pbfoot
1st Lieutenant
The one point i'd like to make and haven't seen here is that the series 5 Italian fighters were close to the best in performance of WW2 prop driven fighters but the point is they were late . by the time any significant amount had been constucted they would have been in the same position they found themselves in the beginning of the war . When WW2 started the Italians were flying what was the pinnacle of biplane technology but because they were behind the technology curve if and when the aircraft came on line in any significant numbers they would have been facing jets