By: willy.henderick - 13th November 2004 at 15:07
Thks Veltro for the info
By: Tom-W - 3rd November 2004 at 21:47
Don’t worry Tom, your tea-making skills are well known and much appreciated. Suitable rides will follow as night follows day…! 🙂
Cheers mate 😉
Tom
By: Veltro - 3rd November 2004 at 15:17
Authentic?
The silver/aluminum finish is authentic to the G.46 (although it probably had a blue hue), but the white fuselage band and tail cross are pseudo-WW2 stuff. Roundels never coexisted with tail crosses, in WW1, WW2 or in between.
Veltro
By: willy.henderick - 3rd November 2004 at 13:52
OO-VOR is a G-46A (single-seater) flying in authentic c/s whereas the two-seaters are desigbed G.46B
By: duxfordhawk - 3rd November 2004 at 01:47
No way.
In short, the G.46 was a postwar trainer. By then, Italy was a republic, so the royal cross and badge on the rudder are anachronistic.
No desert camouflage was ever applied to the Italian G.46 fleet either.
The result is about as realistic as the paintwork on the Australian G.59, or the wacky Frasca conversion in the States. If anyone did the equivalent to a Spit or ‘109, this board would be saturated with protests. But it’s Italian, so nobody even notices. Why, oh why?Veltro
I think the why oh why can be answered by the fact that we have got no “Real” Italian warbirds flying so the G46 and G59 are nearest we get and a little like the Buchon situation they end up in colours not becoming to the roles they flew when in service.
Myself i feel lucky to have seen both a G46 and G59 fly and wish more Italian designs were flying now they are a largely neglected nation when it comes to Warbirds.
By: Veltro - 2nd November 2004 at 22:55
No way
No way.
In short, the G.46 was a postwar trainer. By then, Italy was a republic, so the royal cross and badge on the rudder are anachronistic.
No desert camouflage was ever applied to the Italian G.46 fleet either.
The result is about as realistic as the paintwork on the Australian G.59, or the wacky Frasca conversion in the States. If anyone did the equivalent to a Spit or ‘109, this board would be saturated with protests. But it’s Italian, so nobody even notices. Why, oh why?
Veltro
By: aerovet - 2nd November 2004 at 22:04
Mauro
Are these original colours for the Italian AF?
Aerovet
By: Southern Cross - 2nd November 2004 at 12:42
G.46
Don’t worry Tom, your tea-making skills are well known and much appreciated. Suitable rides will follow as night follows day…! 🙂
By: Mauro - 2nd November 2004 at 09:54
FIAT G-46 in Italy
I send a photo of Famigdale FIAT G-46 snaped at PADOVA AIRFIELD (Italy) when it was restored in 1972.
Mauro
By: Tom-W - 29th October 2004 at 19:21
I believe I saw it for sale in Flyer recently…
You believe correctly laddie, the prop is currently away for a Notice 75 inspection but once it returns there might be a flight or two planned, still haven’t had a trip in this one, best improve my tea making skills methinks 😉
Tom
By: David Burke - 28th October 2004 at 22:33
They do look a lot better in silver training colours. The machine which ended up with ARCO was formerly with the Historic Aircraft Museum at Southend. It was sold at auction to the British Air Reserve at Lympne.
She deteriorated rapidly with BAR before ARCO saved her. She departed to Europe in the mid 1990’s.
By: aerovet - 28th October 2004 at 21:03
Here is the Belgian example flying with the VAF (Vormezeele Air Force). It is seen here in take off from Lelystad, NL
Aerovet
By: Yak 11 Fan - 27th October 2004 at 11:26
I believe I saw it for sale in Flyer recently…
By: duxfordhawk - 27th October 2004 at 11:14
They are a Lovely Aircraft here is the UK example,Also posted a few weeks ago on my Pictures from 2004 thread.
By: stringbag - 27th October 2004 at 10:27
…and what a lovely machine it is, as is the US-based example 🙂
By: DazDaMan - 27th October 2004 at 08:14
There’s one of these in the UK.
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