By David Mondey
This colourful and compact quantity presents an invaluable consultant to the airplane synthetic by way of the Axis nations of WWII, together with Messerschmitt AG, Kawasaki, and Fiat.
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1007bis of 230a Squadriglia, 95° Gruppo. 1007bis of the 260a Squadriglia, 106° Gruppo. 60 Moth, but incorporating some minor differences in detail design, including an increased-span lower wing, the Caproni Ca 100 was built in some numbers for civil and military use from 1929. 63 and the 85-hp (63-kW) Fiat A50. A twinfloat seaplane version, 30 of which were built by Macchi, was known as the Ca 100 Idro, and in 1934 a light bombing trainer was built, powered by a 130-hp (97-kW) radial engine and able to carry four small bombs.
506B Airone (heron), was shown at the Milan Aeronautical Exhibition in October 1937. This had a stepped, extensively glazed tandem two-seat cockpit and a ventral gondola which contained the bomb aimer's position and the bomb bay, immediately behind which was a gunner's position. 506B was built at Cant's Monfalcone and Finale Ligure Factories, and by Piaggio under licence. 55 engines set aload-to-heightrecord of 33,318 ft (10155 m) with a 2,205-lb (loo0-kg) payload, and then flew 4,362 miles (7020 km) nonstop from Cadiz to Carevalas.
However, the project was retained at Ponte San Pietro and the prototype, completed in early 1935, was flown for the first time on 1 April. Powered by two 800-hp 597-kW) Isotta Fraschini Asso XI RC radial engines, he Ca 135 was of mixed construction, with a stressedskin forward fuselage and a wood- and fabric-covered 'elded steel-tube rear section, the wing being a metal and wood structure with fabric and wood covering. Production Ca 135s had three-blade metal propellers in tead of the two-blade wooden propellers of the prototype.