Me109 G-2 flown by Finnish ace "illu" Juutilainen

Sapper-FIN · Post by **Sapper-FIN** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 12:54 pm

Finnish Ace Ilmari "Illu" Juutilainen scored 94 1/6 kills against the Russians, making him the top scoring Finnish Ace of WW2. He became one of only two Finnish aviators to be decorated with the Mannerheim Cross twice.

During his 437 combat missions, Juutilainen scored victories against 22 different types of Soviet, British, and American built aircraft flown by the Russians; more remarkably, his aircraft was never hit by enemy aircraft fire.

During World War 2, Finnish pilots destroyed 1,808 Russian aircraft in aerial combat and achieved an overall 7.5:1 "kill" ratio, all while never operating more than 150 fighters at one time.

:FI:Falcon · Post by **:FI:Falcon** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:02 pm

This is great Sapper!

Very good mottling and color accuracy!

Good details in fuselage/engine/top wing.

It's been over a year since I studied the 109

but you may need some more definition/detail in the tail and ailerons?

And it's missing harps, leprechauns and little gold birds!

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Sapper-FIN · Post by **Sapper-FIN** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 5:17 pm

but you may need some more definition/detail in the tail and ailerons?

Now that you mentioned it... It does need some more details

Thx Falc!