Caproni Ca.67

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Caproni Ca.67
RoleNight bomber aircraft
National origin Italy
Manufacturer Caproni
First flight1923
Number built2
Variants Caproni Ca.66

The Caproni Ca.66 and Caproni Ca.67 were Italian night bomber aircraft designed to re-equip the post-World War I Regia Aeronautica.

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Design and development

The Ca.66 was a well built wooden aircraft with ply veneer and fabric covering, intended to carry out night bombing. The single-bay inverted sesquiplane wings were braced with streamlined struts and wires and were characterized by their squared off wing-tips, constant chord, and moderate 3° 30' dihedral on the lower mainplanes. The square section fuselage, rounded off at the nose, housed the four crew in three open cockpits with pilot and co-pilot side by side. At the aft end of the fuselage a large triangular fin, with rudder, supported the biplane tailplanes, which were also strut-braced. The tail-skid undercarriage had mainwheels on divided axles, strut-supported beneath the engines and attached to the lower longerons of the fuselage. Controls were conventional with elevators on upper and lower tailplanes, large horn-balanced rudder and horn balanced ailerons on the lower wings only. [1]

The Ca.67 was similar to the Caproni Ca.66 in overall design and span but differed in having 2 Lorraine-Dietrich 12Db engines and increased payload. Flight tests offered no real improvement in performance over the Ca.66, and the Regia Aeronautica did not order the aircraft into production. [1]

Variants

Ca.66
Inverted sesquiplane bomber powered by four 200–220 hp (150–160 kW) SPA 6A engines in strut-supported tandem pair nacelles between the mainplanes; one built.
Ca.67
A Ca.66 powered by two 400 hp (300 kW) Lorraine-Dietrich 12Db (Isotta Fraschini 12Db?) engines in tractor nacelles mounted on the lower mainplanes; one built.

Specifications (Ca.67)

Data from , [2] Aeroplani Caproni dal 1908 al 1935 [1]

General characteristics

Performance

Armament

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Caproni, Gianni (1937). Aeroplani Caproni dal 1908 al 1935 (in Italian). Milan: Edizioni d'arte Emilio Bestetti. pp. 168–174.
  2. "Caproni Ca.67". Airwar.ru. Retrieved 2019-02-03.