Tour of the Finnish Aviation Museum 

Hey all, I hope you enjoiy this video. This is obviously a completely new type of content and I have to learn a lot of new things. Filming at the museum has given me some ideas for the future, what to do and especially what not to do when filming real life segments. Currently, I am still somewhat limted with my equipment. This is especially obvious from the audio (I added subtitles). However, with the support many of you give me over Patreon, I will be able to invest in a better camera and a dedicated mic soon. This is going to boost the quality significantly. If you want to help out, check out my Patreon. I hope you enjoy and if you have any feedback, send it my way ;)

Thanks for clearing up the whole finnish swastika myth. I was hoping for some Fokker aircraft.. but i guess today wasnt the day.

I hope you can visit the Finnish Air Force Museum at Tikkakoski, Jyväskylä, which has in my opinion a more interesting collection. For example, it has the only surviving VL Pyörremyrsky (Hurricane), which was a Finnish copy of the Bf 109, sitting next to an actual Bf 109 G-6.

Great video! My grandmothers uncle Viktor Pyötsia was ww2 fighter ace with 19 and half confirmed kills. He flew with Fokker D.XXI and bf109.

Fun fact: Sirkku sugar cubes are still sold by basically the same company in Finland so I guess that the sponsoring campaign was a great success!

All women melt in his presence. The men writhe in envy and become erect at his beauty. He is Bismarck, the greatest RU-vidr of this generation.

Unexpected face reveal is unexpected.

You should've also visited the Tikkakoski aviation museum in central Finland. There's some very cool and unique pieces too. (maybe even more than in the Helsinki museum)

oh yes the Fokker D.XXI mandatory instalike for a Dutchman like me :D

I went to the museum last summer. I loved it. Especially the interesting story how the finish air service got so many planes from so many nations. It's great and I recommend anyone to go there.

That face reveal tho :O , nice to finally connect the voice to a face, cheers mate o7

Suomi finland perkele

perkele, why do all the german historians have such beautiful stubbles?

Thanks for these videos from your trip to Finland. It was fun to learn about a part of aviation history I hadn't known about before. I'm looking forward to the next installments.

LOVE this stuff. :D Great change of style, still very well researched and wonderfully informative. Keep it up! :D

Great video, thanks Bis!!!

Good job, and especially considering the primitive equipment. Nice to see the body behind the voice. You are a natural at on screen presenting. A guilty pleasure of mine is learning about esoteric airplanes. Finland appears to me to be the little country that could and can.

Totally incredible video and the way you explained different thing's on this was great ....Amazing to see all these different ww2 plane's and the information on these are interesting to me and to see how wood the mounts and the machine guns too..you did an amazing job on this video too..I do greatly appreciate your videos too..Thank you so much

Lindybeige goes to a Tank musuem and Bismarck goes to a aviation museum? All my favorite youtubers are having their dreams come true!

I never knew the story behind the symbol on the aircraft. Excellent bit of pub quiz trivia. Thanks for the upload Bismark. Great content as ever.

Fantastic video, +Bismarck! Keep up the great work! :)

Hi Bismarck, Good to see You life - in my case for the first time. Great video. Danke aus Hamburg.

Very well done,please extend coverage of other Finnish air force aircraft in the museum in the future,thank you.

That's pretty awesome! I would love to visit

A very interesting and intriguing portrayal of the part of Finland's aviation..Thanks a lot.

Brilliant video! Very interesting stuff.

Thanks for the tour, really cool museum. Hope to make it to Finland one of these days. :)

Good video. There is also Tikkakosken ilmailumuseo. There is quite good amount of warplanes. But maybe it is too far from Helsinki 290 kilometers...

What? No monocle, heavily starched uniform or swagger stick? Man, you look nothing like I imagined. Ah well... Keep up the interesting content and good work. =)

Amazing Bismarck! This new content suits you well and i love it. Similar ti MHV and Jingles you are good at talking to the camera. Hope to see more!! P.S. consider visiting the Norwegian Air Museum collection at Gardmoen.

Yay, I'm from Finland and I'm happy to see this vid

Visit Aviation Museum in Cracov Poland quite a lot of unique airplanes from WW1 and interwar period.

Awesome! Good job!

Hey Bismarck, looking good ;)

I love that Christoph Waltz is guest hosting your channel today!!

On the topic of swastika in the Finnish Air Force. Yes is is true that after the end of the Lappland War in April 1945 (a war forced by Soviet Union to expel the German for Finland after the end of the Continuation war) the FAF adopted the the current roundel. However in 1958 the swatika returned to the Finnish Air Force for the unit flags like Karelia, Satakunta and Häme Air Commands (Häme Air Command was relocated and re-named Lappland Air Command in 1974 but kept the original flag). Also Finnish Training Wing (Lentosotakoulu), witch was disbanted in 2014, Air Force Academy (Ilmasotakoulu) and several other units got flags with swastika. All of the flags are currently in use and feature a black swastika not blue. Nice video by the way !

Wtf you're not the Iron Chancellor who unified Germany you're some random white guy

As you're in Scandinavia, you should visit Flygvapenmuseum in Linköping, Sweden. It's a great museum concentrated on the swedish air force.

Somebody get that tour guide a cup of coffee.

nice tour

Second that! I was there this spring and it is a really nice museum if you are an airplane geek (like me). You get really close to the exibits...

Awesome video, if you visit finland again, you should really visit the aviation museum in tikkakoski, they have old jets used by the finns like saab drakens, vampires, mig 15's and even an il28. Its located like 250km away from helsinki.

That was different but also really nice. I like it.

great video

Great Video! Iron cross for both!

Välkommen till Finland! Ja i have not myself been to the museum but should go someday.

perkele! might i suggest also visiting the finnish air force museum in Jyväskylä... they have some cool planes there such as the VL Pyörremyrsky prototype...

Who knew but makes sense. Thanks.

Really cool museum

There used to be a Bf109K on outdoor exhibit in Finland. I had this extensive 109 book written by a German Author in the 60s whose name I can not remember the name of at this moment. There was a picture of the Finnish Bf109 in that book. Somebody borrowed the book and I never got it back. I think it had the Finnish Swastika and at least the Galland hood a tall tail wheel. This swastika - the Finnish version also exists in Japan as a ancient symbol. Not political. UPDATE: This is the book: Heinz J. Nowarra The Messerschmitt 109 - A Famous German Fighter

Thanks for the explanation on the Finnish Swastika, never new why Finland used this insinia.

That Pyry trainer shows some influence of the Fokker D-21 design...

Its biz! Good video.

10+ points to Bismarck... You should also visit Tikkakoski Finnish Airforce Museum airforcemuseum.fi/

I was there years ago. Seems like the planes are still standing where I left them haha :)

I need that cockpit canopy that was behind you in the last 5 minutes. love that salmon pants lol.

Your voice is so soothing..

Woah...there is a face behind the voice...great vid Bis

It's been a month already, but if you happen upon Finland again, I'd recommend visiting the tank museum in Parola as well.

I can recommend that place. I've been there multiple times.

Thats lit af Finnish Aviation Museum :^))

Oh, doing aircraft museums. Well, I'm guessing Flygvapenmuseum in Linköping Sweden is on your list of places to visit, or at least i hope:)

dank museum, you should go to salpa line aswell, i live right next to salpa line museum and there is t-34 3 km from our house

There is actually one flying DC-3 in Finland. When FAF used DC-3, one of the them was loaned for famous film "Eagle has landed". There is also other parts in film that has been made in Finland.

There is an another DC-3 in Finland that still actively participates in airshows. Usually as a ground exhibit, but it comes and leaves with her own power.

also they have a flying dc-3 in helsinki , at an original 1930s airfield at helsinki-malmi.

finland also happened to invite the german troops to stand against the soviets. great friendship at first, involved a great deal of fishing and skiing, until the soviets actually showed up, at which point the german troops got the order to flee and burn down the place on their way out. a distant relative of mine got caught in the process, finland kept him for the remaining war, which was the best thing ever happend to him, because everyone else went to stalingrad none of which ever returned. finland not only saved, but more importantly changed his approach on live considerably for the better. so a late sorry and big thank you from a german, finding and reading a bunch of old letters in a birch wood can, handmade in a prison camp, written by a guy long dead by now (natural course), he never met!

Did you visit the Military Aviation museum at Tikkakoski? They are obviously focused on military aviation and have a lot interesting planes that Finland has used from many countries. I highly recommend it! Personally it's a more interesting collection because of the focus on military hardware.

Whaaaaaaa!?!?! Not at all what I thought Biz looked like!

@Military Aviation History - Please do a segment on Winkle Brown. Thank you (your takes are unique and important).

Very nice video, I look forward to more on-location Bismarcking! What typeface are you using?

I never thought You would look like that haha ^^ I expected Otto von Bismarck xD

You should visit another aviation museum here in finland in tikkakoski and a tank museum near hämeenlinna

Superior video thanks for posting.The sound I am cert-en will improve.

I didn't see if anyone pointed it out yet but the Finnish Airforce swastika and the swastika of the Third Reich are inherently in connection to each other even if by a different context. Count Eric von Rosen whom's personal sign of "good luck" the blue swastika was was in fact the same man that gifted Finland Thulin typ D (Morane-Saulnier 'Parasol') whom Göring (who some of you may know was WW1 ace, flying in Jasta 1) later came acquainted with during his time in Sweden, both being aeronautical enthusiasts and via events you may read up on yourself if you so please. As far as I understand, Göring took the idea of this symbol back to Germany with him and eventually through twists and tumbles became the insignia of the Third Reich.

you should go to Write Patterson air force base and the Smithsonian museum in Washington.

You should come to america and check out the National museum of the United states Air Force in dayton Ohio. That have some pretty big hangers with one's dedicated to WW1 and WW2, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Cold war, and model day. They also added a Experimental aircraft hangar full of x-planes and the presidential aircraft. I heard in that in 2018 they will be adding a strategic bombing section with the B-17 "Memphis Belle". I would really recommend you coming to see it. It is if not, one of the biggest aviation museum in the world. Another cool museum would be the Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola Florida which is home to the Navy's aerobatic stunt team, the Blue Angels. Down there they have I believe three separate hangers stuffed full of naval aircraft from ww1 to the modern day. I would really hope that you get to see these museums some day.

The aircraft look nice, taking into account the climate, geography and topography of Finnland with its own special requirements it would be good to know more about their aircraft industry, particularly the manufacture of engines.

It would have been nice to hear from VL Myrsky ( soon to be restored ) and VL Pyörremyrsky, but the prototype is a different museum in Tikkakoski :/ Keep up the good work !

Finland also used FIAT G-50 fighters au.pinterest.com/pin/158822324329703407/ And the Macchi M.49 fighter perttime.deviantart.com/art/Macchi-M-49-fighter-Finnish-Air-Force-556945119

You look like you should be on the history channel. I could see you hosting some of the WWII history shows.

there is another awesome aviation museum in Tikkakoski

i was in the airforce and in my military oath march in february of 2020 they carried that swastika flag at the front, too bad many foreigners dont know the story and jump to conclusions, its still heavily used in asia too. in vietnam my friend even saw a swastika lock lol.

I think I have actually been here :P

Ah damn, we should've met while you were here visiting.

Maybe if youre that far, you could visit some museums in Baltic states also. Drive around Kurland pocket front and there are plenty of WW2 and overall history related things to see there. Its also really German friendly so maybe you should check that out! Gruß!

*Just imagine the expectations of the Finnish fighter pilots when the first ME 109s arrived in Finland in 1943*

ah, the one which was supported by the sugar company...It was called the Tuisku - that is the name of my cousin :)

I imagined you would look more like Herr Otto Flick from " 'Allo 'Allo! "

visit the finnish airforce museum for more indigenous designs.

Today I learned Bismark is just Sidestrafe with a very convincing German accent. xD Seriously speaking though cool video, audio could have been a bit better but I doubt there was much that could help the wind and the metal building.

I've seen your face... One of those things one can't unsee even if he wished to do so.... My life has been marked forever....I'll never be able to recover from this XD Oh, god..... (sobs)

Holy shit you look nothing like you sound there Biz :D HaHa great videos btw some more would be awesome!!

we have been there- have you visited the museum near the Helsinki airport.

one he is standing in front of has the postwar roundel.

Hitler's probably going to get a copyright strike..

Damn dude I'm Finnish. Hope you enjoyed visiting our freezing nation.

Talk about the Differences of the Radial engine Designs vs Inline Engine Designs and their advantages and disadvantages to both. the 2 most powerful airforces of ww2 (Royal Airforce and the US Airforce) typically favored 1 design and not the other. The US typically favored Radial Engines. (With the exception of the Mustang) B-17 Flying fortress, B-29 Super Fortress, B-25 Mitchell, B-24 Liberator, F4U Corsair, F6F Hellcat, P47 Thunderbolt etc etc While the UK typically favored Inline Engines. Wellington, Lancaster, Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, Hawker Typhoon, Mosquito ect ect. Me personally I like the Radial engines more, they just look meaner and bigger.

New video you should do. F6f vs [insert model zero that the f6f fought] explaining advancements in tactics and technology how the us navy over came what was the best plane of the Pacific @Bismarck

Finally, we see the man behind the voice.