos of it in Finland and never mentioned in any Finnish air force books. Roc's blue swastikas were covered with white hemp fabric when it was flown over British skies. As it was feared getting shot down by itchy fingered AA.

Thank you for the excellent presentation. As a point of interest, the Hansa-Brandeburg W.33 shown in the top left corner at 1:25 belongs to the Latvian Air Force, which i) also operated the W.33 and ii) also sported a swastika (a red diagonal one) as their Air Force insignia in the inter-war years.

Thanks

I think it looks like someone tried to make a Bf-109 from memory after seeing one years ago.

This is what i would like to call the "Orthodox Fighter", due to it's inline engine and emphasis on a mixture of performance, armament and survivability. Such examples including the Macchi MC.202/MC.205 Folgore and Veltro, Reggiane Re.2001/2005 Falco II and Saggitario, Fiat G.55/56 Centauro, and Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien.

Great little video on this beautiful but rare aircraft. The its name - Pyörrenmyrsky - more correctly translates as Whirlwind however.

6:40 This is incorrect. The PM-1 stands for Pyörremyrsky-1. The "PuuMersu" was only a colloqial nickname, but not the official name. Pyörremyrsky is a combound word from the words Pyörre (Twirling) and Myrsky (Storm).

It would have been interesting to see this design re-engined with British engines like the Merlin or Griffon.

Finns are so very sensible and resourceful, so are Swedes, but Finns really inspire me. 😂

The same problem as the swiss had, they always came late with the indigenous planes. (Mainly the improved Morane ms406 eg D3802 )

Pretty isn't she. I'd like to see her fly. Imagine if she'd been available in numbers when intended?. I've often redesigned the hurricane and defiant in my mind and on paper. Westland whirlwind also. I love "what ifs?"👍😁✌️☮️

Pyorremyrsky means whirlwind, not hurricane.

Code PM comes from PyörreMyrsky, not Puu-Mersu as mentioined in video.

Its funny hearing every one try to pronounce this name in War Thunder

There must be some kind of pyörremyrsky in the head of a native English speaker as he/she tries to pronounce Valtion Lentokonetehdas (VL) Pyörremyrsky. 😂

You are doing fine when speaking Finnish, just remember to pronounce strong "R". As far as i understand DB605's power was limited in Finnish use to around 1300hp because engines we received had only cast iron cylinder liners without chrome plating. They wore out very fast if you used all 1450hp. Pyörremysky looks like a great desing to me, Myrsky was a disaster structurally. Wooden structure could not cope with the rain and damp, we did not have good enough glues at the time. I think best Finnish design, conversion was so called Mörkö-Morane. Decade ago i built Mörkö as a giant scale RC model, and it flew really well and it was fast. We should have abandoned the Myrsky project and concentraded building Mörkö's and Pyörremyrsky's. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X1EpO0S1dvk.html

Basically, the Fiat G.55 in finnish sausage.

At end of 1945 speed of 620 km/h was not at all impreessive. Especialy not for a prototype. In west, this speed was matched in 1941.

Looks like a wooden G55

Is this "Tuisku"? We fins do not know "pyöremyrsky" thing. Tuisku is icy snowing with high winds and it eats your face. You cover you face more than very soon. like Thousands icy needles.

..Congratulations for your ability to properly pronounce Finnish names...

It looks like it was never fully completed. Did it ever get "Finnished" ha ha ha

It has much more of the Look of the Macchi or Fiat Fighters of a year before [1943] , in overall profile.

sorry to be that one guy but that pronouciation was differeant to say the least im from finland btw

Finland....fighting with the Nazi 😢