SM79Sparviero
Airman
Breda 88 was operatively and from any other point of view a poor aircraft but ,strange to say,in 1938 it got a world record in maximum medium speed with load at 100-200 Km......
Shortly:
1)If you have a dragster projected for the maximum speed and acceleration along 1 Km( more, with an unreliable engine for the poor quality of the steel alloys available) , you paint it with mimetic camouflage and a bull-bar and you try to run an african rally of 1000 Km don't get surprised when it is stopped by 2 cm of gravel.
2)Breda factories had built exclusively light weapons, flamethrowers, hand grenades ,heavy tractors up t0 year 1935, when they suddently and inexplicably shifted to aircrafts,only with a experience of guns,grenades ,flamethrowers etc etc.With this poor aeronautical background they immediately won two public competitions for an assault aircraft ( breda Ba-65 and, later, Ba 88) over other italian industries that had built aircrafts since 1914! I am still wondering the reason why all this happened, but the fact that king Vittorio Emanuele III and Savoia family were among the main owners of Breda industries seems quite suspect.......