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ITALY'S NEW SUPERTRAINER M-346 |
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| Several independent European aviation magazines dedicated an article on this new developed plane ! | |||||||||
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| The Italian Aermacchi Factory can be proud on this new product ! We published: | |||||||||
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| After these praising words of Giulio Mainini of the 'Aermacchi Pilot Club' we present: | |||||||||
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| Impression: Dutch Aviation MEDIA BV publishes in several European Aviation Magazines | |||||||||
 
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| We published extended reportages about the Aermacchi M-346 and the M-311... | |||||||||
 
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| ... Visit the individual magazines on our mainpage to read all about it the M-346 | |||||||||
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| This exellent new designed Aermacchi plane is very compact, easy to maintain... | |||||||||
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| ... very low cost to fly and to be used for small defense or attack tasks as well... | |||||||||
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| ... and last but not least: Very nice to see ! Aermacchi's M-346 'The Other Daredevil' | |||||||||
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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 !! | |||||||||
| In time, we'll see this machine appear elsewhere in Europe on airshows may we hope ! | |||||||||
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