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From Zero to Hero in four easy steps: Marcel Bloch's single engined fighters
The MB.150 prototype competes for the title worst fighter plane ever, for it never quite managed to take off. The MB.152 flew, was robust, reliable and heavily armed, but short-ranged and neither very fast nor very maneuverable. The MB.155 pretty much caught up with the Bf109E, a little slower but considerably longer-ranged. The MB.157 prototype managed to attain an average speed of 710 kph on a transit flight (although without radios and armament and probably only half-fueled), with no more than 1.590 hp; with full equipment it would probably been fully equal to the best Fw190A.
And yes, I am serious about the engine installation; from the MB.152 onwards, the engines were installed off-axis to counter torque effects, facing to the left in MB.152 and 155 and to the right in MB.157.
BTW, as people currently seem to be busy dividing up Italian WWII airplanes among them: If no-one minds, I take the entire Caproni product palette plus the CRDA Z.1018 Leone and the losers of the BGA competition. For starters.
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GD