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Hi all, today no Caproni-Fighter. In Ali d'Italia Caproni Ca.133 I have found little info´s about the unbuild versions of the Ca.133, but no drawing or technical data. If you have drawings, 3views or technical data about the Ca.141, Ca.151 and Ca.177 please let me know ::) Servus Maveric

Dear Folks, I've found out some interesting information about a lanucher glider project which roughly resembles German studies about the so-called "Mistel" combination (even if also Germans, Russians and English has conducted a lot of experimentations with parasite concepts during '30s). The...

The projects drawn by Filippo Zappata, famous Italian designer known for the CANT Z 10XX and 5XX series, while working at Breda (circa 1942-1950) are one of the major problems of Italian aviation history. Breda archives were utterly destroyed when the aviation branch of the company went...

Sometimes projects make themselves discovered in very unlikely places. Last Friday I was in Rome at the Italian Air Force historical archives doing research for my book. On the same table there was my friend Paolo Miana looking for infos on the Italian giant bombers of late 20s -early 30s...

Hi all, in 1939 in Italy was a contest for a Caccia-Comattimento (Heavy Fighter) in wich eight projects were entered: 1) Macchi M.C. 301 2) Caproni-Bergamasca Ca.350 3) Romeo Ro.67 4) Fiat C.R. 50 and C.R.55 5) Bellomo C.B. 6) Santangelo C.S. 7) Savoia-Marchetti S.M.91 We know the Ro.67...

Hi, The Caproni was a great aircraft company and it absorbed more than 20 companies during its life. Biplane and Monoplane first as a historical aircraft. Ca.30 three engined bomber of 1913 led to developed the Ca.31 and inter production as Ca.1. Ca.1 to Ca.5 heavy bombers. Ca.6 biplane. Ca.7...

Hey fans, I search for all material of Agusta-aircrafts or projects before the helicopter production! Help, please. Cheers

First post of a long topic about Italian battleship Francesco Caracciolo and the many designs for her in 1914-1919. A quick summary; A-series with 12x381mm guns B-series unknown? C-series definitive Caracciolo with 8x381mm guns in duples. What was actually built (but not finished) D-series with...

Discussing the CC.2 in the Campini projects thread, the talk went on the Re.2007, a notorious fake. Since there is some interest in this and it seems that the "fekeness" ot the Re.2007 is not widely aknowledged, I give here a (somewhat lenghty explanation). Since we are in Secret projects, I...

Campini CS3. 3 Isotta Fraschini L121 inline engines driving propellors. Outer engines drive burners like CC2. Central engine provides supercharging for others above 5000m. Project from 1939. Picture No.1 GA of CS.3 Picture No.2 section view of CS.3 and CS.4 Source: Aerofan

Ok, in 1940 the war as just started or was about to start (for Italy and Japan) and things were going fairly well. In Germany and Italy airlines and governments started to plan for the expected post-war increase in air traffic, expecially on the Atlantic routes (sound familiar?). Diffrently...

Circa late 1942 Ing. Casiraghi, chief designer of Piaggio, worked on a project fro an high-altitude pressurized long range bomber. P-130 was powered by 4 Piaggio P XII RC 100 A DB-605 located on top of the bomb bay drove the compressor. Defensive weapons were two revolving turrets Breda Z on...

Italy has a long tradition in producing of aircraft, but there are many gaps in the list of type designations. Let’s start with the best-known company Fiat. I restricted the enumeration for the time after WWII. Skybolt and tanino (other Italian readers here?), please help to fill the gaps...

Antonio Surfin in the web i found two of the non built projects from ing. Bellomo who worked for italian Aeronautica Umbra and create these fighter projects before italy get involved in the WWII. Both are twin engine fighters the illustrations were not good, but it´s better than nothing...