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caproni campini
« on: August 27, 2013, 03:32:05 PM »

CAN SOMEONE MAKE THE CAPRONI CAMPINI?
Role   fighter
Manufacturer   Caproni
First flight   27 August 1940
Status   Prototype
Number built   2
Crew: 2
Length: 13.10 m (43 ft)
Wingspan: 15.85 m (52 ft)
Height: 4.7 m (15 ft 5 in)
Wing area: 36.00 m² (387.5 ft²)
Empty weight: 3,640 kg (8,024 lb)
Max. takeoff weight: 4,195 kg (9,250 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × 670 kW Isotta Fraschini liquid-cooled V12 engine motorjet, resulting in 6.9 kN (1,550 lbf)
Piston engine drove a three-stage axial compressor for the thermojet with variable pitch vanes

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Re: caproni campini
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2013, 04:20:26 PM »

It is a must IMO +1
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Re: caproni campini
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2013, 06:21:36 PM »

You'll definitely have a warm ass sitting in that awesome beast.   ;D

Looks like they just strapped a cockpit to a jet engine

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Re: caproni campini
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2013, 06:40:17 PM »

Role   fighter
Nope.

Role: experimental plane, thermojet propulsion proof of concept.

Never planned to be armed or go into mass production, this plane was used to test the viability of a thermojet (a.k.a. motorjet) type of engine.

It's performance was way too low for it to be a viable fighting machine. Even with the deletion of the second cockpit, the added weight of the weapons would made it even worse.

Now this was supposed to be the real thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Campini_Ca.183bis



With the thermojet engine located in rear fuselage, and a conventional DB 605 driving a propeller in the nose, amd armed with 5 x MG151/20 cannons, this would be Italy's high altitude bomber killer.

It never got off the drawing board though.

This mixed power concept was used for a short time right after the war by both east and west (we have MiG I-250 in Il-2 already, and there was also Ryan FR-1 Fireball) but it was an evolutionary dead end - turbojets were the way to go.

Having said all this, i wouldn't mind if Caproni Campini N.1 would be made. The more the merrier. :)

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Re: caproni campini
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2013, 02:02:51 PM »

CAN ENIONE MAKE THIS PLANE? PLEASE  :-\
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Re: caproni campini
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2013, 02:57:45 PM »

REALY strange! ;D I think that Italians can designe elegant machines... :)
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Re: caproni campini
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2013, 03:09:57 PM »

In fact, I really like Italian planes  :)
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Re: caproni campini
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2013, 03:47:29 PM »

I have an idea, make this plane a frankenstein with yak 15 basic model?  :)
Sorry for my bad english
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Re: caproni campini
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2013, 07:38:54 AM »

lol, you need to be patient. You posted the request, you have to wait and see If someone pick the project.

BTW, what will you do with the plane in game? Just curious, is slow and unarmed, doesn't look too agile either. If you want to fly one, have you searched for a Microsoft Flight Simulator version? Again is just curiosity.
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Re: caproni campini
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2013, 08:21:14 AM »

I would like to make it armed with machine guns, just to do some dogfight  :)
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Re: caproni campini
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2013, 03:50:57 PM »

I would like to make it armed with machine guns, just to do some dogfight  :)

It was actually intended to have 2 20MM gun in the wings or even 4 ?
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