Two aircrafts or only an aircraft? A detail of one of most unusual aircraft of Italian design: the “twin fuselage” Savoia-Marchetti SM.92 designed by Alessandro Marchetti as heavy fighter/attack plane powered by two Daimler Benz DB.605A engines 1,475 HP on takeoff each. Vergiate, late 1943. Victor Sierra

Two or only an aircraft?

Macchi MC.205 “Veltro” (a “true” MC.205, note the two wing 20mm cannons) of Italian Air Force’s 51st Stormo on maintenance near a Southern Italy airstrip during the Co-belligerence with the Allies. After the Armistice, 8 September 1943, the Regia Aeronautica salvaged 37 MC.205 in part of the 4th Stormo, at Pescara and on Apulia’s airfields, and in part of the 51st Stormo on the Sardinia’s airfield. Another some twenty MC.202’s airframes was converted in MC.205 replacing the DB.601 engine with the DB.205 salvaged from Italian and German wrecks. All this planes was employed over the Balkans for close air support an and escort missions and in 1944 some of these was replaced by Spitfire V and Bell P-39. Victor Sierra

Maintenance open air

Detail of the Savoia-Marchetti SM.92’s left engine and undercarriage. Victor Sierra