20th century
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early 1910s
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french third republic
great britain
interwar period
kingdomofitaly
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nazi germany
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Hi,
here is a strange gyroplane Project,designed by Alfredo Varni.
http://www.avia-it.com/act/biblioteca/periodici/PDF%20Riviste/Ala%20d'Italia/L'ALA%20D'ITALIA%201930%2005.pdf
http://www.avia-it.com/act/biblioteca/periodici/PDF%20Riviste/Ala%20d'Italia/L'ALA%20D'ITALIA%201930%2006.pdf
Hi! Breda Ba.27
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breda_Ba.27
"The Ba.27 was a low-wing braced monoplane with fixed tailwheel undercarriage. As originally designed, the Ba.27 had a fuselage of steel tube construction, skinned with light corrugated alloy metal, and wooden wings and tailplane...
Hi,
here is a three little known light aircraft from Italy,the first called
Bottini M.B.2,the second aircraft from Mr. Crisanti and the third
was Fongri - De Grignani,does anyone one know more,but must
be a little known ...
Anyone have any more information about dimensions and speed of this 1937 Italian sub hunter of 1300 tons with anti-submarine float plane? Love to know more about the floatplane. 3x1 120mm; 4x1 20mm; 2x2 torpedo tubes; 4 depth charge throwers, and sonar...
Hi,
here is Guidoni early aircraft concepts,and his his activities in aviation about developed
a floats to anther airplanes,in early period.
http://www.alieuomini.it/pagine/dettaglio/uomini,5/ricordi_di_idroaviazione,21.html
Project G - 'Submergible motorboat', originally intended for coastal defence (a 'fighter' concept, armed with two 450 mm torpedoes), prototypes later modified for special operations with the 10th Light Flotilla [Decima Flottiglia MAS].
First batch (prototypes)
CA 1 - Scuttled at La Spezia...
Hi,
the Caproni-Reggiane Ca.8000 was a four engined high-shoulder-wing flying boat
monoplane project of 1944,and powered by four Pratt & Whitney engines.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggiane_Ca.8000
Aermacchi was an Italian aircraft manufacturer. Established originally in 1912 as the Nieuport-Macchi S.A. by Giulio Macchi at Varese in north-western Lombardy. It was later known as Aeronautica Macchi S.p.A. During the firms formative years Macchi worked closely with engine designer Vittorio...
Gabardini/CANSA Aircraft Designations
After designing a radical catamaran flying boat in France in 1910, Giuseppe Gabardini returned to Italy in 1912 and set up Aeroplani Gabardini at Taliedo. In Dec 1913, Gabardini took over the Cameri facilities of AVIS (Ateliers Voisin Italie Septentrionale)...
C.M.A.S.A. - Construzioni Mecchaniche Aeronautiche SA Designations
Rinaldo Piaggio began SCMP (sometimes 'SDCMP' for Societa di Costruzioni Meccaniche di Pisa) in 1922 to license Dornier designs. In 1929, SCMP joined the Fiat Group and, in 930, the name was changed to Construzioni Mecchaniche...
interwar period
kingdomofitaly
ministry of aeronautics (kingdomofitaly)
ministry of the air force (kingdomofitaly)
regia aeronautica
regia marina
world war ii
Hi,
we spoke before about many Fiat projects,but I open this topic to continue talking
about more Fiat Projects.
the G.4 was a two seat light aircraft project,powered by one 760 hp Fiat A.6 R
engine,I hope we get a more unknown Fiat G series projects...
Hi friends! I was looking for a 3-view of the Fiat AS.14, the bomber version of the seaplane Fiat R.S. 14. I didn't find anythig so I decided to do it by myself. I retouched a 3-view of the seaplane aircraft... I know that it's not a correctly and accurate draw, but I did mybest... I'd like to...
Contest 1934: A speedy bomber for the Royal Italian Air Force
Talking about the characteristics and necessities of competition held by the Italian Ministry of Aeronautics in 1934 for a Terrestrial bomber <Veloce> (speedy) defined with the intention to evade enemy fighters; You must place in the...
Another interesting little-known Piaggio project. The P. 127 was started during wartime as possible long range transport aircraft especially for civil role (in that sense it could be a concurrent of both CANT Z-511 and BZ 308).
The P.127C was a huge aircraft (wingspan: 56m, max weight: 56,000...
Here it is my personal contribution about the matter.
Less known Italian prototype of mid-30's, born as record breaker (and eventually succeded in it) was also utilized as fake bomber during WWII in order to mislead Allies. During 1942 it was seriously considered as potential "America Bomber"...
I will start to report news on Italian prototypes, that although numerous, appear to be little known
We start from the family of vehicles OF-40
The OF40 is a tank that was produced in small quantities for export markets, from its platform, however, were derived means very interesting:
OF-40...
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