In the photos Olive looked like army green to me; in person it is dark, almost bottle glass. In one week two people stopped me to ask where I had got them.
Climbing until the air runs out.
In 1935 Carina Massone set the world altitude record for a propeller-driven aircraft. A pioneer Italy has almost forgotten, and whom the papers of the day called a heroine of the skies.
High-altitude flight is the hardest test for a machine and for whoever flies it: the air thins, the engine loses power, the cold gets in everywhere. You climb as long as you can, and then a little further.
The model takes its front and its temple tips from the Corsair, one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built: the curve of the nose and the wing root, carried over into acetate.
