Scale Modeling and Military History
Photographs taken at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.
Part II here: https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2020/07/19/macchi-mc-200-saetta-lightning-walk-around-details/
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Very nice, Jeff! 🙂 Takes me back to my childhood when I built the Airfix kit of it!
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I think it’s one of the more interesting aircraft at the NMUSAF, but they’ve got it jammed in under the wing of the B-24 which makes it hard to get a good look at either plane.
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Under-powered, and Butt ugly; not one of their better designs. What are those tear drop bulges around the engine nacelle?
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Those cover the valve rockers on top of the engine cylinders. It was a fairly common way to design cowlings during the 1930’s but must have been expensive to produce.
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Long a fan of all things Macchi – and love these pics! I was at the museum last summer but my lowly cell phone camera could not overcome the atrocious dark lighting in the place.
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The lighting’s bad and many of the aircraft are jammed together so tight you can’t get a good look at them. The Macchi is under the wing of the B-24 IIRC.
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