Fiat G-59

[ysi_maniac]

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0652...next_id=0597178

Yeah, a Fiat G-55 centauro with merlin engine.
   

[elmayerle]

Actually, the Fiat G.59 comes in several configurations, single- or twin-seat, razorback- or bubble-canopy, in all possible permutations.  The two-seater with bubble-canopy has a canopy much like that of the two-seat Sea Fury.

[K5054NZ]

I have a G.55 kit which I intend to rebuild as a G.59B with bubble canopies, based on the aircraft owned by the Late Guido Zuccoli. Amazing-looking machine!

[B777LR]

Cool! Never heard of it before...

Apparently this was also the luftwaffe fighter in U-571:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0266...next_id=0035257

[elmayerle]

I have a G.55 kit which I intend to rebuild as a G.59B with bubble canopies, based on the aircraft owned by the Late Guido Zuccoli. Amazing-looking machine!

Zac, if you can find them (perhaps via an internet hobby shop in Italy), kits of th G.59-4 with it's "double-bubble" canopy do exist.