Pomilio PC

The Pomilio P-types were the most widely-produced Italian designs of the war. The first was the Pomilio PC, whose engine was uncowled and the crew set in close but separate cockpits. The PC was fast enough to outrun many enemy fighters, but it had stability issues that resulted in crashes and pilots distrusted the type. This problem was not corrected until the PE. The PC was ordered in the hundreds, but only about seventy were completed before production shifted instead to the Pomilio PD, where those problems were corrected.