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Pegasus were developed, the first as a two-seater bomber with an armament of four 7.7 mm (0.303 in) machine guns in the wings and up to 400 kg (882 lb) of bombs in racks under the wings. The second was a single-seater fighter
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C and although single-seat variants were built, all the Ba.64s were converted to two-place bomber/attack aircraft with a single 7.7 mm (0.303 in) machine gun mounted in the rear cockpit. Production of the 42 Ba.64s was complete by 1936.
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in line with the wing roots to provide an excellent field of vision down as well as forward. The headrest behind the cockpit was extended as a streamlined fairing all the way down the fuselage upper decking to the tail. Two
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configuration fitted with a semi-retractable main landing gear that when in its rearward retracted position, provided less drag as well as protection in case of a wheels-up landing.
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List of Regia
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548:Aircraft of World War II: The Aviation Factfile
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403:3 × 7.7 mm (.303 in) Breda-SAFAT machine guns
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460:List of Interwar military aircraft
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450:List of aircraft of World War II
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398:Breda-SAFAT
352:Performance
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128:Breda Ba.64
19:Breda Ba.64
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226:Stormos
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