- Silver Wings is a Polish manufacturer that has released many high quality resin kits.
- It's not cheap by any means, but it's an aircraft modeler's coveted kit with great detail and part accuracy to match.
- The kit consists of 84 resin parts and 1 clear resin part, and comes with 3 types of markings (Italian type, Spanish 2 types).
- A true super kit with lots of content.
- The Macchi M.41bis is an Italian combat flying boat that first flew in 1929 and is an improved production version of the 1927 prototype M.41 combat flying boat.
- In 1927 Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) held a competition for a successor to the Macchi M.7ter flying boat fighter, in response to which Macchi developed the M.41 based on the M.26 design.
- The M.41 was a wooden single-seat, single-engine biplane armed with two 7.7mm machine guns.
- The engine was a 420 horsepower Fiat A.20 mounted between the fuselage and the upper wing, and a pusher type propeller was installed at the rear.
- In the 1927 competition, the M.41 and SIAI S.58 bis competed, but neither was adopted, and in the competition held again in 1929, Macchi Corporation improved the M.41 radiator etc. with the M.41bis. A contract for 41 aircraft was signed between Macchi and Regia Marina with better results than the competing SIAI S.58 ter.
- Regia Marina began operating the M.41bis from 1930, and was installed in the Trent class, Zara class heavy cruiser, Alberto di Giussano class light cruiser, and was also deployed in the surface fighter squadron and IMAM in 1938. It continued to operate on the front lines until it was converted to a Ro.44 seaplane.
( This is a machine translation. Please allow for possible misinterpretations in the text. )