29.07.2008, 13:41
343KKT_Tomio Wrote:unfortunately this cockpit is not exactly true too:? Please, read that before writing anything... viewtopic.php?t=5883
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Serie 1 MC.200s (205 built, 99 by Macchi, 82 by Breda and 24 by SAI Ambrosini) and first planes of Serie 2, for a total amount of 240 ones until December 1940, had the enclosed sliding canopy you can see above. Many Serie 1 planes had also a retractable rear wheel, but it revealed itself as complicated and weak and it was replaced on field with the one used by further aircrafts, sometimes with a fairing, anyway later removed (if you look at landing gear lights in right panel, you'll see 3 of them). There were also other differences, but not so important.
I've already written about it, so I don't want to explain again why Italian pilots disliked this kind of cockpit.
Beginning in January 1941, cockpit was replaced on all remaining Serie 1 aircrafts with the whole 'Serie 3' one, as it was available for new planes, including that solid rear, it was anyway difficult to see behind because of synthetic glass poor quality and this newer type offered a better visibility, Serie 1 planes could be recognized between normal Serie 3 ones because they mantained rear wheel ports and part of canopy slides.
Eventually, MC.200s NEVER, I repeat NEVER, had the cockpit you can see in Oleg & Co.'s Serie 1.
Trooper117 Wrote:They are both correct in my opinion..Serie 3 like semi-enclosed canopy couldn't fit Serie 1 cockpit, because it had hinges, not slides.
Furthermore, radio equipment in Serie 1 was located under MGs, so it couldn't have an antenna like later series.
I hope to have been exhaustive and convincing, because I'm not willing to discuss 'why' I've made this mod, but 'how' I've done it. :wink: