hello everybody!
well, I know that chap pretty well, he’s an ex-comrade of my restoration partner and I tell u this, we’re both pretty disgusted by the Frecce Tricolori display. Some years ago the wrecks were out there without even a cover, and with a small plate under them stating “Frecce Tricolori wrecks from Ramstein”. The question is how the sod got ’em. After the aviation authorities finished their investigations the material had to be scrapped (we still have the DC-9 of the Ustica accident, that happened when I was born, this is because the investigations are still not finished, but this is another sad story). The local scrapyard sold the thing to the museum owner that had the brilliant idea to place them there for show.. We sent emails and personally expressed our disgust for the lack of tact, so the guy had the idea to create a monument and cover the remains, but the thing is still there.. It can’t be compared to the recover of a ww2 wreck because it was just an accident, and if u consider that the very same kind of aircraft, MB339, still serves with the Frecce, I find that at least tactless, if not a little bit fetish…
About the G.46, it’s a nice machine, with more than a pair of project under restoration here in italy, but the spares are really really really hard to find, there’s really no market at all about them. I wished to restorate an italian plane, but I found a Harvard IV and I’m so happy with it 🙂
One note: the DC-3 u see is the one that belonged to Clark Gable

watch six!

Alex