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Steven painted up some Italian planes -- they look all WWI, which I think is cool.



Link to the rest of the article: Italian CR.42 Falco biplanes!l

As an Italian player myself (EW/MW Bersaglieri), I always use the Falcos when I can for air support (points allowing of course) for the sheer chuckle of watching the enemy being bombed/strafed by early 1930's era bi-planes....lol!

Nice paint job though....perfect for NA and the Mediterranean.

Needs a guy 'wingwalking' to complete the barnstorming look! Oh and black&white the photo with photoshop

ThirdUltra wrote:
sheer chuckle of watching the enemy being bombed/strafed by early 1930's era bi-planes....lol!

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Except its first flight was 1938 and wasnt operational till 1939.

So not really early 1930s. Indeed most countries fielded similar aircraft designs. Germany had the Henschel 123 (which saw combat service till 1944) and Britain of course had the Lysander.


The Falco remained in service till 1948 with the Spanish Air Force.

Big P wrote:

ThirdUltra wrote:
sheer chuckle of watching the enemy being bombed/strafed by early 1930's era bi-planes....lol!

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Except its first flight was 1938 and wasn't operational till 1939.

So not really early 1930s. Indeed most countries fielded similar aircraft designs. Germany had the Henschel 123 (which saw combat service till 1944) and Britain of course had the Lysander.


The Falco remained in service till 1948 with the Spanish Air Force.

I apologize, I was getting them confused with the CR.32's instead which I believe were used in the Spanish Civil War at one time and were retired in 1957 by Spain's air force (originally introduced in '33-'34).

Additionally, didn't the Brits still have some of the Gloster Gladiators which I believe were roughly introduced around the same time (1937)?

They did indeed... The old stringbag did us proud.

Most famously Faith, Hope and Charity, the unofficially named Gladiators that were the island of Malta's entire air cover.

If you want stringbag air combat then look no further than Italian East Africa, where almost the entire campaign was fought with such luminaries as the Audax, the Hart, and the Gladiator, and where the CR42 was one of the most modern planes flying.