WOOO HOOO, My Brand spanking New Hot off the presses Ali D'Italia 18 C.R.D.A. Cant Z 1007 came yesterday. Like all in this series it is a great book, very informative, and filled with a ton of great picks, interiour ones as well showing all the gun positions and and crew positions, detailed drawings of the aircraft and turets as well. It also covers the remakable history of this amasing plane in great detail.
Some Quotes from this Volume:
p.9 "The cant Z 1007 apears to be the most advanced Italian landplane bomber wrote the Air Staff Office( on 3 Augast 1938)"
p.11 " Magor Giuseppe Colavolpe, commandor of the 1st Flying unit, described the handeling qualities as excellent and satisfactory under every aspect."
p.11 "On 12th Augast 1939, the Air Staff Office informed Gabaereo that the preformance recorded placed the type very clearly ahead of the SM 79."
p.11" Since the Cant Z 1007bis has been shown to have better preformance than all other Standard Bomber aircraft currently in service, and in the event that such results be sanctioned by practial experience with service units{they were}, it will presumably be necessary to orient future orders towards this aircraft type."
p.22 "upon entering service the Cant Z 1007bis immedately showed qualities that endeared it to it's crews- docile handeling, stable platform, good low speed characteristics."
p.22 " bombs were well placed, making for predictable trajectories that inproved accuracery."
P.22 "Defensive arament was also found adaquate to keep enemy fighters at bay."
p.22 " wooden structure extreamly strong"
p.26 " the gradual increase in of the Cant Z 1007bis production rate translated into greater availabaility, which in turn allowed sereral SM 79 units to convert onto the new bomber."
p.35 "1942..."by now the aircraft formed the backbone of the reconnaissance and bomber units."
p.37 " Lt Vittorio Sanseverino, a veteran of the 256th squadrigilia, testifies that the 1007 could take great punishment and was not easily set on fire."
After the armistice, the Germans and the allies made use of the Cant Z 1007 howeaver the alies seam to of made greater use of the type suporting operations in Italy and in suport of Titos paratisans. In various forms/ and in varing roles the type saw service untill the end of the war on both sides and the last of it's type was finaly withdrawn from service in November 1949.
