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unusual facts about IMAM Ro.58


IMAM Ro.58

More heavily armed than its predecessor, with five forward-firing MG 151s; three in the nose and two under the belly (the underbelly guns were not present during the first flight tests) and one 12.7 mm rear-facing Breda-SAFAT machine gun.


IMAM Ro.41

Three of these machines formed the first acrobatic team of the Aeronautica Militare in 1947 at Padua.

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Armament, when fitted, consisted of two 7.7 mm Breda-SAFAT machine guns mounted inside the fuselage, with 850 cartridges.

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Strangely no examples remained in Southern Italy, perhaps because flight schools, like Castiglione del Lago airfield, were in the central and northern Italy.


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