lxbfYeaa, e-mail, 14.03.2024 05:44 20

Alberto Rizzi, e-mail, 20.03.2018 21:59 The S.V.A. fighter series were probably the fastest aircrafts in the W.W.I skies, at least until the appearance of the Nieuport-Delage Ni.29: tested between March and May 1918, but that entered in service only in 1920; and that had more or less the same speed. In spite of this and because its dimensions the S.V.A.s suffered poor manoeuvrability (if compared with the other single seat fighters, both Allied and Austro-Germans), but Italians used them in several occasions as an escort fighter for the Caproni bombers; but above all as a scout, with excellent results in this case; and in some long range reconnaissance flights too: like that over the Zeppelin factory in Friedrichshafen, 21st of May 1918.

Barry, 21.02.2012 13:03 There is an S.V.A.5 on display at Museo Storrico del Aeronautico Militaire Vigna de Valle in Italy.

Steve, e-mail, 17.05.2010 16:44 I believe this was the best performance fighter of WW1.

luca, e-mail, 28.09.2007 16:59 used to perform long distance raid on Vienna by La Serenissima Escadre

All the World's Rotorcraft

Virtual Aircraft Museum