Blue Print File SIAI SM93

The Savoia Marchetti SM93 was an all-metal Italian dive bomber of the Second World War. During 1942, the Italian company Savoia Marchetti started to design a completely new design for a dive bomber. The aircraft had a completely new design, featuring a new position for the pilot. During the flight, the pilot sat like in every other aircraft, but during the dive, the pilot was stretched out. Thanks to this feature, the pilot during the dive didn’t lose consciousness and was able to strike the target better. The project gained interest from the Italian Air Force, which commissioned two prototypes for the evaluations. In 1943, the construction of the prototypes started, and when the armistice stopped, every Italian project was left unfinished. The Savoia Marchetti, after this event, decided to finish the construction of the prototype, and after the Germans occupied Northern Italy, they followed the work. The prototype was completed in January 1944, and it flew for the first time on the 31st of the same month with the pilot, Fernando Rosei. After those evaluations, although the machine showed extremely good performance, the German air force, the Luftwaffe, stopped the development since they didn’t want Italy to build and develop new technology (similar to what they did with Re2006, G56, C206, and ecc)