FIAT CR. 25
CFS3 - V2.85.06
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CFS3 FIAT CR. 25
This aircraft was built by Bill "SPITFRND" Wilson using version 2.85.06 of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. It is based on the 3D model created by and painted by Corrado La Posta. Corrado has designated this as a a beta version of the model. Please see the original readme file for more information.
Corrado painted this plane to represent an aircraft assigned to the Strategic Reconnoitre 173a Squadriglia, Sicily 1941.
The CR25 was designed and built by Celestino Rosatelli's Fiat team in 1937. Although built with no specific mission type in mind the CR25 was solidly constructed and nice handling and soon revealed to be sufficiently flexible to adapt to many different tasks. Thus it had potential as a long range fighter, medium range, fast reconnaissance aircraft, light bomber and even fast passenger cargo plane. The first prototype, flown by Valentino Cus, proved itself faster than the contemporary fighters of the period, reaching a speed of 490 kmh.
Unfortunately for Fiat, the CR25 was not appreciated by the High Command of the Regia Aeronautica, which favor several competitors, including the Caproni 311. As a result, the design languished until 1940 the Regia Aeronautica purchased a set of ten slightly modified (serie Bis) aircraft from Fiat. This was to prove the only units produced for the RA. In July 1941, six aircraft were assigned to the Strategic Reconnoitre 173a Squadriglia in Sicily and were immediately enthusiastically received by their pilots.
The CR 25 proved highly reliable, for example completing 400 hours of convoy patrols and reconnaissance missions without a single technical accident. The aircraft also were successful in blocking the intruder efforts of the English Bristol Blenheims based in Malta. A transport version of this aircraft was constructed for the use of the Italian Air Attachee who was stationed in Berlin. The fighter variants had two glass panels under the nose and in some cases small, square glass windows lining the sides of the nose as well. The transport version had a solid nose with a single pane of glass on the starboard underside of the forward fuselage. After the Italian armistice in 1943, the Germans confiscated the Air Attachee's Fiat CR 25 and assigned it to a Luftwaffe training school where it served until 1944.
In October 1942 the CR25 began to be replaced by the twin-engined Caproni Ca314. Fiat proposed a new prototype (probably equipped with 1175 hp engines and armed with two 20 mm Mauser guns) in the spring 1943 but the design was never pursued.
CFS3 - V2.85.06
AvHistory 1% Aircraft General Statement and Installation Instructions
It is the intention of the AvHistory 1% project to over time build the most accurate aircraft that the CFS3 software can support. The development of a 1% aircraft requires specific and in many cases dramatic changes to the aircraft delivered with the MS game as well as the addition of aircraft built from the ground up by third parties which were never included in the original MS game. We believe that because the AvHistory 1% aircraft are materially different they should not be mixed with "box stock" aircraft in online combat.
All the planes 1% listed for download are qualified for use in our AvHistory William Tell Meet Air Combat Ladder. For information and to get the sign up sheet for the ladder please go to the LINKS section at http://www.avhistory.org
No AvHistory 1% aircraft maybe provided for download from any site without express written consent of AvHistory. No skins for AvHistory aircraft, other then those based on stock MS CFS3 visuals, maybe offered for download with our written permission.
Additionally, direct linking to our download site is forbidden.
CFS3 FIAT CR. 25
This aircraft was built by Bill "SPITFRND" Wilson using version 2.85.06 of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. It is based on the 3D model created by and painted by Corrado La Posta. Corrado has designated this as a a beta version of the model. Please see the original readme file for more information.
Corrado painted this plane to represent an aircraft assigned to the Strategic Reconnoitre 173a Squadriglia, Sicily 1941.
The CR25 was designed and built by Celestino Rosatelli's Fiat team in 1937. Although built with no specific mission type in mind the CR25 was solidly constructed and nice handling and soon revealed to be sufficiently flexible to adapt to many different tasks. Thus it had potential as a long range fighter, medium range, fast reconnaissance aircraft, light bomber and even fast passenger cargo plane. The first prototype, flown by Valentino Cus, proved itself faster than the contemporary fighters of the period, reaching a speed of 490 kmh.
Unfortunately for Fiat, the CR25 was not appreciated by the High Command of the Regia Aeronautica, which favor several competitors, including the Caproni 311. As a result, the design languished until 1940 the Regia Aeronautica purchased a set of ten slightly modified (serie Bis) aircraft from Fiat. This was to prove the only units produced for the RA. In July 1941, six aircraft were assigned to the Strategic Reconnoitre 173a Squadriglia in Sicily and were immediately enthusiastically received by their pilots.
The CR 25 proved highly reliable, for example completing 400 hours of convoy patrols and reconnaissance missions without a single technical accident. The aircraft also were successful in blocking the intruder efforts of the English Bristol Blenheims based in Malta. A transport version of this aircraft was constructed for the use of the Italian Air Attachee who was stationed in Berlin. The fighter variants had two glass panels under the nose and in some cases small, square glass windows lining the sides of the nose as well. The transport version had a solid nose with a single pane of glass on the starboard underside of the forward fuselage. After the Italian armistice in 1943, the Germans confiscated the Air Attachee's Fiat CR 25 and assigned it to a Luftwaffe training school where it served until 1944.
In October 1942 the CR25 began to be replaced by the twin-engined Caproni Ca314. Fiat proposed a new prototype (probably equipped with 1175 hp engines and armed with two 20 mm Mauser guns) in the spring 1943 but the design was never pursued.
