Build your own Flying Aces Club Jumbo Scale competition aircraftBy Mark FinemanPhotos by the authorAs seen in the July 2012 Model Aviation.By the late 1930s, Italy held many world aviation records, most famously the absolute world speed record for seaplanes with the Macchi MC.72. Yet the country’s vainglorious dictator, Benito Mussolini, wanted more, particularly sport airplane records, then held primarily by Germany. Engineer Pierre Luigi Nardi designed an unusual twin-fuselage light aircraft to be powered by two inverted Alfa Romeo 115 engines, built by the Bestetti firm, and…
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