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(unless there where one or two Cut and Shut modder's then too)
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Very well done S'land. !
It is indeed the one-off Liuchow Kwangsi Type Three ( From the Liuchow Mechanical and Aircraft Factory, Kwangsi Province)
It was powered by a Cheetah and flew around July 1937.
Your tenacity paid off
You have control.
It is indeed the one-off Liuchow Kwangsi Type Three ( From the Liuchow Mechanical and Aircraft Factory, Kwangsi Province)
It was powered by a Cheetah and flew around July 1937.
Your tenacity paid off
You have control.
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See, I said it would be easy. Well done Dick Whittingham.
The Caproni – Campini N.1. / CC 2 was an Italian, two seat, experimental Motor-jet aircraft designed by Engineer Secondo Campini (who later went to the U.S.A. and worked on the YB-49 Flying Wing Bomber) and built by Caproni. It employed a Isotta Fraschini radial engine which drove a variable pitch, ducted fan compressor. Additional fuel could be burnt in the tailpipe to increase thrust. The N.1. / CC 2 first flew on 27 August 1940 at Taliedo with Mario de Bernadi at the controls. This made Italy the second nation to fly a jet aircraft. In September 1942 the project was put into storage.
Two prototypes (MM447 and MM448) and a non-flying ground test-bed were manufactured. After WWII MM447 was taken to the RAE at Farnborough for study. The second is on display at the Museo Storico Dell’aeronautica Militaire Vigna di Valle near Rome. The ground test-bed is in the Museo della Scienza technical in Milan.
Some interesting pictures and info here:
CC-2
Open House.
The Caproni – Campini N.1. / CC 2 was an Italian, two seat, experimental Motor-jet aircraft designed by Engineer Secondo Campini (who later went to the U.S.A. and worked on the YB-49 Flying Wing Bomber) and built by Caproni. It employed a Isotta Fraschini radial engine which drove a variable pitch, ducted fan compressor. Additional fuel could be burnt in the tailpipe to increase thrust. The N.1. / CC 2 first flew on 27 August 1940 at Taliedo with Mario de Bernadi at the controls. This made Italy the second nation to fly a jet aircraft. In September 1942 the project was put into storage.
Two prototypes (MM447 and MM448) and a non-flying ground test-bed were manufactured. After WWII MM447 was taken to the RAE at Farnborough for study. The second is on display at the Museo Storico Dell’aeronautica Militaire Vigna di Valle near Rome. The ground test-bed is in the Museo della Scienza technical in Milan.
Some interesting pictures and info here:
CC-2
Open House.
You have control.
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When this aircraft was constructed, the aviation industries of Western Europe were facing some rather more immediate design considerations than those of air racing. Indeed one can see Sopwith fighter practice hinted at ( e.g. in the undercarriage and struts) in this machine's features.
Also evident is what made this aircraft particularly historically significant.
Also evident is what made this aircraft particularly historically significant.