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Hi everyone! Attached, a little work about an unbuilt italian all-wing of the '30s. Comments welcome. Cheers, Marco

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...

Hi, also from Italian MM series,there is anther unknown aircraft,the Molteni experimental fighter of 1929,does anyone know it ?. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Military_Aircraft_Designations/message/2294

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, a well known Italian company,which was formed in 1925,and in 1934 became IMAM,or simply Meridionali; Ro.1 licence built Fokker C.V,a two seat recce and bomber biplane Ro.2 to Ro.4 ------? Ro.5 two seat parasol wing sporting and training monoplane Ro.6 was a version of the Ro.5...

Hi, here is the Fiat CR.44 fightere bomber project and two Caproni Vizzola dive bomber projects,also CANSA glider dive bomber project.

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"...

Hi boys, I found for you an intriguing matter. In the present days archives of Piaggio Aero there is a picture (I enclose it), vaguely captioned 'Simulacro in legno' (wooden mock-up). I asked the engineer in charge of the picture files and he said he was unable to identify the mock-up. It appear...

As promised the Piaggio P. 133, Italian mixture between a Lancaster and a Liberator. Enjoy it. ;D

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...

Hi friends, On 'Ali antiche' (Ancient wings) # 91, house organ of GAVS (Gruppo Amivi Velivoli Storici, member of European Aviation Preservation Council and British Aviation Preservation Council) there is an interesting features with a picture (and some enhancement of others) depicting an unknow...

Hi, CNT-I -----? CNT-II was seaplane for Schneider Cup racer. CNT-3 -----? CNT-4 -----? CNT-5 -----? CANT-6 was three-engine biplane flying boat. CANT-7 was single-engined training flying boat biplane. CANT-8 -----? CANT-9 -----? CANT-10 was...

While surfing the net for info on a couple of other a/c, I found a side view of the P.108C here in this thread. http://warbirdsforum.com/showthread.php?t=2975 It looks like a DC-4. I Googled the a/c & most of what I found was the 108C was a transport version of the basic P.108, which I already...

Having started this discussion in Re 2000 topic, I decided to realize a profile of the Caproni Ca-313 in RAF 1940 camouflage. The camo is based upon that one standard for Blenheim Mk1 supposing that RAF would utilize the Caproni in the same role of light bomber/recce. In this case I suppose...

Something about the ricci brothers: Umberto Ricci, born in Verona on November 26, 1886 Ettore Ricci, born in Verona on November 30, 1888: they started their aeronautical career in 1905, building little hot air rigid airship models. After some free flight gliders, they built a triple-tandem...

Hi all, once again a question about Caproni... I don´t know project or not, but I search for pics or drawings of the following early Caproni aircraft Ca.52/Ca.54/Ca.55/Ca.78(sure project)/Ca.81(sure project)/Ca.88(real aircraft) and Ca.110(project). Thanks Maveric