The Caproni Ca.4 was an Italian heavy bomber of the World War I era.
After designing the successful CaproniCa.3 heavy bomber, Gianni Caproni of the Caproni works designed a much bigger aircraft.
It shared the unusual layout of the CaproniCa.3, being a twin-boom aircraft with one pusher engine at the rear of a central nacelle and two tractor engines in front of twin booms.
Caproni, Gotha, Friedrichshafen, A.E.G., Handley Page, and Vickers are a few other names that will be forever linked with the large, heavy bombers of the World War I era.
The Caproni CA.42 seems to have had a very creditable performance when equipped with Liberty engines; with lower power engines the performance was not nearly so good.
The Capronica.5, or Caproni 600 hp, was designed in 1917 as a replacement for the old and effective Ca.3bomber.
The CaproniCa.5 11669 with the crew of American pilots Coleman Fenafly De Witt and lt. James Bahl and the Italians lt. obs.
A large quantity of Caproni 6 was produced for the US Navy and in late 1918 they were ferried by American pilots from Milan to Northen France, suffering severe mishaps.
The Caproni three-engined bomber appeared in 1914, powered by three Gnome rotary engines.
Caproni Ca.4 Series was patterned along the lines of the CaproniCa.3 series of biplanebombers, the larger triplanes of the Ca.4 series were designed to be more effective in combat.
Sometimes armed with up to eight machine guns, these cumbersome bombers were capable of accurately delivering large payloads of bombs to distant enemy targets.
Reason is I too am building a Caproni (is there any plane not been modelled ??) However, Im going the easier way with a CaproniCa 3.4 it has only two wings.
I have heard that the Caproni Museum in Trento, Italy has a model of a commercial version of the Ca.42 but have been unable to contact them about it.
There are many variants of the Ca 3.6 but because I have pics of the restored one in USA my true scale one will be of it.
I should finish framing it up this week and have it ready to fly (if it will fly) in two or three weeks if I don't run into any unforseen issues.
Well Bruce, six days to the Dawn Patrol Games and here she is. If it is going to fly in the event beginning Sunday at 11:00 am, it will probably have initial flight testing Sunday at 8:00 am.
Take readings with the scale juggled around to all three points and add up the three totals and you should get the total weight......
