Survivors
Four CR.42s are known to exist:
- The Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon has a Regia Aeronautica machine (MM5701) on display. This was captured on 11 November 1940 when it suffered an overheated engine and was forced to land on the shingle beach at Orfordness, Suffolk.
- At the Swedish Air Force Museum near Linköping is a J 11, Fv2543.
- The Fighter Collection at Duxford are restoring another Swedish J 11 to fly - formerly Fv2542; now civil-registered as G-CBLS.
- At the Italian Air Force Museum, Vigna di Valle is a CR.42 in Italian colours as "MM4653", which in fact is a composite built up with the help of parts recovered in Sweden, Italy and France.
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Famous quotes containing the word survivors:
“I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.”
—Lisel Mueller (b. 1924)
“I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don’t know how to handle their parents. They see that their parents are traumatized: they scream and don’t react normally.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)