Well thats different.... How to move a fighter

[Scott Rose]

Found this on the Interwebs...

[TAdan]

I'd love to see a side by side comparison of this and a P-35. Just how similar were they?

Oh, and that's a pretty wild transport trailer too.

[Chris Brame]

Note also the landing gear looks like it was copied from the P-36, right down to the doors.

[Duggy009]

Details and more info can be found here- http://axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e ... ic.php?294

[JohnB]

That method of transport seems to work...as long as there aren't any low bridges.

[airnutz]

Not the same thing, but a hangarful of L-birds stored on their nose vertically is a pretty striking image. They didn't have a trailer like that, but used a fixture on a forklift or somesuch to fill a hangar in storm preparation.

[Rick65]

The Italian Navy flew these off some capital ships. I have wondered if this was a device to get them back to port to be put back on the ships after ending their flight by landing at an air field.

[Rick65]

Scott

Mark posted what I think were these photos in 2013 when much of a Re.2000 was recovered from the sea and placed in bath.
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=51530

My post in that thread follows

Could the trailer be connected with the following?
Wiki
The Regia Marina (Italian Navy), however, experimented with a carrier version (Serie II) which was successfully launched by catapult. Lacking a carrier, Italy used a similar system to the British CAM ships equipped with Hurricanes. The first proposal was made in late December 1940, although the program officially began with an order issued in April 1943. The first modified Re.2000 Cat. (taken from the Swedish orders) flew on 27 June 1941, the last on 18 January 1942 (MM.8282-8288), but crashed on 10 September. There was another navalized Re.2000, the MM.471. It flew initially with a lower powered A.74 RC.38 engine, but it was lost too, during the travel from Reggio Emilia to Taranto (12 May 1941). The first launch was performed on 9 May 1942 with test pilot Giulio Reiner.[11] The work to make suitable the Re.2000 Cat., nicknamed Ochetta (little goose) took considerable time and only at the beginning of 1943 were they used aboard the Littorio class, but not more than one for every ship (although capable of holding three aircraft). Initially the Re.2000 Cat. aircraft were issued to Littorio and Vittorio Veneto, while Roma followed only in the summer, after testing had taken place aboard the RN Miraglia.
[11] Harrauer, Franco. "Re.2000 Catapultabile." Aerei nella Storia, W.Ward editions, Parma ago-September 2008, pp. 49–50

What does it do to a radial to be tipped like that?

[shrike]

Note also the landing gear looks like it was copied from the P-36, right down to the doors.

Which Curtiss licensed from Boeing, same as Vought for the Corsair. You might eventually go to war with someone, but patents are patents and business is business.

[shrike]

I'd love to see a side by side comparison of this and a P-35. Just how similar were they?

Within a percentage poit or two. Reggiane approached producing the P-35 under license for the competition. What effect the Seversky/Republic reorganization had on that deal is more than I want to look at on my first cup of coffee this morning.