A ground crewman of checking out the area in the back of engine of a fighter aircraft Aermacchi MC.200 “Saetta”of Italian Regia Aeronautica. The photo give a good view of motor cradle of this Italian fighter. Victor Sierra

MC.200's checking

Aermacchi MC.200 "Saetta" of Italian Regia Aeronautica downgraded from fighter aircraft a trainer plane for training of new fighter pilots after coming of the MC.202. Note the white strips on the wings distinguishing the training aircrafts. Photo taken very probable at Scuola Caccia (Fighter School) of Foligno Airfield, between Spoleto and Assisi, near Perugia, Central Italy, 1942 or 1943. Victor Sierra

Fighter school

The “Spauracchio” (Scarecrow) smoking six red stars in the pipe, emblem of 22nd Gruppo Caccia on the fuselage of one of his Macchi fighters veteran of Russian campaign (the stars smoked in the pipe) like indicted by the yellow band on fuselage. Near the tail plane the hole for introduction of the lifting’s rod of the tail. Victor Sierra