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Originally Posted by Six Nifty .50s
That's odd. In the 1930s the Italians were ahead of everyone else in developing supercharged aircraft engines for torpedo boats.
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That's interesting and I'm certainly in no position to doubt you! They also managed to build highly-competitive racing seaplanes between the wars (and racing cars, as they still do!). They did however use licence-built Daimler-Benz inlines for all their later fighters.
I'm sure too that I read a remark somewhere that designers usually built trimotor aircraft (of which Italy had several types, some very successful) when they didn't have a motor powerful enough to do the job with just two. Maybe that's just prejudice though?