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RESUMÉ OF ITALIAN AERONAUTICAL ACTIVITIES.

Italy has had little incentive for the development of many new types of planes or motors since the war due to the huge accumulation of war supplies on hand.

The Italian Air Service has salvaged or otherwise disposed of the greater part of her old airplanes but she has over 11,700 spare engines on hand, most of which have never been used, and with these figures always before them, it is very difficult to convince the legislative bodies of the Government or the directors of the big industrial plants, of the advisability of spending additional money for new engines. The result is that all designers of both new commercial and military types of airplanes are striving to create, and have created, better airplanes built up around the engines developed during the war. These engines have been in some cases, considerably improved since the armistice by slight modifications. This is where Germany is more fortunate, from an aeronautical point of view, than any of the Allies, for having loaded all her obsolete material upon the latter, she is free to direct all her studies, designs, experiments, and available money toward new constructions.


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