ITALY'S
NEW SUPERTRAINERS M-346
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Dutch
Aviation Media 2008
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AERMACCHI
DID IT AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
The
Italian Aermacchi Factory can be proud ! |
Several independent European aviation magazines
dedicated an article on this new developed plane ! |
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ATOPGUN
- ROMANIAA
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Aermacchi's
M-346 'The Other Daredevil' |
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AARANYSAS
- HUNGARYA
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Aranysas
reports about the M-346 and M-311 in one edition |
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Next
to the M-346-T (trainer) the M-346-K (combat) is an excellent light
Fighter as well ! |
APILOOT
EN VLIEGTUIG - THE NETHERLANDSA
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All
information about the M-346-T in the Dutch magazine 'Piloot en
Vliegtuig'. |
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M-346-T
Fighter-Trainer plane is grown up ! |
AINTERCEPTION
- GREECEA |
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INTERCEPTION
also dedicates much attention... |
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to this exellent plane |
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It's
very compact, easy to maintain... |
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very small cost to fly... |
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to be used for small defense or attack tasks as well... |
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and last but not least: Very nice to see ! |
APTISI
- GREECEA
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The collegues of
Ptisi Greece did a fine job on their article ! Scroll down for our own story
below |
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The M-346 is developed as a superior
trainer |
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Special techniques have been applied |
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Aermacchi developed it in cooperation with
Yakovlev |
AAERONAUTICA
& DIFESA - ITALYA
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The
Italian magazine Aeronautica & Difesa had two extended reportages
about the M-346 |
by
C. Tatangelo and Liberatore Foscolo (Aermacchi factory and Paris - Le
Bourget) |
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Scroll
down for our photographic impression about this medium sized giant ! |
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A
complete new trainer with excelling prospects ! |
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Here
you see the machine in a test environment, and later flown by a test-pilot |
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And
yes, ofcourse it can make long distances by refuelling air-to-air |
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After
every flight the machines is checked, looked after, on every small detail |
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View
in the cockpit. First time this wing-fuselage concept is integrated in a
trainer |
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The
project started in 1993 with Yakovlev, and resulted in a fine demonstrater |
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Some
other views of the prototype |
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And
a safe landing of the training giant |
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Presented
to high society and related people, Government, Aermacchi |
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Testing
and flying, over and over again |
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Surprise:
As M-346-K Aermacchi shows to have an excellent Light-Fighter as well ! |
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Various
arms can be carried, such as Iris-T, short range air-air missile (Fire and
Forget) |
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And
day after day, testing... testing... testing... and posing sometimes ! |
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Testing
refuelling, all possible aspects, plane in - plane out.... |
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Simple
manual checks, up till very specific technical tests on each single part |
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Along
the Aermacchi factory, and proud on the concrete: Many, many happy
landings, M-346 !! |
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In
time, we'll see this machine appear elsewhere in Europe on airshows may we
hope ! |
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