The Folgore’s lightweight construction (weighing around 5,500 pounds) and responsive handling earned it praise from its pilots and avowed respect from its adversaries. Looking back on the Axis Powers ...

Click to open image viewer. Virtually unknown outside Italy, the C.202 Folgore was the best fighter airplane fielded in significant numbers by the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force or RA) ...

The picture shows the aircraft Macchi C.202 Folgore marked 9476 exhibited at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. The aircraft is one of the few Italian WWII fighters that escaped ...

July 2, 1942, 7.45pm. The air raid sirens wails echoed around the island for what was to be the final attack of the day. Two Cant Z.1007s Italian bombers, escorted by 15 Macchi C.202s, droned towards ...