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F4U Corsair, Luftwaffe

In the FAA's HMS formidable colours During the Fleet Air Arm attacks against the battleship DKM Tirpitz in Norway, several Corsairs were lost, shot down and apparently one more or less intact, although the story of this one is unreliable, on the Internet there is only one narration, which is identical , which makes her suspicious, according to her, an almost intact plane landed in Norway and was captured, the device came from the carrier HMS Formidable But the story is somewhat dubious, because there is not a single photo of him, Rechlin's planes are more or less documented and there are photos of them, but there are none of a Corsair, which could mean that all information about him was lost , or that it never reached Rechlin after all in 1944 there were few ships that managed to make the Norway-Germany route, or that it did not exist. This is my interpretation of such a Corsair, with the colors of the FAA and the code of the aircraft carrier 7E, copying a photo of another ...

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The Fiat G.50Bis Freccia, was one of the main Italian fighters at the beginning of the War in the Mediterranean, although it was somewhat obsolete, it was due to having a wrong design conceptualization, based more on the proven, than on the most recent concepts. At the beginning, it was a metal monoplane with a closed cabin, but it was modified to fit the habits of the Italian pilots. When the Italian Desert Offensive, at the beginning of the war, failed, the British counterattacked, defeating them at Bede Fomm, among the enormous material captured, there were many Italian fighters, many of them intact, captured in such a rapid advance, that the Italian pilots learned of the British presence when they woke them up with a rifle pointed at them. British badges were painted on them and they were destined for hacks and trainers, as far as I know, none were sent to Great Britain for evaluation, their fate is unknown. Airfix Lodela model, El Viejo Marino painting, all brush decoration

Italian Swordfish

One of the Swordfish captured by the Italians, this was one of the planes shot down in the attack on Taranto, rescued from the sea within the bay, during the attack that mentally disabled the Italian fleet, the material damage was serious, but the traumas They were terrible, the Italian Navy lost its vigor and the will to fight. It was not the only Swordfish captured by the Italians, at least another more complete aircraft fell into their hands, a more or less complete plane managed to land in Rhodes after an attack, it could be rebuilt and evaluated locally, in reality the Swordfish did not offer much advanced technical information, except for their buoyancy and anchoring devices, but the Italians seem not to have used them.

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