Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: GTX_Admin on August 22, 2023, 03:06:07 AM
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A thread for your Savoia Marchetti S.79 Ideas and Inspiration
(http://www.aviation-history.com/savoia-marchetti/sm79-20a.jpg)
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One I have planned for a while: A RAF Coastal Command S.79 in this sort of scheme:
(https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Wellington/Wellington-skins/images/COD-KF-Wellington-MkIc-RAF-generic-Coastal-Command-V0B.jpg)
The idea being either that Italy joins the Allies in WWII or perhaps the RAF in its urgency to build up prior to WWII acquires some S.79s (after all they did plan on buying some Caproni Ca.313s and Reggiane Re.2000s).
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Random idea: S.79 floatplane
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First thing that comes to mind would be to replace the engines in the wings with jets or turboprops & change the nose to a 7.5cm gun or a couple of 3.5cm guns for anti-shipping.
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Random idea: S.79 floatplane
Maybe a backup design for the CANT Z.506 Airone?
You could start with the twin floats from Ala Littoria's SM.87. That floatplane's SM.75 Marsupiale base airframe was heavier (and bigger) but perhaps that allows for the 'SM.79 idros' weight growth when carrying twin siluri?
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I think the SM.79CS variant would be interesting to play with.
It had uprated Piaggio engines and set some records in the pre WWII era. It also was stripped of the dorsal and ventral gun placements.
In the real world, the Junkers Ju-52 was built post-war in France and Spain. What if they opted to produce SM.79s instead and based them off the C model.
The Ju-52 was rather bigger all around, but the SM.79 was a cleaner aircraft aerodynamically with its retracting landing gear and smooth skin.
There could be some interesting re-engining options in that scenario.
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And just to be different, let's not forget the twin engined variants such as the Romanian SM.79JRs with twin Junkers Jumo 211 engines:
(https://www.armedconflicts.com/attachments/217/jrs79b_rom_3.jpg)(https://www.armedconflicts.com/attachments/217/jrs79b_rom_1.jpg)
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... There could be some interesting re-engining options in that scenario.
Hmmm ... mixing this concept with Greg's SM.79JR layout, how about a postwar, twin Merlin-powered SM.79 instead of the CASA 2.111?
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:smiley:
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The Lebanese Air Force ordered four SM.79L bomber aircraft in 1946, which were delivered in 1949 and used as military transports. These aircraft appeared in the 1954 war film They Who Dare.
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The Lebanese Air Force ordered four SM.79L bomber aircraft in 1946, which were delivered in 1949 and used as military transports. These aircraft appeared in the 1954 war film They Who Dare.
Indeed - they were attractive aircraft too:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Lebanese_sm79_haifa1.jpg/2880px-Lebanese_sm79_haifa1.jpg)
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The SM.79CS race aircraft looked cool too:
(https://plane-encyclopedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/SM79C2.png)
(https://plane-encyclopedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Savoia-Marchetti-S.M.-79-2.jpeg)