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

Overhaul and inspection

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

Tamet, near Tripoli, Libya: repair in the field of the tail wheel of an Italian Air Force’s Macchi MC.202, aircraft 81-5 of the 1st Stormo, 16th Gruppo, 81st Squadriglia. On the contrary of the work in the fixed airport workshop, in this case the personnel of the SRAM (Squadra Riparazioni Aerei e Motori/Repair Aircraft and Engine Team) working with a very ruddy equipment: note, for example, an empty fuel drum utilized for the airplane’s lift in place of trestles and jack. Victor Sierra

