Tour of the Finnish Aviation Museum

[@MilitaryAviationHistory]

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 ;)

[@bendtfender2894]

Bismarck This was cool.

[@mavrik104]

If Jingles can do it your bound to figure out how to do it better. Its the German efficiency.

[@juusopt9003]

I live 100 km north from Helsinki ,in Lahti.

[@keijo8238]

Bismarck Torilla tavataan

[@matiasmuurinen6946]

Hello bis i have been in that museum and flew a bf109 sim there :)

[@Charlieboterman]

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

[@eetuhannola]

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.

[@cringothebot276]

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

[@raize6166]

#NoHomo

[@cringothebot276]

Jared Young You may be correct my friend

[@Moorbote]

AllDayRevenge Dat Ass :o

[@JiiHooMan]

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)

[@jjtheone1232]

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.

[@JHorsti]

Unexpected face reveal is unexpected.

[@mcglynn20]

I know, right. And MHV did damn near the same thing recently with his video on his time in the Austrian Army.

[@marrioman13]

Emmett C I think it's to finally prove they're not brothers

[@MilitaryHistoryVisualized]

Austria and Germany working together again... Germany is sending envoys to Finland... what could possibly go wrong...

[@MikeLitoris66]

It was kind of weird to finally see the face behind the voice.

[@andreibeleaua792]

Just me noticed the CinemaSins replic?

[@blownaway9187]

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

[@wape1]

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.

[@Pauna2896]

Also the only ''surviving'' Brewster Buffalo

[@Jageby]

And also one of thelast Blenheims

[@vekuboi]

@@Pauna2896 bruh the Pyörremyrsky isnt a copy of the 109, are you on drugs?

[@heikkisallinen9012]

It was not a copy Bf 109, but was build as a Finnish equivalent to match it's performance. It was initiated to lessen Finnish reliance on German frontline fighters. The air frame was a totally different Finnish design. The cockpit layout and most of the instrumentation was from an earlier domestic design, VL Myrsky ( currently under restoration for the same museum ). DB605 engine, the nose-mounted cannon and some cockpit instruments were the only foreign parts also shared with BF 109 Gs. Engines, I think, were to be sourced from Sweden.

[@CaptainGyro]

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.

[@fardiemann]

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.

[@MilitaryAviationHistory]

Thanks Emil. I hope to plan many Air Museums, and I want to return to Norway for another visit, so that is indeed a possibility!

[@edwardtroth8630]

Or Bodø. Never been to Bodø as I live in the south of Norway but i hear that there's some neat stuff up there.

[@mx0mania]

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

[@declaredmilk299]

Suomi finland perkele

[@lipidi1542]

Ois ollut ihan koulu reitin vieressä

[@peterbanderas8184]

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. =)

[@Elias-no9fy]

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

[@Chivaltic]

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 !

[@Robert_Kawalec]

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

[@crstothard]

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

[@jmirsp4z]

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...

[@JamesLaserpimpWalsh]

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.

[@UmbrellaluvsU]

That's pretty awesome! I would love to visit

[@jeffpittel6926]

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

[@kenneth9874]

The swastika was a positive symbol in existence way before the 3rd reich

[@Modi_]

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.

[@josipvrandecic2472]

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

[@meanmanturbo]

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:)

[@damooseman6807]

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

[@zzz-x7p]

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

[@ThroneOfBhaal]

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

[@veskunapietari]

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

[@sethmiller2797]

nice tour

[@mohabatkhanmalak1161]

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.

[@heikkisallinen9012]

I think the only engine Finland produced during WW2 was the Bristol Mercury ( or Tampella Mercury ), fitted to Fokkers and Bristol Blenheims Finland had problems acquiring more modern engines from Germany during the Continuation war : only P&W Twin Wasps from German stocks . Finland used them to it's modernized, late Fokker fighter variants and the domestic VL Myrsky design. . Before Ryti-Ribbentrop pact, Finland sook to source DB605 engines from Sweden, which had a production licence.

[@mikakoskimies36]

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.

[@MilitaryAviationHistory]

I know of the connection between von Rosen and Goering, I believe Goering actually married the sister of von Rosen's wife iirc.Yet, Swastika on a yellow back ground was also used as an 'high voltage' warning in Sweden at the time. Some other air forces also adopted just after WW1, example: Latvia. Companies, like Carlsberg, used it in their logo. Sports teams used it too. The symbol was literally everywhere, mostly used without the 45 degree tilt, and considered completely normal until the mid-1930s. As for the conntection of Goering and the NSDAPs use of the swastika, Hitler had already mentioned the symbol in 'Mein Kampf', nearly ten years before they met. The connection/ influence coming from Sweden is thus mute.

[@max_archer]

It was very popular here in the US, as well. A city near me still has street lamps from the 1920s with Swastikas cast into them.

[@mikakoskimies36]

Yes that is all true and I just researched and indeed you are right. As a quirky sidenote, the presidential standard in Finland still has a yellow swastika over blue a rosacruz known as 'vapaudenristi' (Cross of Freedom or something, unaware of an official english translation. It is also still use in the Finnish Air Force as some units markings event though going for a decade but came back into use in the mid 1950s.

[@terryteed1903]

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

[@smeb4086]

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

[@sthlmstoffe]

Great video, thanks Bis!!!

[@garypashley3636]

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

[@Ethnarches]

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.

[@Marxman-bi5yu]

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.

[@Talon3000]

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

[@granskare]

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

[@deltavee2]

So check into the Clarion Hotel at the airport and the museum is right across the street. Handy! Thanks, Bismarck, for an entertaining video, and the history lesson. Much appreciated. Why is everyone losing their minds over the fact that they can see you? Are you a YT game reviewer or something?

[@heikkisallinen9012]

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 !

[@nedyarbnexus9460]

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.

[@jarmokankaanpaa6528]

At least with Britain, it depended partly on the manufacturer. Bristol, which made its own radial engines, also turned out radial engined aircraft (Blenheim, Beaufort, Beaufighter); Bristol radials were also used in the HP Hampden & Halifax B III, Blackburn Skua & Roc, Fairey Swordfish and Albacore, Gloster Gladiator, Westland Lysander, Hawker Tempest II and the post-war Sea Fury, AW Albemarle, Short Stirling and Sunderland, Vickers Wellington, Supermarine Walrus... Most interwar types also had radial engines. As for the US, other inline fighters included the P-38, P-39, P-40, and P-63, but admittedly bombers and other military types used radials.

[@Hordalending]

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

[@weatherstuff808]

Your voice is so soothing..

[@bleedinggumsroberts3579]

great video

[@Zestence]

Fun fact, the Finnish Air Force is still using the swastika. Lapland Air Command has a swastika on its official flag. I served in that unit in 2009.

[@t.swallgren9204]

Jjust think how many different types they were forced to use. Fighters: Gloster Gladiator, Gloster Gauntlet II, Caudron-Renault C.R. 714, Bulldog, Fokker D21, . Hawker Hart, Fiat G50, Curtis Kittyhawk, Curtis Warhawk, Hurricane, I-16, I-153, LaGG-3, Brewster, Morane, Bf-109, VL Myrsky ... .or bombers: Blenheim, Fokker CX, DB-3, SB-2, Dornier, Junkers-88, Pe-2, Pe-3 .... other aicraft at least 36 different types.

[@granskare]

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

[@jaxxmadine]

Its biz! Good video.

[@kommenttimyrsky451]

I think I have actually been here :P

[@teemuracing3763]

there is another awesome aviation museum in Tikkakoski

[@itmooh]

visit the finnish airforce museum for more indigenous designs.

[@christopherhalim2801]

Bismarck you made great videos but for the love of God increase the volume please

[@MilitaryAviationHistory]

Do to the limitation of my equipment, I had to make some compromises with the audio. Once I get better equipment. it will be fixed ;)

[@eltenda]

Really cool museum

[@megaconda07]

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

[@duke9049]

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

[@iFlyFlightSims]

I know what Bismarck looks like now!!!

[@Jonnio]

3:09 from his "yes" you can hear he is finnish lol

[@agusti92]

Very informative, very cool! You probably noticed, but next time I suggest avoiding being in the middle of the image.

[@MilitaryAviationHistory]

Yup, I marked that down in my little notebook just after seeing the footage :). Thanks for mentioning it though, feedback always helps!

[@johncox9660]

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

[@jcb8014]

nice to put a face to the voice ( ' ~ ' )

[@Tichondrius1]

I had imagined Finland would have had more planes than that.

[@TheJere213]

There are more finnish designs but they didn't go through all of them. For example at 3:35 that red and yellow plane in the background is VL Viima II

[@Kaanfight]

Shit Bismarck doesn't have a glorious white beard? I'm disappointed.

[@danielcarlenfors]

If you are able, i sugest that you visit Aeroseum in Göteborg Sweden. It´s an aviation museum inside av 20.000m2 underground bunker. You cna find their homepage att www dot aersoseum dot se.

[@Moorbote]

You are waaaaay better at presenting than the actual exhibitior LUL

[@RedEyesBDC]

Oh! That's what he looks like? Okay.

[@simeonges1]

"...happened to be a blue swastika and the Finns adopted it..."

[@cptnscarlet]

we cannot see when you stand in front

[@robertk.5195]

I concur. Fine for you to show yourself at the beginning or the final shots. But you're just in the way when you're the center of focus instead of the aircraft.

[@metanumia]

I would love to take you to the U.S. National Air and Space Museum or the U.S. Air Force Museum. :)

[@Heksu99]

Actually, the Finnish Airforce School still has that swastika in their flag

[@heikkisallinen9012]

Not anymore

[@jaihadgeppo150]

The interview was extremely stiff.

[@janhemmer1414]

WHERE'S THE BF 109?!?!!??????!!!!?? I KNOW IT APPEARS IN 80% OF YOUR VIDEOS BUT I WANT TO SEE A REAL FINNISH ONE IN THE MUSEEEEEEEEEUM. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@ajufpv1984]

You need a mic or else talk to the camera facing it. Don't show your back while talking :D

[@WarblesOnALot]

G'day, Well, I understand that you wanted to look at indigenous Finnish Trainers.... But the arguement could be made that it was a mistake to go to Helsinki and visit the Finnish Air Force Museum, and then waste the Video by making it about a couple of obscure Types which never did anything particularly startling....; rather than featuring the highest-scoring individual Fighter AIRFRAME in the entire history of Aerial Warfare, which is also in the Museum at Helsinki - ie the Brewster Buffalo which shot down 44 Soviet Aircraft... Maybe you're goanna say that, "Well, these were the Trainers which taught the Buffalo-Jockeys how to fly...., and the Video about the Buffalo will follow in due course...." (?). I hope so...., but if you left that place without videoing their Buffalo....; then as pennance you should probably walk around in circles, kicking yourself in the Bum with every step, until your Knees fail from the sustained effort of lifting your Heels up sufficiently high....! Just(ifiably ?) sayin', ;-p Ciao !

[@badnade4886]

You handsome devil you.

[@eescoto71]

god willing they don't demonetize this video because of the finnish swastika being a "hate symbol"

[@jamesmason4062]

i got 4,444 views! its a sign of good luck

[@3rKoPlaysMinecraft]

So you're not the same person as military history visualized

[@lorenzor2555]

I know that you are german, but I wonder if you have italian roots (I am italian): your face is typical (north) italian rather than german to my eyes. And also you move and make hand gestures just like us italians…

[@_datapoint]

You don't look anything like Bismarck. ;)

[@itsmattymattymatty]

Wait you don't look very German

[@h.cedric8157]

Triggered SJW warrior snowflakes will be offended at 00:36 of the video. hahahahah Bismarck, Thanks for explaining rather than censoring!

[@danielbat9887]

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

[@Tibilaulaulau]

Daniel Băț Dezamăgire totală :(

[@tillamook7446]

A Bavarian random guy

[@ottofin3178]

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

[@kantyran6449]

Otto FIN you need them to pass the exams ;)

[@LupusAries]

Perkele there is no proper Schnauzbart on him, Bismarck you have to work on that! And where is your Pickelhaube! And no Sword, how dare you to go out dressed so improperly Bismarck? ;)

[@cromagnonac]

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

[@FroggyFrog9000]

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

[@bengibbs6933]

Bahahaha

[@HerskalleLuottoo]

nah.. he paid us with Stug 3s and messerschmitt 109 G6s to start with.. we are happy with that :)

[@heikkisallinen9012]

I wonder ,why he stopped sueing us after 1945 . . .

[@MikeGoesBoom]

Hey Bismarck, looking good ;)

[@Sgtdoc]

Is he a sexy beast?

[@carlthecoworker5596]

Yes

[@ramjb]

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)

[@ramjb]

On a more serious note if you're into air museums and you happen to fall around Spain you know who to call to take you to the Spanish Air Museum....you'll half love it and half be torn by the stupid culture of this 3rd world country that keeps aviation jewels rotting under the naked sky because there's no budget for more hangars... Still an incredible place to visit.

[@agusti92]

ramjb only half? The paint on them is completely wasted, sadly. Still amazing tho (that Catalina, yummy)

[@agusti92]

ramjb btw, probably stupid question, but do you know the FIO?

[@akikarjalainen3981]

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!

[@Pfsif]

Somebody get that tour guide a cup of coffee.

[@Alexandros.Mograine]

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.

[@ctwentysevenj6531]

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

[@WolfKenneth]

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

[@richard343s]

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

[@Franky46Boy]

Tour? I only see three very nice indigenous aircraft, but where are the Fokkers and Brewster???

[@Workerbee-zy5nx]

Finnish museum? Um did they Finish it?

[@williamchurchill203]

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

[@erictaylor5462]

Weren't the Finns an Axis power? At least part of the time. I thought it had something to do with the Winter War, but I'm not sure. I put a Russian Commissar calling "improvised incendiary grenades" "Molotov Cocktails" as a mistake for Call Of Duty: World at War. I don't know for sure but I think it very unlikely that a Russian Political officer would use this term at that time, considering it's historical origins. I have always felt that the Finns are very heroic in WWII and they almost never get any credit for it.

[@Deuzen_FIN]

The answer to whether the Finns were part of the Axis depends on who you ask. The Finnish stance to this day remains that Finland was not part of the Axis; Finland and Germany simply saw a common enemy in the USSR and the benefits of helping each other on that front. The Allies, however, labeled Finland an Axis power once the territory lost in Winter War was reclaimed and the Finnish troops kept advancing into Soviet territory. And yes, the name "Molotov Cocktail" is considered to have been coined by the Finns during the Winter War, as a jeer towards the Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov who claimed the Soviet bombing runs were actually airborne food deliveries. The Finns eventually decided to repay the favor by giving the Soviets "some drink to go with the food".

[@erictaylor5462]

It sounds like Finland's Axis alliance was very much like the USSR Allied Alliance. I don't think it's anything to be ashamed of. You pretty much cleared up the confusion for me, Thank you. And I did know about the "historical context". That's why I think it unlikely any Russian would call them "Molotovs". Personally I think Finland got pretty badly shafted in that war. They stood up heroically against unprovoked attacks, and ended up in an unwanted alliance with the most hated person in the 20th Century. Too many people confuse "war time alliance" with "They agree about everything."

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

Eric Taylor Many seems to forget that lapland war in -44-45 where Finns fight agains Germany.

[@treerat7631]

Finland only fought the Soviets they never went too war with US our the British

[@angelreading5098]

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