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Aviation History
1962
1962 - 2158.PDF
In flight over the fat Campagna, near Rome, a Macchi 326 bearing the badge of the Italian Flight Test Centre at Pratica di Mare HE MB.326 FACTORY AND A CUSTOMER meet the training requirement for the F-104G—or for any other combat aircraft, for that matter. For this reason the 326 was an obvious choice, in that it can handle the elementary work of the T-6 as well as most of the ground currently covered by the T-33. What will happen in the advanced training stage—T-38, G.91T, F-104F, or whatever the choice may be—has yet to be revealed. One interesting sidelight was the recent release of information on the MB.326C, a special version carrying all the electronic mission equipment that the F-104G will employ. Briefly, Macchi's aim was to produce a highly refined but simple aircraft, embodying the extremely wide range of performance charac teristics needed for both ab initio training and relatively advanced instruction, together with high utilization and minimal servicing and maintenance requirements. The arguments for having equip ment of this sort are well enough known not to warrant repetition here. But as a successful manifestation of these ideas, it has meant that in the MB.326 one has an aircraft with low take-off and landing A student enters the front cockpit for a training session Four 326s approaching the Island of Ischia, near Naples
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