RVs spotted in Finland

There is a gentleman living in Santa Claus Lapland who likes airplanes and knows what's going on in Suomi Aviation. Of course, Larry, he is one of those Russians you like

Anyway, an event took place here




Aerial picture of the place



There were more than 150 airplanes and there were several RVs



Not too many but man aren't they beautiful















If somebody feels comfortable with foreign language, there is the thread
http://www.reaa.ru/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1247439298/0
For you glider guys there is a fascinating machine on page 2....

Pretty

That polished and green -8 may be the prettiest RV I've seen. Nice!

I wish I would have known

I was only about a 1 hour drive away while visiting friends and relatived in Finland during the event. I only wish I would have known there was an RV event in Finland.

Christer

Avionics Tech, A&P
RV-4 partial build
1947 Cessna 120
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jimx1169 said:

That polished and green -8 may be the prettiest RV I've seen. Nice!

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Thank you for your comment.
The idea of polished plain/wing came from theory we pilots have been teached about lift of wing= underpressure/suction on upper side.
We din't like the idea to hang on filler or paint.

Matti

Welcome to The Club!

Hi Matti and welcome!
What a beautiful machine you have! Please contact BruceS http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=45415&highlight=coffee+table+book , your airplane will be a great addition to his book.

I will be passing your area heading for a 2011 Russian Fly In which will take place nr Moscow. Would be glad to meet and talk to you.

Christer said:

I only wish I would have known there was an RV event in Finland.

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In fact it wasn't RV specific event but general fly-in. For more information look at www.jamiflyin.com -- The fly in has been arranged second weekend of the July every year for quite long time. This year at least 149 planes visited the event, which was a record so far.

There are quality pictures from the event at Finnish forum http://www.flightforum.fi/forum/index.php/topic,88650.0.html. In one of the OH-XRV pictures the builders are on board.