Aircraft Identification Help Needed
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Aircraft Identification Help Needed
Ehm..Hello!!? Sorry for intromission and my poor english.
I'am Daniele, from Italy. In a Italian forum from G.A.V.S. site (Gruppo Amici Velivoli Storici - Historical Aircraft Friends Group) we try to identify an old italian aircraft from a photo of his cockpit. Now i ask you: you can help us? I have found your forum and this Topic, i think you are experts.
This is the photo:
http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?i...difoto1wm9.jpg
Thank's !!
Daniele
I'am Daniele, from Italy. In a Italian forum from G.A.V.S. site (Gruppo Amici Velivoli Storici - Historical Aircraft Friends Group) we try to identify an old italian aircraft from a photo of his cockpit. Now i ask you: you can help us? I have found your forum and this Topic, i think you are experts.
This is the photo:
http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?i...difoto1wm9.jpg
Thank's !!
Daniele
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Hi Daniele.
It would appear to be an Italian twin engined aircraft possibly early 1930s. My immediate thoughts are that this aircraft is the Savoia Marchetti S.55X. The control column is construction similar to that used on the SM S.55 shown in this photograph:-
This photograph was published on the thread "What Cockpit" in Dec 2005.
On 1st July 1933, 25 Savoia Marchetti seaplanes took off from Ortebello, Italia, for a second Atlantic Cruise, to celebrate the ten years of the "Regia Aeronautica". The new Savoia S.55X variant (X is the Roman numeral for 10 years) had improved streamlining, enlarged hulls, and new closely cowled 860 hp Isotta Fraschini Asso 750 engines.
Mel
It would appear to be an Italian twin engined aircraft possibly early 1930s. My immediate thoughts are that this aircraft is the Savoia Marchetti S.55X. The control column is construction similar to that used on the SM S.55 shown in this photograph:-
This photograph was published on the thread "What Cockpit" in Dec 2005.
On 1st July 1933, 25 Savoia Marchetti seaplanes took off from Ortebello, Italia, for a second Atlantic Cruise, to celebrate the ten years of the "Regia Aeronautica". The new Savoia S.55X variant (X is the Roman numeral for 10 years) had improved streamlining, enlarged hulls, and new closely cowled 860 hp Isotta Fraschini Asso 750 engines.
Mel
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Hi Daniele,
I have asked a friend of mine a fellow Italian if he can help you out on this, he is Ferdinando D'Amico a well known historian and author of Aviation History.
see link for some of his books, I will let you know when he gets back to me ok
http://books.stonebooks.com/cgi-bin/...author?fdamico
I have asked a friend of mine a fellow Italian if he can help you out on this, he is Ferdinando D'Amico a well known historian and author of Aviation History.
see link for some of his books, I will let you know when he gets back to me ok
http://books.stonebooks.com/cgi-bin/...author?fdamico
