Making a splash

[emfrat]

A satisfactory one too, except I was aiming for the Beehive. Need to check the bomb dynamics - they seem a bit sudden

[Ian Warren]

Snaazy Macchi , .. a real BOMB you might say

[Splitpin]

Where did you find that Mike ?
I've been looking for one of those 3 engine Italian types ... maybe there's one lurking at your source .

[Ian Warren]

The is a good SM -79 , Flightsim,com


Name: sm79_sp1.zip
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FS2004 Savoia Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero Service Pack 1 (v.02). It was the most important Italian bomber of World War II. This tough three-engined aircraft established a reputation that contrasted with most Italian weapons of the day. SM.79s served widely in the normal bombing role, but it is as a land-based torpedo bomber that the type deserves its place in military aviation history. In spite of its cumbersome appearance and outdated construction, with an internal provision for 2,750 lb (1,250 kg) of bombs, supplemented by under fuselage rack for a torpedo, the S.M.79 was a rugged, reliable multi-role medium bomber which did quite a bit of damage in the face of heavy opposition. About 1300 production models were built over a nine year period. The SM.79 had a distinctive 'hump' on the upper forward fuselage, which housed both the fixed forward-firing heavy machine-gun and the dorsal gunner's position. Its appearance earned the aircraft the nickname 'Gobbo Maledetto' ('Damned Hunchback'). During the last phases of the war the surviving SM.79s were converted into various versions of utility transports and used in that role until 1952. Includes four upgraded plus one new hi-res Gmax models (five different versions) featuring the usual moving parts, such as all flight controls, props pitch and leading edge flaps. Eleven different liveries (six R.A., one A.N.R., one I.C.A.F., one post-war A.M.I., two Spanish Nationalist Air Force). VC only. Created by Manuele Villa & ItalianWings.

[Splitpin]

Cheers .... will check it out.
Those Italians came out with some interesting stuff no question.

[emfrat]

Where did you find that Mike ?
I've been looking for one of those 3 engine Italian types ... maybe there's one lurking at your source .

Cheers Marty
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26724&p=8390736#p8390758

And as Ian has already pointed out, Manuele Villa is your man for the tri-motors . Search on his name in the FSX section at flightsim.

[Splitpin]

thanks Mike ... i did read your post . Brain fade

[emfrat]

Cheers .... will check it out.
Those Italians came out with some interesting stuff no question.

In the late 1920s and the 1930s, Italy was very much in the forefront of aircraft design, thanks to Mussolini being a great aviation enthusiast. When Bert Hinkler (a Queenslander, who flew from England to Oz "with a school atlas and a sixpenny compass") crashed on a mountainside in Italy in 1933, Mussolini gave him a state funeral, and a monument was built. A couple of years back, the Hinkler Museum folk went to the site, spoke to the old shepherd who as a boy had found Hinkler's body some 80m away from the larger of the two pieces of his wrecked plane, and identified the precise location. The RAAF became involved, and a large lump of basalt from the beach at Bundaberg where Bert had done many experiments with gliders and so on, was transported to Italy and placed in the exact spot, to be sculptured into a real memorial. History never stops.

[Ian Warren]

Amazing so many aviation pioneers perished in that decade.

[emfrat]

Amazing so many aviation pioneers perished in that decade.

Yes, but pioneers push the envelope. I had a lucky find last month in my favourite second hand bookshop - Smith and Ulm's account of their Trans-Pacific crossing. Gives a very good picture of how the Dole Race set things back, with incompetent fliers being allowed to enter

[Ian Warren]

with incompetent fliers being allowed to enter

Adding to that, they were pushing the very limits of their aircraft and engines, then of course the navigation and weather would another factor.