Author Topic: italian planes (Read 581 times)

croduh · « **on:** December 01, 2005, 02:42:51 PM »

Remodel italian planes or add some more

Skilless · « **Reply #1 on:** December 01, 2005, 03:57:30 PM »

How about one of these?

Krusty · « **Reply #2 on:** December 01, 2005, 05:43:49 PM »

Not a war-time bird. Post war jet.

I'd like to see the Macci 200 (One of the most numerous Italian planes in use, despite being obsolete by AH standards) and I wouldn't mind the G55 or the Re2005, despite both only performing at the level of the C205, and both being far rarer than the 205. They would be good "what if" planes.

Debonair · « **Reply #3 on:** December 02, 2005, 01:00:58 AM »

Caproni-Campini N-1, from 1940.
Unarmed & slow, I'd love to meet a lot of those in the MA
two built
All of this info courtesy of

SMIDSY · « **Reply #4 on:** December 02, 2005, 04:22:30 AM »

i love italian planes. they seem to have had a love affair with 3 engined bombers. they had the best heavy torpedo bombers of the war (forget what it was called). they just have beautiful lines.

frank3 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 02, 2005, 07:52:10 AM »

Those Italians sure have a taste for lines

Sakai · « **Reply #6 on:** December 02, 2005, 08:15:41 AM »

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Originally posted by SMIDSY
i love italian planes. they seem to have had a love affair with 3 engined bombers. they had the best heavy torpedo bombers of the war (forget what it was called). they just have beautiful lines.

SM79, Sparveiro.

Much of its success was due to the White Fiume torpedoes they used.

But yes, it was a stable and excellent torpedo delivery platform.

The Cant Z.1007 Alcione was a somewhat better level bomber, but the SM79 is a classic and had the Allies worried because as I recall it could outrun their fighters in the desert at the outbreak so they feared that, as in La Guerra Civil in Spain, they'd be standing around waiting for the Italians to bomb them at will.

Anyways, the Italians used many different planes for Maritime duty and they had a lovely tri engined float plane torpedoe bomber, the Z.506 Airone I think "Heron".

I have a copy of the Regia Aeronautica which is a terrific book and I think if you wanted to follow up you might check out:

Greene, Jack and Alessandro Massignani. The Naval War in the Mediterranean, 1940-1943. Rockville Centre, NY: Sarpedon, 1998.

Sakai