Dora Wings 72020 1/72 Savoia-Marchetti S.55 Torpedo Bomber

This is a plastic model kit, which comes unassembled and unpainted. So glue, model paints and other basic modelling tools are additionally required.

Kit contains PE and resin parts as well as paint mask. 

Savoia-Marchetti P. 55 was a double-hulled high-wing flying boat, which was first flown in 1924. About 240 aircraft of this type were built in the course of serial production. The plane was 16.5 meters long with a wingspan of 24 meters. The drive was provided by 2 Isotta Fraschini Asso A500 engines up to 500 HP each or A550 with 880 HP each. The top speed was 205 km / h. The deck armament consisted of four 7.7 mm machine guns. The machine could carry a load of bombs or torpedoes weighing up to 700 kilograms.

Savoia-Marchetti S.55 was developed for the needs of the Italian military aviation (owned by Regia Aeronautica). It was distinguished by several unusual design solutions, including the use of a double-hull structure and the placement of the pilot's cabin between the hulls. Equally unusual was the use of in-line motors and counter-rotating propellers with one pushing and the other pulling propeller. However, the plane turned out to be an extremely successful construction, which was distinguished above all by a very long flight range. Savoia-Marchetti S.55, moreover, made the history of aviation in the 1920s, establishing a dozen or so flight duration and altitude records in the 1920s, and the famous Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo, piloting such a machine, went down in the history of aviation, crossing the South Atlantic or making a flight its swimming pool and covering a distance of more than 45,000 kilometers!