Took me a while to figure out which aircraft it was, but I finally found it:

The Savoia-Marchetti SM.75GA Marsupiale (GA denoting the "Long Range" variant). Also, here's the photo that proved its arrival in Tokyo for the Rome-to-Tokyo flight.

AdventZero said:

Took me a while to figure out which aircraft it was, but I finally found it:

The Savoia-Marchetti SM.75GA Marsupiale (GA denoting the "Long Range" variant). Also, here's the photo that proved its arrival in Tokyo for the Rome-to-Tokyo flight.

Wow, and I was here, thinking that it probably was a Savoia-Marcherri SM.82...

In my defense, it was a development of the former, with the same unofficial nickname!

Historynerd said:

Wow, and I was here, thinking that it probably was a Savoia-Marcherri SM.82...

In my defense, it was a development of the former, with the same unofficial nickname!

To be fair, the SM.82 is just the fully militarized version of the SM.75, so it's very easy to mistake the two.

I'm curious to see how the original poster looked like.

palesse said:

I'm curious to see how the original poster looked like.

See Yoshikawa Kazunori's post: [tweet] / [twipple photo image]

Twipple's dead :(

Della said:

Twipple's dead :(

I went there and it worked.

Anyway, here's the poster: http://i.imgur.com/4RPuHxi.jpg

So...sorellona = big sis ?

zankde said:

So...sorellona = big sis ?

Precisely.

zankde said:

So...sorellona = big sis ?

Yes but only little kids use it to be honest. It'd be weird if an actual Italian adult used it for their older sister. It sounds cute though, so I went with it.

Nagumo said:

Yes but only little kids use it to be honest. It'd be weird if an actual Italian adult used it for their older sister. It sounds cute though, so I went with it.

Oh... I thought another ship named "Sorellona" was present somewhere and that was who was being addressed.

That's what I get for being lazy and not even trying to read the JP original.