Table of Contents
164 relations: Adriano Visconti, Advance airfield, Aerial reconnaissance, Aermacchi, Aerospace engineering, Air Force Cross (United Kingdom), Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia, Alfa Romeo, Alloy, Antenna (radio), Armistice of Cassibile, Autorotation (fixed-wing aircraft), Battle of Bir Hakeim, Bell P-39 Airacobra, Borovo, Croatia, Bracciano, Breda, Breda-SAFAT machine gun, Bronze Medal of Military Valor, Campoformido, CANT Z.1007 Alcione, Caproni Ca.311, Celestino Rosatelli, Clive Caldwell, Compressibility, Croatian Air Force Legion, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, Cyrenaica, Daimler-Benz DB 601, Daimler-Benz DB 605, Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom), Dogfight, Don (river), Donetsk, Eastern Front (World War II), Egyptian Air Force, El Alamein, Erwin Rommel, Fiat A.74, Fiat BR.20 Cicogna, Fiat CR.32, Fiat CR.42 Falco, Fiat G.50 Freccia, Fiat G.55 Centauro, Fighter aircraft, Flap (aeronautics), Flying ace, Franco Bordoni, Franco Lucchini, Freeman Army Airfield, ... Expand index (114 more) »
- 1940s Italian fighter aircraft
- World War II Italian fighter aircraft
Adriano Visconti
Major Adriano Visconti di Lampugnano (11 November 1915 – 29 April 1945) was one of Italy's top flying aces of the Second World War, during which he shot down between 10 and 26 enemy aircraft.
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Advance airfield
Advance airfield and forward airfield are military terms for a relatively primitive ad-hoc airfield used for refueling and re-arming air units as part of forward operations near the enemy.
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Aerial reconnaissance
Aerial reconnaissance is reconnaissance for a military or strategic purpose that is conducted using reconnaissance aircraft.
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Aermacchi
Aermacchi was an Italian aircraft manufacturer.
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Aerospace engineering
Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft.
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Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)
The Air Force Cross (AFC) is a military decoration awarded to officers, and since 1993 other ranks, of the British Armed Forces, and formerly also to officers of the other Commonwealth countries.
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Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia
The Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia (Zrakoplovstvo Nezavisne Države Hrvatske; ZNDH), was the air force of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a puppet state established with the support of the Axis Powers on the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during World War II.
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Alfa Romeo
Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian luxury carmaker known for its sports-oriented vehicles, strong auto racing heritage, and iconic design.
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Alloy
An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described.
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Antenna (radio)
In radio engineering, an antenna (American English) or aerial (British English) is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver.
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Armistice of Cassibile
The Armistice of Cassibile was an armistice that was signed on 3 September 1943 between Italy and the Allies during World War II.
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Autorotation (fixed-wing aircraft)
For fixed-wing aircraft, autorotation is the tendency of an aircraft in or near a stall to roll spontaneously to the right or left, leading to a spin (a state of continuous autorotation).
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Battle of Bir Hakeim
The Battle of Bir Hakeim took place at Bir Hakeim, an oasis in the Libyan desert south and west of Tobruk, during the Battle of Gazala (26 May – 21 June 1942).
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Bell P-39 Airacobra
The Bell P-39 Airacobra is a fighter produced by Bell Aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
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Borovo, Croatia
Borovo (Борово, Boró, Worow), also known as Borovo Selo (Борово Село;; to distinguish it from Borovo Naselje suburb which up until 1980 was also a part of the Borovo cadastral municipality), is a village and a municipality in Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern part of Croatia.
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Bracciano
Bracciano is a small town in the Italian region of Lazio, northwest of Rome.
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Breda
Breda is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant.
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Breda-SAFAT machine gun
Breda-SAFAT (Società Italiana Ernesto Breda per Costruzioni Meccaniche / Breda Meccanica Bresciana - Società Anonima Fabbrica Armi Torino) was an Italian weapons manufacturer of the 1930s and 1940s that designed and produced a range of machine-guns and cannon primarily for use in aircraft.
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Bronze Medal of Military Valor
The Bronze Medal of Military Valor (Medaglia di bronzo al valor militare) is an Italian medal for gallantry.
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Campoformido
Campoformido (archaically Campoformio; Cjampfuarmit) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, north-eastern Italy, with a population of 7743 (December 2019).
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CANT Z.1007 Alcione
The CANT Z.1007 Alcione (Kingfisher) was an Italian three-engined medium bomber, with wooden structure.
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Caproni Ca.311
The Caproni Ca.311 was a light bomber-reconnaissance aircraft produced in Italy prior to and during World War II.
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Celestino Rosatelli
Celestino Rosatelli (8 April 1885 – 23 September 1945) was an Italian aeronautics engineer.
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Clive Caldwell
Clive Robertson Caldwell, (28 July 1911 – 5 August 1994) was the leading Australian air ace of World War II.
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Compressibility
In thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, the compressibility (also known as the coefficient of compressibility or, if the temperature is held constant, the isothermal compressibility) is a measure of the instantaneous relative volume change of a fluid or solid as a response to a pressure (or mean stress) change.
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Croatian Air Force Legion
The Croatian Air Force Legion (Hrvatska Zrakoplovna Legija), or HZL, was a unit of the Luftwaffe, composed entirely of volunteers drawn from the nazi puppet-state, the Independent State of Croatia.
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Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk is an American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter-bomber that first flew in 1938.
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Cyrenaica
Cyrenaica or Kyrenaika (Barqah, Kurēnaïkḗ, after the city of Cyrene), is the eastern region of Libya.
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Daimler-Benz DB 601
The Daimler-Benz DB 601 was a German aircraft engine that was built during World War II.
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Daimler-Benz DB 605
The Daimler-Benz DB 605 is a German aircraft engine built during World War II.
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Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
The Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers, and since 1993 to other ranks, of the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and other services, and formerly to officers of other Commonwealth countries, for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying in active operations against the enemy".
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Dogfight
A dogfight, or dog fight, is an aerial battle between fighter aircraft conducted at close range.
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Don (river)
The Don (p) is the fifth-longest river in Europe.
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Donetsk
Donetsk (Донецьк; Донецк), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic.
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Eastern Front (World War II)
The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.
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Egyptian Air Force
The Egyptian Air Force (EAF), is the aviation branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces that is responsible for all airborne defence missions and operates all military aircraft, including those used in support of the Egyptian Army, Egyptian Navy and the Egyptian Air Defense Forces.
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El Alamein
El Alamein (lit) is a town in the northern Matrouh Governorate of Egypt.
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Erwin Rommel
Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) during World War II.
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Fiat A.74
The Fiat A.74 was a two-row, fourteen-cylinder, air-cooled radial engine produced in Italy in the 1930s as a powerplant for aircraft.
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Fiat BR.20 Cicogna
The Fiat BR.20 Cicogna was a low-wing twin-engine medium bomber that was developed and manufactured by Italian aircraft company Fiat.
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Fiat CR.32
The Fiat CR.32 was an Italian biplane fighter used in the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. Macchi C.202 Folgore and Fiat CR.32 are world War II Italian fighter aircraft.
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Fiat CR.42 Falco
The Fiat CR.42 Falco (Falcon, plural: Falchi) is a single-seat sesquiplane fighter developed and produced by Italian aircraft manufacturer Fiat Aviazione. Macchi C.202 Folgore and Fiat CR.42 Falco are world War II Italian fighter aircraft.
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Fiat G.50 Freccia
The Fiat G.50 Freccia (“Arrow”) was a World War II Italian fighter aircraft that was developed and manufactured by the aviation company Fiat. Macchi C.202 Folgore and Fiat G.50 Freccia are world War II Italian fighter aircraft.
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Fiat G.55 Centauro
The Fiat G.55 Centauro (Italian: "Centaur") was a single-engine single-seat World War II fighter aircraft used by the Regia Aeronautica and the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana in 1943–1945. Macchi C.202 Folgore and Fiat G.55 Centauro are 1940s Italian fighter aircraft and world War II Italian fighter aircraft.
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Fighter aircraft
Fighter aircraft (early on also pursuit aircraft) are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat.
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Flap (aeronautics)
A flap is a high-lift device used to reduce the stalling speed of an aircraft wing at a given weight.
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Flying ace
A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat.
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Franco Bordoni
Franco Bordoni-Bisleri (10 January 1913 – 15 September 1975) was an Italian aviator and racing car driver.
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Franco Lucchini
Franco Lucchini, MOVM, (24 December 1914 – 5 July 1943) was an Italian World War II fighter pilot in the Aviazione Legionaria and in the Regia Aeronautica.
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Freeman Army Airfield
Freeman Army Airfield is an inactive United States Army Air Forces base.
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Furio Niclot Doglio
Furio Niclot Doglio, MOVM (24 April 1908 – 27 July 1942) was an Italian test pilot and World War II fighter pilot in the Regia Aeronautica.
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Fuselage
The fuselage (from the French fuselé "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section.
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Gammarth
Gammarth (ڨمرت) is a town on the Mediterranean Sea in the Tunis Governorate of Tunisia, located some 15 to 20 kilometres north of Tunis, adjacent to La Marsa.
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George Beurling
George Frederick "Buzz" Beurling, (6 December 1921 – 20 May 1948) was the most successful Canadian fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War.
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Gorizia
Gorizia (Gorica), colloquially stara Gorica 'old Gorizia' to distinguish it from Nova Gorica (Gurize, Guriza; Gorisia; Görz), is a town and comune (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
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Guidonia Montecelio
Guidonia Montecelio, commonly known as Guidonia, is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Lazio, central Italy.
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Hawker Hurricane
The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1930s–40s which was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd.
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Hydraulics
Hydraulics is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids.
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IAR 80
The IAR 80 was a Romanian World War II low-wing monoplane, all-metal monocoque fighter and ground-attack aircraft.
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Ilyushin Il-2
The Ilyushin Il-2 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-2) is a ground-attack plane that was produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers during the Second World War.
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Independent State of Croatia
The Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) was a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
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Indiana
Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Isotta Fraschini Asso XI
The Asso XI was a family of water-cooled, supercharged V12 piston aeroengines produced in the 1930s by Italian manufacturer Isotta Fraschini, and fitted on a number of aircraft types built by CANT, Caproni and others.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
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Italian Air Force
The Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare; AM) is the air force of the Italian Republic.
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Italian Air Force Museum
The Italian Air Force Museum is an aircraft museum at Vigna di Valle, on Lake Bracciano (Lazio), in central Italy.
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Italian Co-belligerent Air Force
The Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force (Aviazione Cobelligerante Italiana, or ACI), or Air Force of the South (Aeronautica del Sud), was the air force of the Royalist "Badoglio government" in Southern Italy during the last years of World War II.
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Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
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Italian Social Republic
The Italian Social Republic (Repubblica Sociale Italiana,; RSI), known prior to December 1943 as the National Republican State of Italy (Stato Nazionale Repubblicano d'Italia; SNRI), but more popularly known as the Republic of Salò (Repubblica di Salò), was a German Fascist puppet state with limited diplomatic recognition that was created during the latter part of World War II.
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Jagdgeschwader 77
Jagdgeschwader 77 (JG 77) Herz As ("Ace of Hearts") was a Luftwaffe fighter wing during World War II.
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Joule
The joule (pronounced, or; symbol: J) is the unit of energy in the International System of Units (SI).
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Junkers Ju 52
The Junkers Ju 52/3m (nicknamed Tante Ju ("Aunt Ju") and Iron Annie) is a transport aircraft that was designed and manufactured by German aviation company Junkers.
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Kawasaki Ki-61
The Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien (飛燕, "flying swallow") is a Japanese World War II fighter aircraft.
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Kingdom of Italy
The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June 1946.
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Korba, Tunisia
Korba (قربة), ancient Curubis, is a town in Tunisia on the eastern shore of the Cap Bon.
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Landing gear
Landing gear is the undercarriage of an aircraft or spacecraft that is used for taxiing, takeoff or landing.
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Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3
The Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 (Лавочкин-Горбунов-Гудков ЛаГГ-3) was a Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II.
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Leonardo Ferrulli
Leonardo Ferrulli (1 January 1918 – 5 July 1943) was an ace of the Regia Aeronautica, and a recipient of the Medaglia d'Oro al Valor Militare (Gold Medal of Military Valor).
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Licensed production
Licensed production is the production under license of technology developed elsewhere.
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Lira
Lira is the name of several currency units.
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List of aircraft of World War II
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all the aircraft used by those countries which were at war during World War from the period between their joining the conflict and the conflict ending for them.
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List of fighter aircraft
Fighter aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-air combat.
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List of Regia Aeronautica aircraft used in World War II
A list of aircraft used by Italy during World War II until its capitulation to the Allies in September 1943.
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Livorno
Livorno is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of the Tuscany region, Italy.
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Lockheed P-38 Lightning
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is an American single-seat, twin piston-engined fighter aircraft that was used during World War II.
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Lonate Pozzolo
Lonate Pozzolo is a town and comune located in the province of Varese, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.
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Longeron
In engineering, a longeron or stringer is a load-bearing component of a framework.
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Lučko
Lučko is a settlement in the Novi Zagreb - zapad district of the city of Zagreb, located south of the Sava and southwest of the city center.
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Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II.
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Luhansk
Luhansk (Луганськ), also known as Lugansk (Луганск), is a city in the Donbas region, eastern Ukraine.
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Luigi Gorrini
Luigi Gorrini, MOVM (12 July 1917 – 8 November 2014), was an Italian World War II fighter pilot in the Regia Aeronautica and in the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana.
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M2 Browning
The M2 machine gun or Browning.50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") is a heavy machine gun that was designed near the end of World War I by John Browning.
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Macchi C.200 Saetta
The Macchi C.200 Saetta (Italian: "Lightning"), or MC.200, was a fighter aircraft developed and manufactured by Aeronautica Macchi in Italy. Macchi C.202 Folgore and Macchi C.200 Saetta are Macchi aircraft and world War II Italian fighter aircraft.
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Macchi C.205 Veltro
The Macchi C.205 Veltro (Greyhound) (also known as MC.205, "MC" standing for "Macchi Castoldi") was an Italian World War II fighter aircraft built by the Aeronautica Macchi. Macchi C.202 Folgore and Macchi C.205 Veltro are 1940s Italian fighter aircraft, Macchi aircraft and world War II Italian fighter aircraft.
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Macchi M.C.72
The Macchi M.C. 72 is an experimental floatplane designed and built by the Italian aircraft company Macchi Aeronautica. Macchi C.202 Folgore and Macchi M.C.72 are Macchi aircraft.
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Maiden flight
The maiden flight, also known as first flight, of an aircraft is the first occasion on which it leaves the ground under its own power.
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Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Man-hour
A man-hour or human-hour is the amount of work performed by the average worker in one hour.
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Mario Castoldi
Mario Castoldi (February 26, 1888 – May 31, 1968) was an Italian aircraft engineer and designer.
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Marmarica
Marmarica in ancient geography was a littoral area in Ancient Libya, located between Cyrenaica and Aegyptus.
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Messerschmitt Bf 109
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was, along with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, the backbone of the Luftwaffe's fighter force.
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MG 131 machine gun
The MG 131 (shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 131, or "machine gun 131") was a German 13 mm caliber machine gun developed in 1938 by Rheinmetall-Borsig and produced from 1940 to 1945.
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1 (Микоян-Гуревич МиГ-1) was a Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II that was designed to meet a requirement for a high-altitude fighter issued in 1939.
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Milan
Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
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Millerovo
Millerovo (Миллерово) is the name of several inhabited localities in Rostov Oblast, Russia.
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Monocoque
Monocoque, also called structural skin, is a structural system in which loads are supported by an object's external skin, in a manner similar to an egg shell.
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NACA airfoil
The NACA airfoil series is a set of standardized airfoil shapes developed by this agency, which became widely used in the design of aircraft wings.
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National Air and Space Museum
The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States, dedicated to human flight and space exploration.
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National Republican Air Force
The National Republican Air Force (Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana, ANR) was the air force of the Italian Social Republic, a World War II German puppet state in Italy.
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Niš
Niš (Ниш,; names in other languages), less often spelled in English as Nish, is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District.
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North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
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Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.
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Operation Crusader
Operation Crusader (18 November – 30 December 1941) was a military operation of the Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War by the British Eighth Army (with Commonwealth, Indian and Allied contingents) against the Axis forces (German and Italian) in North Africa commanded by Generalleutnant (Lieutenant-General) Erwin Rommel.
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Operation Harpoon (1942)
Operation Harpoon was one of two simultaneous Allied convoys sent to supply Malta in the Axis-dominated central Mediterranean Sea in mid-June 1942, during the Second World War.
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Operation Herkules
Operation Herkules (Unternehmen Herkules; Operazione C3) was the German code-name given to an abortive plan for the invasion of Malta during the Second World War.
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Oxygen mask
An oxygen mask is a mask that provides a method to transfer breathing oxygen gas from a storage tank to the lungs.
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Pantelleria
Pantelleria (Sicilian: Pantiḍḍirìa), known in ancient times as Cossyra or Cossura, is an Italian island and comune in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, southwest of Sicily and east of the Tunisian coast.
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Passignano sul Trasimeno
Passignano sul Trasimeno is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region of Umbria, located about 20 km northwest of Perugia.
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Petlyakov Pe-2
The Petlyakov Pe-2 (Петляков Пе-2 — nickname «Пешка» (Pawn); NATO reporting name: Buck) was a Soviet twin-engine dive bomber used during World War II.
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Prototype
A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process.
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Radar
Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.
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Radial engine
The radial engine is a reciprocating type internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinders "radiate" outward from a central crankcase like the spokes of a wheel.
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Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.
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Reggiane
Officine Meccaniche Reggiane SpA (commonly referred to as Reggiane) was an Italian industrial manufacturer and aviation company.
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Reggiane Re.2000 Falco I
The Reggiane Re.2000 Falco I was an Italian all metal, low-wing monoplane developed and manufactured by aircraft company Reggiane. Macchi C.202 Folgore and Reggiane Re.2000 Falco I are world War II Italian fighter aircraft.
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Reggiane Re.2001 Falco II
The Reggiane Re.2001 Falco II was an Italian fighter aircraft, serving in the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Air Force) during World War II. Macchi C.202 Folgore and Reggiane Re.2001 Falco II are 1940s Italian fighter aircraft and world War II Italian fighter aircraft.
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Reggio Calabria
Reggio di Calabria (Riggiu; Rìji), commonly and officially referred to as Reggio Calabria, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, is the largest city in Calabria as well as the seat of the Regional Council of Calabria.
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Regia Aeronautica
The Royal Italian Air Force (Regia Aeronautica Italiana) (RAI) was the air force of the Kingdom of Italy.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
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SAI Ambrosini
SAI Ambrosini was an Italian aircraft manufacturer.
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Saky
Saky (Ukrainian and Саки; Saq) is a city in Crimea.
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Sardinia
Sardinia (Sardegna; Sardigna) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy.
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Schneider Trophy
The Coupe d'Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider, also known as the Schneider Trophy, Schneider Prize or (incorrectly) the Schneider Cup is a trophy that was awarded first annually, and later biennially, to the winner of a race for seaplanes and flying boats.
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Self-sealing fuel tank
A self-sealing fuel tank is a type of fuel tank, typically used in aircraft fuel tanks or fuel bladders, that prevents them from leaking fuel and igniting after being damaged.
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Serbia
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.
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Sfax
Sfax (Ṣafāqis) is a city in Tunisia, located southeast of Tunis.
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Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
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Siege of Malta (World War II)
The Siege of Malta in World War II was a military campaign in the Mediterranean theatre.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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Società Italiana Ernesto Breda
Società Italiana Ernesto Breda, more usually referred to simply as Breda, was an Italian mechanical manufacturing company founded by Ernesto Breda in Milan in 1886.
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Soviet Air Forces
The Soviet Air Forces (r, VVS SSSR; literally "Military Air Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"; initialism VVS, sometimes referred to as the "Red Air Force", were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces were formed from components of the Imperial Russian Air Service in 1917, and faced their greatest test during World War II.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Special Air Service
The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army.
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Supercharger
In an internal combustion engine, a supercharger compresses the intake gas, forcing more air into the engine in order to produce more power for a given displacement.
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Supermarine Spitfire
The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
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Tailplane
A tailplane, also known as a horizontal stabilizer, is a small lifting surface located on the tail (empennage) behind the main lifting surfaces of a fixed-wing aircraft as well as other non-fixed-wing aircraft such as helicopters and gyroplanes.
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Teresio Vittorio Martinoli
Teresio Vittorio Martinoli, MOVM, (26 March 1917 – 25 August 1944) was an Italian World War II fighter pilot in the Regia Aeronautica and in the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force (ICBAF).
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Tobruk
Tobruk or Tobruck (Ἀντίπυργος, Antipyrgos; Antipyrgus; Tobruch; Ṭubruq; also transliterated as Tobruch and Tubruk) is a port city on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt.
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Torque
In physics and mechanics, torque is the rotational analogue of linear force.
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Udine
Udine (Udin; Utinum; Videm) is a city and comune (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Carnic Alps.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Army Air Forces
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II (1941–1947).
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Varese
Varese (or; Varés; Baretium; archaic Väris) is a city and comune in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, north-west of Milan.
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Variable-pitch propeller (aeronautics)
In aeronautics, a variable-pitch propeller is a type of propeller (airscrew) with blades that can be rotated around their long axis to change the blade pitch.
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Vertical stabilizer
A vertical stabilizer or tail fin is the static part of the vertical tail of an aircraft.
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Vickers machine gun
The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled.303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army.
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Volgograd
Volgograd (p), formerly Tsaritsyn (label) (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (label) (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and largest city of Croatia.
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Zaprešić
Zaprešić is a town in Hrvatsko zagorje, Zagreb County in Croatia.
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Zemun
Zemun (Земун,; Zimony) is a municipality in the city of Belgrade, Serbia.
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1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war.
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See also
1940s Italian fighter aircraft
- Ambrosini SAI.207
- Ambrosini SAI.403
- Caproni Ca.331
- Caproni Campini Ca.183bis
- Caproni Vizzola F.4
- Caproni Vizzola F.6
- Fiat G.55 Centauro
- Macchi C.202 Folgore
- Macchi C.205 Veltro
- Piaggio P.119
- Reggiane Re.2001 Falco II
- Reggiane Re.2002 Ariete
- Reggiane Re.2004
- Reggiane Re.2005 Sagittario
- Reggiane Re.2006
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.91
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.92
World War II Italian fighter aircraft
- Caproni Vizzola F.4
- Caproni Vizzola F.5
- Caproni Vizzola F.6
- Fiat CR.32
- Fiat CR.42 Falco
- Fiat G.50 Freccia
- Fiat G.55 Centauro
- IMAM Ro.44
- IMAM Ro.57
- IMAM Ro.58
- Macchi C.200 Saetta
- Macchi C.202 Folgore
- Macchi C.205 Veltro
- Piaggio P.119
- Reggiane Re.2000 Falco I
- Reggiane Re.2001 Falco II
- Reggiane Re.2002 Ariete
- Reggiane Re.2005 Sagittario
- Reggiane Re.2006
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.88
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.91
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.92
References
Also known as Aeronautica Macchi C.202 Folgore, C.202, C.202 Folgore, MC. 202, MC.202, Macchi 202, Macchi C. 202, Macchi C.202, Macchi Folgore, Macchi M.C.202, Macchi M.C.202 Folgore, Macchi MC Folgore, Macchi MC.202.