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  Caproni Ca.4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Caproni Ca.4 was an Italian heavy bomber of the World War I era.
After designing the successful Caproni Ca.3 heavy bomber, Gianni Caproni of the Caproni works designed a much bigger aircraft.
It shared the unusual layout of the Caproni Ca.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.
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 ch2-3
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.
Both biplane and triplane bombers were built by Caproni, with the number of biplanes produced far outnumbering the triplanes.
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.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-468/ch2-3.htm   (2927 words)

  
 Caproni ca.42 questions [Archive] - The Aerodrome Forum
Also, from the pictures I have seen of this and other Caproni bombers, it looks like they had fixed fins with no rudder.
I looked at another view of the fins on a CA.36 and it looks like they must be all flying rudders but the rigging is confusing.
Caproni Ca.46 1918 = Army bomber of Italian design, built under license.
www.theaerodrome.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-1277.html   (526 words)

  
 Caproni CA5
The Caproni ca.5, or Caproni 600 hp, was designed in 1917 as a replacement for the old and effective Ca.3 bomber.
The Caproni Ca.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.
www.worldwar1.com /dbc/caprca5.htm   (643 words)

  
 Alex's Sailplane Directory
42 110 kph / 63 kt / 73 mph (40)
(42 100 kph 54 kt / 62 mph)
At least one Diamant 18 was substantially modified by Dan Pierson of Los Angeles, CA to have a 19.0 m.
www.sailplanedirectory.com /zwfnw.htm   (4368 words)

  
 Caproni Ca.165   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Only a prototype was built, because Regia Aeronautica chose Fiat CR 42 for series production (see photo No.
On August 3, 1939 the Ca.165 reached a top speed of 466 km/h (290 mph) probably becoming the fastest fixed-undercarriage biplane fighter in the world.
In fact the letters “CT” in the circle painted in fuselage means “Caproni Taliedo”.
1000aircraftphotos.com /APS/2474.htm   (101 words)

  
 WWI Allied Bombers
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 Caproni Ca.3 series of biplane bombers, 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.
www.wwiaviation.com /bombers_allies.shtml   (660 words)

  
 Caproni Ca.42
Reason is I too am building a Caproni (is there any plane not been modelled ??) However, Im going the easier way with a Caproni Ca 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.
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 Caproni Ca.42
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......
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 RC Groups - wing loading versus flying speed
It will have a low wing loading and zero incidence as well.
The 98" Caproni Ca 42 triplane bomber is in the noodling stage.
It would come in at about 12 oz.
www.rcgroups.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-244525.html   (2387 words)

  
 WarBird Pictures
Museo dell' Aeronautica Gianni Caproni, Trento, Italy - May '05
Planes of Fame Museum, Chino, CA - December '99 & February '02
Museum of Flying, Santa Monica, CA - December '99 & February '02
www.warbirdpix.com   (481 words)

  
 RC Groups - Mystery Aircraft?
Jan 09, 2005, 01:18 AM #795 is just one digit short, it's a Caproni Ca 42.
Tell me though, it could really use some wheel pants huh?, almost like its begging for them!
Jan 09, 2005, 06:15 AM #795 is just one digit short, it's a Caproni Ca 42.
www.rcgroups.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-287752-p-9   (3010 words)

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