Filippo Zappata's projects at Breda (was: answer to Archipeppe)

Hello to everyone. Sometimes I come back here. Sorry for not answering a score of direct messages and requests on the forum in general. Complicated times. Nothing worrying but ever less time available to follow the passion.
Anyway, I have something special for you all. I am surprised no-one posted it already, since it is in plain sight in a site that ought be familiar for at least someone here.
These are five photos of the only surviving (to my knowledge, but it is pretty vast) original display model of the Breda Zappata 301, the all-metal version of the CANT Z.1018 light bomber. The model is original (look at the designation in epoch characters on the side of the fuselage, those things are difficult to fake), probably slightly retouched. I have big doubts on the pedestal, which could be post-war, repurposed from a civilian model.
I degraded the resolution just a bit. If someone wants full size images, please write me, but you'll be asked to provide a reason (sick of having my images spread everywhere w/o aknowledgment).
As for the location, the model is plainly in the reception hall of Milan Aeroclub in Bresso. BUT, the model itself is not property of the Aeroclub. It is there on loan by a member. Now, the things get sticky from now on. The Breda's technical office and archives has been utterly sacked when Breda Aeronautica went bankrupt in the early 1950's. What little survives of the archives has been fortuitously saved by the late prof. Curami and now resides in the Breda Foundation archive and library. The people went to the extreme of scraping the little silver left on the original photos negatives to sell. The archive incuded a score of wartime display and gallery models as well. This is one of those. NOW, I know the name of the Aeroclub member who owns the model. I will not write it down, but I ask him, if it is here to contact me to give some information on the provenance of the model. That's all. Enjoy.


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BZ.303 and BZ.301 reconstructed with AI.

Here is the BZ.303 as a night fighter. It would have also doubled as a torpedo bomber.
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And here is the BZ.301 based on the model photographed by Skybolt (AI reproduced it even too accurately, the glass looks like plastic...)
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And here is a colorized version of the outline drawing, I assume this was an earlier version because it's basically like the Z.1018, the engines look different and it doesn't have the extra turret on top of the cockpit:
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Also there are no propellers in the outline drawing.
 

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Here is what the BZ.303 might have looked like with jet engines, this time with an accurate black paint for it's use as a night fighter.

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From what I understand there is a debate on whether the BZ.303 or BZ.301 were supposed to be fitted with jet engines, some sources like Ciampaglia's book and even reputable users on this forum say the BZ.303, either with Campini turbo-props or german turbojets, other sources say the BZ.301 instead. Now since all these projects were variants of essentially the same plane, being studied at the same time and by the same people, I don't know why they would only consider jet engines for one plane and not the other! And why only the bombers and not the fighters meant to intercept bombers, especially late into the war when interceptors were more important than bombers...

Either way this is just an artistic impression so we can have fun speculating.
If this project wasn't canceled it could have definitely been equipped with jet engines, maybe even German ones, just like they were supposed to be equipped with RDT Lepre radars but they decided to also test a German radar on the Z.1018 CN since they had it at their disposal.
 
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