Mario Pittoni's torpedo aircraft

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Dear,
here it is the 3-view of the Mario Pittoni "MP" torpedo aircraft, designed in 1941.
The project was designed by Mario Pittoni while he was working in Breda factories.
The informations are few, but the source (Gente dell'Aria - Giorgio Evangelisti) talk about a 4-engine V-inverted aricraft, maybe four Daimler-Benz DB 601, in tandem configuration.
The speed calculations was about 550 km/h and the armament consited in 2 torpedo and 4 machine gun of 12,7 mm, or 2 cannon of 20 mm.
Regards.
 

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Dear lucamax!

Thanks for sharing. In my humble opinion, the composition of 4 heavy engines far forward from the leading edge looks... questionable, due to requirement of CG maintaing.
Moreover, thin pylons and braces wouldn't be a good support for powerful engines.
Anyway, the projects has had it's own, distinctive shape.
In some measure, placement of jets on the sides of rear fuselage in 1950-60s have been also questionable solution - at least it loves itself well later :cool:

Could you say more about the aircraft's designer, Pittoni?
 
My dear Silencer,

Mr. Mario Pittoni was an Italian designer,he worked for Breda for long time,responsible for
Ba.201 & BP.471,also he had a twin engined Project,here;

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,28023.msg292289.html#msg292289
 
Excellent, and a very unique engine arrangement for its time

Cleaned up the drawing a bit
 

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