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I don't recognize this trimotor?

 

Anything that ungainly, and with such a crappy wooden fence, leads me to suggest Italian on Lake Coumo!  I have a mostly complete an Italian Air Force 50th anniversary set of litographs but have not seen anything so ugly!  Maybe fate stole this monstrosity out of my portfolio.

 

By the way, one of the survivors in the portfolio was the "Three Blind Mice" airplane that Benito Mussolino's son used to set the Rome to New York translantic speed record [without removing its machine guns.]

 

It still had the guns in the rear facing open cockpit area.

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"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

 

Charles Caleb Colton

 

 

Yeah, but ours appears to have a gold infused canopy, so that should reduce the perceived Radar Cross Section [RCS]!  Rumor has it that the F117 originally had an unexpectedly large RCS due to the pilot's helmet and skull.  Suitable windsceeen appliques resulted in what Aviation Week stated was the RCS of a Sparrow!

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I don't recognize this trimotor?

 

 

Anything that ungainly, and with such a crappy wooden fence, leads me to suggest Italian on Lake Coumo!  I have a mostly complete an Italian Air Force 50th anniversary set of litographs but have not seen anything so ugly!  Maybe fate stole this monstrosity out of my portfolio.

 

By the way, one of the survivors in the portfolio was the "Three Blind Mice" airplane that Benito Mussolino's son used to set the Rome to New York translantic speed record [without removing its machine guns.]

 

It still had the guns in the rear facing open cockpit area.

 

 

 

Information from an aviation fan friend is his guess it's a De Havilland Hercules DH66.

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