Talk:SIAI Marchetti FN.333

Hi- Please stop eliminating this article by merging it with the Nardi FN.333 article. The Nardi FN.333 was merely an early developmental version of the SIAI Marchetti FN.333 Riviera. Nardi lacked the resources to produce more than three of their original design and eventually sold the production rights to SIAI Marchetti, who had to continue developing the aircraft before it could be produced as a marketable aircraft. In the end, SIAI Marchetti produced 26 examples of their version of the aircraft, which was much modified from Nardi's original designs. You will note that this article is much longer and more comprehensive than the Nardi article, partially because there is more to tell about SIAI Marchetti's involvement with the design and production of their design than there is about the three examples built by Nardi. If you wish to combine the two articles that would be fine, but again, the article I've written is much more comprehensive than the Nardi article, and a single article would have to use the SIAI Marchetti name, since it was this company that actually produced the marketed version (you will note there is no article about the "Spencer Aircar", but rather the Republic RC-3 Seabee, despite the Seabee having evolved from the earlier Aircar). Lastly, while living in downriver Detroit for many years our family owned a Seabee (N6444K), and visited Southeast Aircraft (as they really called themselves) several times to look at the Riviera. At no time was it ever refered to in sales literature, or in person, as a Nardi. - Ken keisel (talk) 23:28, 17 June 2008 (UTC)