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Re: Longest Grounding of a Warbird

Posted by Gregory on Tue Jan 07, 2003 06:28:59 AM

In reply top Re: Longest Grounding of a Warbird posted by Tulio on Mon Jan 06, 2003 09:41:02 PM

Tulio -

The S.55 "jahu" reached Brazil three years before Balbo. It started the flight with an Italian crew (including my wife's grandfather) but only went as far as Casablanca. It was then purchased by a Brazilian, repaired and flown across with a number of difficulties.

My understanding is that the original will be static only, with the repro flying. But there seems to be a considerable lack of funding, and the repro would be considerably re-engineered and modified. In any case, there seems to be a conspicuous lack of detailed info on this exciting program - just a photo of the restored Isotta Fraschini engine added recently to Mikael's great website and a Howard Levy photo in Flypast, showinf little progress.

Obviously I would love to contradicted.

Gregory

: Well, there is a Savoia Marchetti in Brazil, that last fle
: w in the 1930s, with General Italo Balbo and his team. It
: has been grounded for a very long time although there was
: a project called "Projeito Jahu" to bring it back to a fly
: able status, while a replica was also being built.
:
: Saludos!
:
: Tulio

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