Emergency equipments to MY-14

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VL Myrsky has the emergency equipment consist of a pairs of skiis, an axe, a K-ration pack and a toolkit. They are located after the cockpit and the oxygen bottles below the the canopy aft glazing. They were attached to the plywood plate by leather straps. The access to the emergency equipment bay was arranged by the glazing hatch.

The brackets of the plywood plate were existing in the all frames (MY-5, -9 and -14). Although the axe did not belong to the emergency equipment anymore, it had still the leather straps. Now the straps were disappeared except small parts between the plywood plate and mounting plates. All emergency equipments were disappeared.

The new plywood plate has been made according to the drawings. The brackets were blasted and painted. The screws were renewed.

The mounting plates of the leather straps were renewed. The leather straps were made according to the drawings and the preserved parts of the Fokker D.XXI (FR-137).

The leather straps were fixed to the plywood plate according to the drawings.

The pairs of skiis were restored and tared earlier. They were fixed to the plate. The axe was fixed tentatively since the axe and the toolkit did not belong to the emergency equipments during the wartime. The K-ration pack belonged but it has disappeared. The drawings of the K-ration pack were disappeared, too.

The K-ration pack can be redone if the needed drawing will be found.

The historical photo: The photo archive of the Finnish Aviation Museum. Other photos: The Finnish Air Force Museum.