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Caproni Ca.9
Single-engine monoplane designed and built by Caproni in the early 1910s From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Caproni Ca.9 was a single-engine monoplane designed and built by Caproni in the early 1910s.
Design
The Ca.9 was very similar to the Caproni Ca.8 in being a modern high wing monoplane with a wooden structure and canvas covering, equipped with a wing warping system to control roll and reinforced by metal tie rods connected to the fuselage and to a special structure placed above it; the fuselage was based on a wooden lattice structure, in turn reinforced by metal cables, and was covered in cloth only for the front half; the same wooden structure with a canvas covering characterized the empennage.
The fixed undercarriage, was composed of two wheels with curved skids. The engine, which operated a fixed-pitch, two-bladed wooden propeller, was a Y-shaped three-cylinder Anzani capable of developing a power output of 35 hp (26 kW).[1]
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Career
Flown for the first time in the summer of 1911, the Ca.9 served at the flying school annexed to the Caproni workshops in Vizzola Ticino; on 20 January 1912, piloted by Enrico Cobioni, an instructor at the Caproni school, the Ca.9 beat the world speed record for aircraft with less than 40 hp (30 kW).[2]
Specifications
Data from Gli aeroplani Caproni – Studi – Progetti – Realizzazioni 1908-1935,[1] Aeroplani Caproni – Gianni Caproni ideatore e costruttore di ali italiane[3]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
- Wingspan: 8.88 m (29 ft 2 in)
- Height: 3 m (9 ft 10 in)
- Wing area: 16 m2 (170 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 220 kg (485 lb)
- Gross weight: 385 kg (849 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Anzani 3-cyl air-cooled radial piston engine, 26 kW (35 hp)
- Propellers: 2-bladed wooden fixed-pitch propeller
Performance
- Maximum speed: 90 km/h (56 mph, 49 kn)
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References
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