Lot 51 - 1927 Ca60 TRANSAERO (often referred to as the ‘Noviplano‘ or ‘Capronissimo‘)
Lot 54 - 1933 Ca102 small three-view drawing in ink and a Ca-? unknown bombing aircraft
Lot 65 - 1937 Ca171, 'Vista di Fianco’, ‘Vista in Pianta', and ‘Vista di Fronte’
Lot 80 - 1941 Ca F6M (Alpha engine), 1940 F6Z (IF engine), and 1942 a F6M ’tre-vista’
Lot 86 - Correspondence, press cuttings, telegrams and other material
Lot 87 - 1947 Ca191 twin engined post war transport aircraft (Isotta Frashini Delta III)
Lot 90 - 1943 Caproni Arciere II, ‘Tre Viste’ and various other technical drawings
Lot 91A - An old facsimile WWII letter from Mussolini, photographs, and a further letter
Lot 95 - Caproni correspondance with Nosari, Cavagnari, and Cambilargiu
Useful Terms
Sezione Longitudinale and Vista in Franco are side views
Sezione Orizontale and Vista in Pianta are plan views
Vista di Fronte-front view
Tre Vista-three views
Modellino Aerodinamico-wind tunnel model
Baricentro-weight and balance
Idrovolante-Seaplane/ flying boat
Aerobatic-aerobatic
Prove-tests
Silurante-Torpedo
Engineer Campini is one of the pioneers of the jet engine. Having demonstrated a jet-powered boat, on Venice Lagoon in 1932, Campini was supported by the Italian Air Ministry to work with the Caproni Company to develop a jet aircraft (the resulting design Caproni CC2, or N1 flew successfully in 1940). Although Campini's engine differed from the modern jet, in that it compressed the air with a petrol engine rather than turbines, the reactive force of the burning gases produced the thrust which propelled the aircraft, so is considered a true jet.
A Private Collection of Bank Notes and Coins
Lots 247-315
The next two lots of are probably the earliest of Caproni’s sketches to have survived. They show the young engineer trying out ideas for flying machines. There are 24 pieces altogether, mostly on both sides of thin cheap paper. The sketches are done in pencil- with various calculations- and doodles. Many of the rough designs seem, through our retrospective eyes, to be hopelessly impractical. Although one contemporary viewer-Louis Bleriot- (Caproni had worked with Bleriot in 1910) has commented on one sketch (no.1) ‘Dearest Caproni what have you done?’
Generale Felice Porro (1891-1975)
An important figure in Italian Aviation, Porro was a pilot and associate with Caproni D’Annunzio, Balbo and the other prominent aviators. He was a prolific writer, and an enthusiastic observer, of all aviation subjects from its earliest days to the 1970s.
The following four lots detail experimental projects from 1942-44.