New Italian Jet-Propelled Plane
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New Italian Jet-Propelled Plane
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Title: Propless Plane With Hollow Fuselage Is Jet-Propelled
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SINCE years before the war, engineers of
the Caproni aircraft works in Italy have
been toying with strange, barrel-shaped
planes. One of the first experimental types
had an open cylindrical fuselage with a con-
ventional airplane propeller at its front
(P.S.M., Jan. '33, p. 18). Late in 1940, Col.
Mario de Bernardi, veteran racing pilot, was
credited with taking an improved model—
the CC-1—aloft for 10 minutes.
Now comes a completely jet-propelled
Caproni plane, devoid of any propeller. Ac-
cording to reports from Italy, the CC-2
weighs 11,000 pounds and seats two persons.
Through a circular aperture at the nose, air
enters the hollow fuselage and passes through
a tunnel with alternating bulges and con-
tractions. Gasoline-powered turbines give
the air jet a boost, and add their own hot ex-
haust gases for increased power. Streaming
from the tail, the resulting gaseous jet pro-
pels the craft much like a rocket—except
that the Caproni model is said to function
best at lower levels.
‘With increasing demand for speed, Italian
sources declare, radical new types of planes
may be expected, and the Caproni design
represents one promising effort. This claim
hardly is confirmed by an average pace of
130 miles an hour maintained by the CC-2
on a cross-country flight of 168 miles. How-
ever, the novelty of the design is sufficient
to interest the aeronautical world in further
scheduled tests.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1942-05
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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129
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Roberto Meneghetti
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 140, n. 5, 1942
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