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Fiat CR42 Falco
- Reg: MM5643 photos
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- Airline: Italy - Air Force
- Photo Date: Aug 26, 2021
- Uploaded: Oct 31, 2021
- Vigna di Valle - LIRB, Italy
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Preserved at Italian Air Force museum of Vigna di Valle. It is certainly the best known fighter aircraft, and also the most produced, of the Italian Air Force of the Second World War. Last exponent of the biplanes produced by Eng. Rosatelli (CR = Caccia Rosatelli), starting from CR.1 of 1923, is a clear development of the famous CR.32. The first prototype flew in 1938 and immediately followed a first order by the Regia Aeronautica for 200 units. It must be said that this aircraft, although very agile and apparently powerful, already from its birth had characteristics that were not in line with the standards required for an aircraft of the time. Comparing its characteristics with the Italian aircraft produced in the same period, (for example the Macchi 200, the G.50 and the RE.2000) it can be seen that the speed difference was about 70 Km / h, which became 150 Km / h compared to the English Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt Me. BF-109. Not to mention the complex construction technique, deriving from the production of wood-canvas planes applied to metal, so different from the new construction canons of the aforementioned nations. Despite this, while the G.50 and the Macchi 200 were not produced after 1942, the CR 42 remained in production until the middle of 1943. It was the most used fighter aircraft on almost all fronts of the world war and his contribution was important above all in Eastern and Northern Africa where in version with sub-wing bombs he obtained good results. No intact original specimen remained in the possession of the Italian Air Force. The model of the Museum is a faithful reconstruction of the aircraft made using 60% of original parts recovered in Sweden, France and Italy; the aircraft bears the livery of the MM5643 that belonged to the 162nd CT Squadron based in Rhodes in 1941, with codes 162-6
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Preserved at Italian Air Force museum of Vigna di Valle. It is certainly the best known fighter aircraft, and also the most produced, of the Italian Air Force of the Second World War. Last exponent of the biplanes produced by Eng. Rosatelli (CR = Caccia Rosatelli), starting from CR.1 of 1923, is a clear development of the famous CR.32. The first prototype flew in 1938 and immediately followed a first order by the Regia Aeronautica for 200 units. It must be said that this aircraft, although very agile and apparently powerful, already from its birth had characteristics that were not in line with the standards required for an aircraft of the time. Comparing its characteristics with the Italian aircraft produced in the same period, (for example the Macchi 200, the G.50 and the RE.2000) it can be seen that the speed difference was about 70 Km / h, which became 150 Km / h compared to the English Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt Me. BF-109. Not to mention the complex construction technique, deriving from the production of wood-canvas planes applied to metal, so different from the new construction canons of the aforementioned nations. Despite this, while the G.50 and the Macchi 200 were not produced after 1942, the CR 42 remained in production until the middle of 1943. It was the most used fighter aircraft on almost all fronts of the world war and his contribution was important above all in Eastern and Northern Africa where in version with sub-wing bombs he obtained good results. No intact original specimen remained in the possession of the Italian Air Force. The model of the Museum is a faithful reconstruction of the aircraft made using 60% of original parts recovered in Sweden, France and Italy; the aircraft bears the livery of the MM5643 that belonged to the 162nd CT Squadron based in Rhodes in 1941, with codes 162-6Camera
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- Reg: MM5643 photos
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Fiat CR42 Falco
- Airline: Italy - Air Force
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Vigna di Valle - LIRB
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