Caproni Ca.103
Ca.103 | |
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Role | Bomber Type of aircraft |
Manufacturer | Caproni |
First flight | 1929 |
Number built | 1 |
The Caproni Ca.103 was a biplane twin-engine bomber developed by the Italian company Aeronautica Caproni in the late 1920s.
Design
The Ca.103 had a fuselage, with a rectangular section and made of welded tubes, that integrated the two-seater closed cockpit placed at the wing connection edge and intercommunicating with the three positions for machine guns and pointer. On the rear, it ended up with a single drift fletching equipped with horizontal counter-braced sesquiplane planes, connected to each other by a pair of "V-shaped" uprights, and with the lower plane with adjustable incidence in flight. The wing configuration was sesquiplane inverted with neutral scaling, ie with a higher wing plane with a significantly shorter opening and positioned directly above the lower one, the latter being the only one with a differential slit aileron . The wings, both characterized by a sensitive positive dihedral angle, were connected to each other by a series of riser pairs in Warren truss configuration. The landing gear had a fixed classic tricycle configuration, with a front element with an interrupted axle and an elastic upright, with uncovered wheels equipped with brakes, integrated at the back by a swiveling support wheel which was also elastically cushioned.[1]
Specifications
Data from Aeroplani Caproni dal 1908 al 1935[2]
General characteristics
- Length: 14.5 m (47 ft 7 in)
- Wingspan: 23 m (75 ft 6 in)
- Height: 6 m (19 ft 8 in)
- Wing area: 130 m2 (1,400 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 4,200 kg (9,259 lb)
- Gross weight: 6,700 kg (14,771 lb)
- Powerplant: 2 × Fiat A.24 V-12 water-cooled piston engines, 560 kW (750 hp) each
- Propellers: 2-bladed pusher and tractor propellers
Performance
- Maximum speed: 200 km/h (120 mph, 110 kn)
- Service ceiling: 6,000 m (20,000 ft)
Armament
- Guns: 3 × 7.7 mm (0.303 in) machine guns
- Bombs: 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) of bombs
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WW1 Military designations |
Bergamaschi (CAB)
- PL.3
- PS.1
- AP.1
- Ca.135
- Ca.301
- Ca.302
- Ca.303
- Ca.304
- Ca.305
- Ca.306
- Ca.307
- Ca.308
- Ca.308 Borea
- Ca.309
- Ca.310
- Ca.311
- Ca.312
- Ca.313
- Ca.314
- Ca.315
- Ca.316
- Ca.3171
- Ca.318
- Ca.3191
- Ca.320
- Ca.321-3241
- Ca.325
- Ca.326-3291
- Ca.330
- Ca.331
- Ca.332
- Ca.333
- Ca.3341
- Ca.335
- Ca.336-3391
- Ca.340
- Ca.341-3441
- Ca.345
- Ca.346-3491
- Ca.350
- Ca.3511
- Ca.352
- Ca.353-3541
- Ca.355
- Ca.356
- Ca.357
- Ca.358
- Ca.3591
- Ca.360
- Ca.361-3641
- Ca.365
- Ca.366-3691
- Ca.370
- Ca.371-3741
- Ca.375
- Ca.376-3791
- Ca.380
- Ca.381
- Ca.702