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Aermacchi was an Italian aircraft manufacturer. Established originally in 1912 as the Nieuport-Macchi S.A. by Giulio Macchi at Varese in north-western Lombardy. It was later known as Aeronautica Macchi S.p.A. During the firms formative years Macchi worked closely with engine designer Vittorio...

May 29, 1968 hit the News that Charles DeGaulle die in a Helicopter crash near Baden-Baden, Germany The unstable Political scene and struggle for his successor and let to a civil war. Between the right wing, conservative and Army against Left wing socialist, Communist, labor unions and students...

Hi guys, I came across this reference to a project being developed by helicopter pioneer Corradino D`ascanio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Campini_Ca.183bis It relates to a desire to employ a BMW 003 turbojet into an helicopter before WW2 ended. Does anyone could come up with more on...

Hi, the RAF selected the Caproni C.22J for the military Specification as light trainer aircraft,the Caproni also planed to develope a single seat version as recce and light attack models and single seat anti-helicopter version armedwith Shorts air-to-air Blowpipe missiles...

FIAT G91 was one of the most succesful Italian aeronautical products of '60s. A lot of the were produced and utilized at least by AMI, Luftwaffe and Portoguese Air Force. FIAT G91 was a close support light STOL fighter-bomber, with some recce capabilities despite its not optimal flight...

I read long time ago in Armies & Weapons the prototype of the SP-70, a cancelled self propelled howitzer but nothing on the web. Do you have something about it ? ;D

Dear All, did you have any useful information about the Italian SLBM Alfa missile? It was developed during '60s, when Italy had some nuclear ambition (see nuclare submarine project named "Guglielmo Marconi", or the logistic ship named "Enrico Fermi") and was designed and produced by SNIA BPD...

I've gathered some information on an air-to-air missile that was built in Italy in the late 1950s or early 1960s under the C-7 designation. Reportedly it was tested on Italian air force's F-86 Sabres but was never adopted. Here is the only photo (or drawing) of the missile that is available on...

(I wasn't sure if this should be included under the Horizon thread, as there were at least 8 projects between Type 42 and Type 45 in the UK alone, let alone any other nations, and Horizon was just one of those) (Note that the image is resized by the forum code and is actually 994 * 582...

Early UK concept and French concept.

Discussing the CC.2 in the Campini projects thread, the talk went on the Re.2007, a notorious fake. Since there is some interest in this and it seems that the "fekeness" ot the Re.2007 is not widely aknowledged, I give here a (somewhat lenghty explanation). Since we are in Secret projects, I...

1976 BAe projects