Mechanics and technical personnel of a SRAM (Squadra Riparazioni Aerei e Motori/Repair Aircraft and Engine Team) based on an Italian airport’s workshop working around an Italian Air Force’s Macchi MC.200 fighter aircraft, lifted on the appropriate trestles to simplify the work, on overhaul. Victor Sierra

Inside the workshop

An Italian fighter Fiat CR.42 loaded, after the disassembly, perhaps after the its salvage, onto a Fiat 632 truck of the Regia Aeronautica’s 634th SRAM (Squadra Riparazioni Aerei e Motori/Repair Aircraft and Engine Team), 1941. The SRAMs, established on Thirties of XX Century and director ancestors of the today Aeronautica Militare’s RMV (Reparto Manutenzione Velivoli/Aircraft Maintenance Unit) each qualified for a particular aircraft, as the 1st RMV, Cameri Air Base, for Tornado and Eurofighter, was the fulcrum of all maintenance, overhaul and repair activities of the Italian Air Force’s aircrafts both fixed workshops on the airports and in the field. Many SRAMs wrought as Gruppi Autonomi Officine Autocarrate (Autonomous Trucker Workshop Groups) revealing itself valuable for the airplane’s salvage many times in very difficult situations close to frontline. Victor Sierra

SRAM

Two mechanics of a SRAM (Squadra Riparazioni Aerei e Motori/Repair Aircraft and Engine Team) of an Italian airport overhauling a Regia Aeronautica’s Macchi MC.200 with undercarriage extended for inspection. The workshop of this photo is the same of the previous picture. Note, for example, the mechanics on white singlet on the right which is the same which appear, all on the right, on the previous photo. Also the aircraft is the same. The almost beach and not prescribed dress of the two peoples clearing up with the high temperature reached in summer time inside the all metal hangars especially on Southern Italy (the photo was taken likely or at Lecce, Apulia, or at Comiso, Sicily). Victor Sierra