The Aeritalia G.91, also known as the Fiat G.91 and nicknamed Gina was an Italian fighter aircraft that was intended to serve as standard equipment for NATO air forces in the 1960s.
Aeritalia built 174 G.91s for Italy, plus 144 for Germany (including 50 that had been ordered and then cancelled by Greece and Turkey).
An additional 67 aircraft built by Aeritalia were significantly uprated from earlier versions.
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The Aeritalia G91 is an Italian single-seat light attack, close support and reconnaissance fighter first flown in 1958 (as the Fiat G91).
The Italian version is armed with four 0.5 inch Colt-Browning M3 machine-guns, the Portuguese version with two 30 mm DEFA 552 cannon, both gun arrangements located in the sides of the forward fuselage.
It is a twin-engine development of the Aeritalia G91, first flown in 1966 entering service in 1968.
The Alenia G.222 (Alenia originally Aeritalia) is a medium-sized STOL military transport aircraft.
The Italian Air Force, however, felt that the Aeritalia proposal was worthy of development and ordered two prototypes plus a ground-test airframe in 1968.
In the agreement suspending Ms Pugliese's employment with Aeritalia, the latter company also undertook to pay her voluntary insurance contributions in Italy, to reimburse two return air fares per year from Munich to the airport nearest herhome in Italy, and to credit her on her return with full seniority for the period worked abroad.
It appears that Aeritalia also undertook either to pay Ms Pugliese a rent allowance or to bear the cost of renting her accommodation in Munich for the duration of her assignment.
In the present case, Aeritalia might have offered Ms Pugliese a post and she might have accepted even if the Eurofighter post had not been available (or she had not wanted it) or, conversely, she might have been taken on by Eurofighter even if Aeritalia had not served as an intermediary.
Aeritalia: central fuselage, rudder and fin, radome, fibercarbon components for the wings and tail;
Rolls-Royce proceeded to a modification, changing to 60% flight idling RPM to be used on the approach, which corrected the malfunction; AMX has already been successfully flown at an 45º angle-of-attack.
The test programme was restarted with the flight of the second prototype, A.02 MM X595, on 19 November 1984; the third prototype, A.03 MM X596 accomplished its first flight on 28 January 1985 and it was used for the avionics and armament development.
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The Aeritalia (later Alenia) firm had been working on concepts since 1973; in response to the the AMI request, in April 1978 Aeritalia joined forces with Aermacchi to work on the requirement, which was given the designation of "Aeritalia Macchi Experimental (AMX)".
Aeritalia's workshare was 23.6%, while Aermacchi's was 46.5% and EMBRAER's was 29.7%.
Although there was a division of labor between the three companies in construction of subassemblies, all three were to perform final assembly.
The SSG recommended the purchase of over 300 airframes from several NATO Air Forces for the purpose of either retaining them at present capability for tactical use or upgrading them to "S" standard.
Purchase of surplus airframes from NATO stocks was initiated in February 1981 and several dozen were sent to the Aeritalia factory where they were overhauled and modified to F.8 (F-104S) standard.
The last of these modified aircraft were delivered to squadron service in the Summer of 1982, with the last of the Aeritalia-built aircraft being delivered in March of 1984.
The AeritaliaFiat G222 was drawn up to meet the outlines of NATO's Basic Military Requirement Four (NBMR4) of 1962, which sought to develop a practical V/STOL (Vertical/Short Take Off and Landing) transport for service with NATO air forces.
From the outset other major Italian manufacturers were involved in the program, with Aermacchi (outer wings), CIRSEA (landing gear), Piaggio (wing center-section), SlAI-Marchetti (tail unit), and Aeritalia (fuselage, final assembly and testing).
Alla sua creazione parteciparono diverse industrie italiane tra cui Aermacchi e Piaggio(ali), CIRSEA (carrello), SIAI-Marchetti (timone), Aeritalia (fusoliera, assemblaggio finale e test).
The Americans refused to accept the proposal, saying autonomous control of Columbus would be physically and technologically impossible.
In April 1986, Italy's Aeritalia finally proposed that the European Space Agency build a second free-flying pressurised module to be used with the Space Station.
The Italian initiative was intended to break the NASA-ESA deadlock.
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just finished and published on the registry is the Aeritalia G.222, completely rebuilt for X-Plane 8.06.
The cockpit has been remade to the new standards, the fuselage has a cockpit obj with the two pilots, the textures have been updated, the plane flies very well.
