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08-07-2005, 01:43 PM
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| Breda 88
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Since I just proved why it isnt making an attack, the 2nd one is logical. If I was flying a Breda 88 at 20,000ft, after several hours of brutal Italian engine acceleration, the last thing you would do is dive. In other words, you wouldnt do that on purpose. ITS CRASHING!
| Breda 88 was operatively and from any other point of view a poor aircraft but ,strange to say,in 1938 it got a world record in maximum medium speed with load at 100-200 Km......
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1)If you have a dragster projected for the maximum speed and acceleration along 1 Km( more, with an unreliable engine for the poor quality of the steel alloys available) , you paint it with mimetic camouflage and a bull-bar and you try to run an african rally of 1000 Km don't get surprised when it is stopped by 2 cm of gravel.
2)Breda factories had built exclusively light weapons, flamethrowers, hand grenades ,heavy tractors up t0 year 1935, when they suddently and inexplicably shifted to aircrafts,only with a experience of guns,grenades ,flamethrowers etc etc.With this poor aeronautical background they immediately won two public competitions for an assault aircraft ( breda Ba-65 and, later, Ba 8  over other italian industries that had built aircrafts since 1914! I am still wondering the reason why all this happened, but the fact that king Vittorio Emanuele III and Savoia family were among the main owners of Breda industries seems quite suspect.......
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08-07-2005, 01:49 PM
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Country:  | Yeah, the 88 was good prior to being equipped with weapons, armour et al, but if we're talking operational then it just plain sucked. 
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08-18-2005, 01:07 PM
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08-18-2005, 01:16 PM
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Its better if they look good - if they fly well, that's better! 
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08-18-2005, 01:36 PM
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08-18-2005, 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by mosquitoman Yeah, but the Breda 88 didn't even look good! | Ya know you're right! It didn't look good, it didn't fly well, I wonder what it smelled like?
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08-18-2005, 01:39 PM
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08-18-2005, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by mosquitoman Oil, coolant and petrol? |
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08-22-2005, 06:36 AM
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08-22-2005, 12:13 PM
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08-22-2005, 01:57 PM
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08-22-2005, 02:36 PM
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08-22-2005, 02:39 PM
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08-22-2005, 02:45 PM
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08-22-2005, 03:11 PM
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