Airframes
Benevolens Magister
"Ja, just turn left at the junction, here, und der bistro is 20 meters down on the right. Tell Claudette that Heinz sent you."
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at6
1st Sergeant
"Just sign here and here. Then it will be all yours."
at6
1st Sergeant
"And then she groped me at the rally."
michaelmaltby
Colonel
michaelmaltby
Colonel
Cossacks in German service
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
WOW!!! Very cool finds here folks. Keep'em coming please.
at6
1st Sergeant
"Nope. It says nothing about the installed portapotty."
michaelmaltby
Colonel
Ardennes
michaelmaltby
Colonel
Smokey Stover
Banned
After Macchi MC 205 Veltro and Reggiane Re 2005, Fiat G.55 was another airplane equipped with twelve cylinder engine Daimler Benz D.B. 605 built by Italian factory under licence. Fiat G. 55 was built in metal and had an extended wing span and high speed expecially in high altitude. It was produced in small quantity and was not be able to make difference in air war in Italy. The first prototype flew on April 1942 and immediately showed its good performances and flight. The Centauro was called "SERIE 0", early version armed with 1× 20 m.m. cannon M.G. mauser and 4 ×12 Breda Safat machine gun two on the upper cowling engine and two lower cowling firing trough the propeller arc. Another version followed called "Serie 1" was armed with 3×20 M.G. cannons (151/20 in each wing and one on the cowling of the tree blade propeller) and 2×12,7 m.m. Breda Safat on the upper cowling engine. Fiat G. 55 Centauro served on Regia Aeronautica with pre-production series of 34 airplanes ordered to "Serie 1". Squadrons of Regia Aeronautica that utilized G. 55 were "Ventesimo Gruppo" of 51 "Stormo Caccia Terrestre" in Ciampino airfield, 353 ^ Squadriglia based in Umbria; others were assigned to 372 ^ Squadriglia of 153 Gruppo in Torino Mirafiori until the Armistice of "Otto Settembre 1943". When Italy surrendered to the Allied Forces. The Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana was the air force born at the end of 1943; After this period "Centauros" were employed for duty interceptions of Allies Bomber that were passing throw in the sky of North Italy. "Squadriglia Montefusco" was the first Unit that operated in Piemonte on March 1944. Another Unit operated with Fiat G - 55 was 2nd. GROUP Caccia : Squadriglie 4^ "Gigi Tre Osei", 5^ "Diavoli Rossi" 6^ "Gamba di Ferro", based on the airfield of Milain, Varese, Parma, Pavia, under the Repubblica Sociale Italiana insigna; this powerful and fast aircraft proved itself to be an excellent fighter airplane an excellent interceptor at high altitude claiming many victories against P-51 Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt and Spitfire Mk IX. After the Second World War the "Centauro" served in the Italian Air Force and was re-equipped with a new engine the Rolls Royce Merlin twelve cylinder engine. Today only an airplane survive, it is preserved in Italy in Vigna di Valle Air Museum near Rome.
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Smokey Stover
Banned
They shouldnt have bothered, the Russians bizarrely enough didnt like flying them.....
Smokey Stover
Banned
The SOE spies clandestine aircraft of choice. "lizzie" The Westland Lysander
It is not true. In the same way it is said about P-39s. Just these were politically incorrect.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Amazing what disguises the chaps at Baker Street could come up with!
Hugh Verity in the center, with his Lysander 'Jimminy Cricket', now re-created at the IWM Duxford.
Hugh Verity in the center, with his Lysander 'Jimminy Cricket', now re-created at the IWM Duxford.
michaelmaltby
Colonel
Soviet Spitfires ... Kuban, 1943
Spitfires over the Kuban
Spitfires over the Kuban
