Italian Air Force Regia Aeronautica On 24 January 1923 the Italian Royal Air Force Regia Aeronautica.

Italian flying boats ww2. In WW2 its naval aviation grew a very iportant part in Europe from the attack on Taranto in November 1940 to the torpedo attack that jammed the Bismarcks rudder in May 1941 securing its doom for the allies or Patrolling the Atlantic spotting and attacking U-Boats. The two all silver seaplanes in foreground of this photo taken on 1937 three years before the Italys entry in the World War 2 are modern for this time CRDRA Cant-Z-501. Short-Mayo Composite flying boats Mercury and Maia were built in an attempt by Imperial airways to serve the transatlantic airmail route more efficiently.

Worlds largest one of a kind of all flying boats and sea planes built during WW II. The idea was to launch the heavily loaded mail plane Mercury from the back of the lightly loaded Maia after the combination had climb to cruising level. The convoy consisted of seven transports escorted by six destroyers with a distant cruiser covering force.

Name given to flying boats and seaplanes that began commercial flight service for Pan American Airlines in the 1930s. 9th - Action off Cape Spartivento Southwest Italy - RAF reports of an Italian convoy in the Ionian Sea making for North Africa led to British cruiser Force K sailing from Malta. A Patrol Bombing Squadron 52 VPB-52 PBY-5 flying boat alongside a local outrigger canoe during a rescue mission to the northwest end of McCluer Gulf.

Not quite on par with her contemporaries of World War 2 Italy nonetheless fielded a variety of useful aircraft in the conflict. Experimental Italian nine wing early flying boats and seaplanes. Behind the image is shown the Blohm Voss BV 238 was a prototype of a flying boat to be used by the Luftwaffe during the World War II for transport and long-range maritime patrols.

Strength and Organization of the Regia Aeronautica and Regia Navale when Italy enters Second World War in June 1940. The Imperial Japanese Navy made extensive use of their long range flying boats in WW II. The BV 238 was designed as a floatplane and it was intended to be the so huge to provide the German Army with additional loading capacity during WW2.

Blohm Voss BV 238. The Italian Royal Air Force Regia Aeronautica Italiana was the name of the air force of the Kingdom of ItalyIt was established as a service independent of the Royal Italian Army from 1923 until 1946. As usual in that time the wings and tailplanes were covered with fabric.