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Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: 68DevilM on April 15, 2005, 12:09:53 PM

random pic.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/357_1113584642_ap12.jpg)

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: Furball on April 15, 2005, 12:33:45 PM

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: XrightyX on April 15, 2005, 01:49:49 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Furball

I thought Italians had a sophisticated sense of style.  I'm just not seeing it though :) :).

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: Furball on April 15, 2005, 02:27:01 PM

no...

the italians make one beautiful thing for every 200 or so oddities.

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: DaddyAck on April 15, 2005, 02:34:40 PM

Hah! :rofl

Thats funny, the whole oddity to sleek ratio.

But all that plane above is a less armed c201
with a radial engine.  The plane really did not come
into it's own until after they lost the radial and
went inline.

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: bob149 on April 16, 2005, 12:45:36 AM

hmm not designed by pinna ferrari ;)
But very nimble i believe.

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: Ecliptik on April 16, 2005, 01:43:19 AM

Early war Italian fighters and most of their bombers are pretty hideous.   Macchi redeemed themselves with the beautiful C.202 and 205's, and the Re 2005 is a gorgeous plane.

Even the Brits produced eyesores like the Skua, Beaufighter, and Firefly.  :D

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: bob149 on April 16, 2005, 02:11:34 AM

i grant u the skua was a bit on the smurfy side ...but the beau and the firefly !!!!!!!!!!

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: bob149 on April 16, 2005, 02:45:35 AM

If u want ugly , may i suggest the BLOCH 200  , now that is ugly :lol

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: eilif on April 16, 2005, 03:19:25 AM

mc 200 is awsome looking, but ya its not exactly the ideal ;)

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: Gianlupo on April 16, 2005, 06:29:44 AM

DaddyAck, that's not a C.201, here it is a picture of it (it was the only prototype built):

(http://www.finn.it/regia/immagini/macchi/macchi_c201_mm436_lonate_pozzolo_ago1940.jpg)
(btw, I took this photo from Regia aeronautica italiana (http://www.finn.it/regia/index.htm), it's a nice site where to find pictures of italian planes)

the picture Devil posted is a C.200 (and, please, note that the right designation is C. for Macchi fighters, not MC.)

Bob149, the designer's name is Pininfarina, unless you wanted to do a joke mixing his name with that of one of his most famous creations.

And, yes, the italian monoplane fighter of the beginnig of the war weren't a beauty, they were pretty ugly, indeed! (with the only possible exception of Reggiane Re.2000)
Only with inline engine they became good looking.

Bye!

P.S. Devil, I downloaded your 68devilm_2 movie, very nice, and great music. What codec did you use for it?

EDIT: no exception, the Re.2000 is ugly, too!

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: bob149 on April 16, 2005, 07:47:02 AM

Gianlupo
Sorry mate no offence intended , didnt realise that was who the designer was ...ooops normally his stuff is very nice to look at ..oh we ll u live n learn :)
Cheers

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: Gianlupo on April 16, 2005, 11:32:50 AM

Not offended, Bob, I just wanted to correct   a mistake ;) Sorry if my tone was too peremptory :p

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: Speznaz on April 16, 2005, 04:27:24 PM

Non sarà Pinna Ferrari, però, é pur sempre un bel aeroplano :aok

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: thebest1 on April 16, 2005, 05:55:06 PM

:BLARFF:

Title: g59
Post by: Blixen on April 16, 2005, 11:57:26 PM

(http://www.warbirds.co.nz/images/fiat-g59.jpg)

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: Rino on April 17, 2005, 10:12:46 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Ecliptik
Early war Italian fighters and most of their bombers are pretty hideous.   Macchi redeemed themselves with the beautiful C.202 and 205's, and the Re 2005 is a gorgeous plane.

Even the Brits produced eyesores like the Skua, Beaufighter, and Firefly.  :D

     During the middle to late 30s the Brits, French and Italians
seemed to have had the world's ugliest airplane contest.
Unfortunately all three seemed to have won ;).

Title: Re: g59
Post by: thebest1 on April 17, 2005, 11:13:24 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Blixen
(http://www.warbirds.co.nz/images/fiat-g59.jpg)

wow! thats nice

Title: MC-200 saetta
Post by: Gianlupo on April 18, 2005, 05:46:43 AM

Speznaz: sinceramente, mettendo da parte l'orgoglio nazionale, non mi sembra tanto bello.... sembra un po' l'aereo di Topolino! (for you guys who don't speak italian, I've just said that the C.200 looks like a Mickey Mouse's plane!)

Rino, what about them?

Boeing P-26A

(http://www.aviation-history.com/boeing/p26-3.gif)

Brewster F2A Buffalo

(http://www.kotfsc.com/aviation/graphics/f2a-photo1.jpg)

Republic (Seversky) P-35

(http://www.kotfsc.com/aviation/graphics/p35-photo1.jpg)