MY-5 fuselage frame brought from Finnish Aviation Museum to the Puusepäntie workshop

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The Tuesday Club has been working all autumn at the Finnish Aviation Museum and also at the Aviation Museum Society’s workshop in Puusepäntie to build the Demo-Myrsky. The Demo-Myrsky is built to display the inner structures of the Myrsky II fighter, designed and built by the Finnish State Aircraft Factory. Myrsky had a mixed structure, its fuselage was made of welded steel tube and the front fuselage had aluminium plate covering and the rear part was covered with fabric. The wing, the vertical and horizontal stabilizers and the rudder were made of wood and covered with plywood.

At the Finnish Aviation Museum the fuselage frame of Myrsky MY-5, which is in poor condition, has been restored to be used in the Demo-Myrsky. This work has continued at the museum, because the work phases on the fuselage frame have required welding and other metal work and the Puusepäntie workshop doesn’t yet have the facilities for doing this kind of work. Missing parts have been added to the MY-5 fuselage frame, and the windscreen entity, canopy frames and foot controls have been installed. At Puusepäntie the fuselage formers, horizontal stabilizer and rudder have been built and the original, but badly damaged Myrsky aluminium-structure vertical stabilizer has been repaired.

Finally we are in the situation where the work on the MY-5 fuselage frame has been completed at the museum, and the fuselage could be transported from the museum to Puusepäntie. At Puusepäntie the fuselage covering work can be started by fastening the formers on the fuselage frame. The fuselage will be covered only on one side so that the inner structures remain visible.

Photo: Jaakko Rantasalo

Before the Myrsky fuselage was brought in, some rearranging was needed in the Puusepäntie workshop so that the MY-5 fuselage would fit in with the Super Chug OH-XTM and the Snoopy OH-XEA fuselages, which are already there. When the preparations had been made, the MY-5 fuselage frame was loaded on a trailer, waiting outside the museum, on 17 November. On the following day the trailer was fastened on the towing hook of the Octavia and the journey to Puusepäntie began.

When arriving at Puusepäntie, the cargo straps around the MY-5 were unfastened and the fuselage frame was lowered from the trailer on the tarmac outside the workshop. Then the fuselage frame was pulled on its auxiliary wheels, welded on the frame, into the workshop. It fitted well into the working area. Now the three fuselages (Super Chug, Snoopy and MY-5) stand side by side, waiting to be restored.

We can soon call the workshop the Aircraft Factory of the Aviation Museum Society!

Photos: Lassi karivalo, unless otherwise mentioned

Translation to English: Erja Reinikainen