S.74, the Aced Out Ace
There are aircraft that have a charm of their own, as if their technical and operational life followed a parabola similar to the biographical history of notable people. The S.74, the subject of this translation, was born old. The market had decreed that it was aced-out even before he had shown what it had to offer. But it still had something to show. The above painting of an S.74 is by Danilo Renzulli. The Savoia Marchetti S.74 The outclassed airplane on a class of its own By Pietro Mazzardi (translated by L. Pavese) There are aircraft that have a charm of their own, as if their technical and operational life followed a parabola similar to the biographical history of notable people. Granted, an airplane is just a machine but the S.74, designed and built by Savoia Marchetti, was a very capable aircraft and the only Italian four-engines passenger airplane that had ...