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Travel For Aircraft Bookshelf – Aeronautica Macchi Fighters: C.200 Saetta C.202 Folgore C.205 Veltro

Travel For Aircraft Bookshelf – Aeronautica Macchi Fighters: C.200 Saetta, C.202 Folgore, C.205 Veltroby Luigino Caliaro, reviewed by Joe May When seeing the NASM's Aeronautica Macchi C.202 Folgore ...
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Aeronautica Macchi C.202 Folgore

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Virtually unknown outside Italy, the C.202 Folgore was the best fighter airplane fielded in significant numbers by the ...
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Italy’s Macchi C.202 Folgore Was a Great WWII Plane. Why Has No One Ever Heard of It?

The Folgore’s lightweight construction (weighing around 5,500 pounds) and responsive handling earned it praise from its pilots and avowed respect from its adversaries. Looking back on the Axis Powers ...
Times of Malta

When an Italian Macchi C.202 crashed at Qasam Barrani

July 2, 1942, 7.45pm. The air raid sirens wails echoed around the island for what was to be the final attack of the day. Two Cant Z.1007s Italian bombers, escorted by 15 Macchi C.202s, droned towards ...
The Aviationist

The Macchi C.202 Folgore of the National Air and Space Museum

The picture shows the aircraft Macchi C.202 Folgore marked 9476 exhibited at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. The aircraft is one of the few Italian WWII fighters that escaped ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Air and Space Museum Lands Alitalia and WWII Italian Air Force Artifacts

Aeronautica Macchi C.202 Folgore National Air and Space Museum The Macchi C.202 Folgore is considered one of the best fighter planes Italy designed during World War II. There are only two remaining in ...