MC.202 Folgore "Thunderbolt" Royal Air Force pilots of the 23rd Fighter

pilots of the 23rd Fighter Group

Boeing's B-29 Superfortress was the most sophisticated

On the airplane's ninth flight

the airplane was one of America's major deterrents to aggression by a potential enemy

Whitney TF3O-P-6 turbofan engine

MC.202 Folgore "Thunderbolt" Royal Air Force pilots of the 23rd FighterMC. 202 Thunderbolt Folgore airplane model. Mario Castoldi hand been convinced from the earliest days of the MC. 200 flight testing that full potential of the design would be achieved only by the installation of and inline engine. This opinion was confirmed during August 1940 when the prototype Macchi MC. 202 (MM 445) was tested with an imported Daimler Benz DB 601A 1 engine. The prototype was first flown on 10 August 1940, and its initial trials were