Caproni Ca.7

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Caproni Ca.7

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Caproni Ca.7

Side view of Caproni Ca.7
Role	Pioneering aircraft Type of aircraft
Manufacturer	Caproni
First flight	Never flew
Status	Paper project only
Number built	0

The Caproni Ca.7 was a proposed biplane designed by Caproni in the early 1910s.

Design

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The Ca.7 was an all-wood biplane equipped with a double horizontal fletching system, mounted respectively at the front and rear ends of the fuselage . The project involved the installation of two "tandem" engines inside the fuselage, which would have to accommodate, in addition to the pilot (housed at the front end, just behind the bow landing), two passengers (seated behind the engines).^[1]

The aircraft had two pushing propellers, driven by chain drive devices from the engines housed in the fuselage; the two engines were connected by friction clutches, so that they could work together or separately. Precisely because of the design difficulties involved in the use of two engines, both housed in the fuselage, one at a time should have been turned off, even in flight, for cooling needs, but prevented the construction of the airplane, which therefore he remained at the project stage.^[2]

Although, the Ca.7 never left the drawing board, its design contributed to the development of the multiengine Caproni bombers of World War I.

Specifications

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Data from Aeroplani Caproni – Gianni Caproni ideatore e costruttore di ali italiane^[1]

General characteristics

Crew: 2
Capacity: 2 passengers
Length: 9.65 m (31 ft 8 in)
Wingspan: 12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Height: 3 m (9 ft 10 in)
Wing area: 36 m² (390 sq ft)
Empty weight: 475 kg (1,047 lb)
Gross weight: 675 kg (1,488 lb)
Powerplant: 2 × Rebus 50hp 4-cyl in-line water-cooled piston engines, 37 kW (50 hp) each
Propellers: 2-bladed fixed pitch propellers

Performance

References

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^ ^a ^b Abate, Rosario; Alegi, Gregory; Apostolo, Giorgio (1992). Aeroplani Caproni – Gianni Caproni ideatore e costruttore di ali italiane (in Italian) (Italian (also available in English) ed.). Museo Caproni. p. 241.
^ TL Barbero, the one hundred Caproni Airplanes 1909-1930, in Aeronautics - International monthly magazine, pp. 12-13, ISBN not existing.

Caproni aircraft

Establishments
Taliedo

Company WW1 HP designations	80 hp 260 hp 300 hp 350 hp 450 hp 600 hp 700 hp 750 hp 750 hp (2) 900 hp 1,200 hp
Numerical designation sequence^2,³	Ca.1 Ca.2 Ca.3 Ca.4 Ca.5 Ca.6 Ca.7 Ca.8 Ca.9 Ca.10 Ca.11 Ca.12 Ca.13 Ca.14 Ca.15 Ca.16 Ca.17 Ca.18 Ca.19 Ca.20 Ca.21 Ca.22 Ca.23 Ca.24 Ca.25 Ca.26 Ca.27 Ca.28 Ca.29 Ca.30 Ca.31 Ca.32 Ca.33 Ca.34 Ca.35 Ca.36 Ca.37 Ca.38 Ca.39 Ca.40 Ca.41 Ca.42 Ca.43 Ca.44 Ca.45 Ca.46 Ca.47 Ca.48 Ca.49 Ca.50 Ca.51 Ca.52 Ca.53 Ca.54 Ca.55 Ca.56a Ca.57 Ca.58 Ca.59 Ca.60 Ca.61 Ca.62 Ca.63 Ca.64 Ca.65 Ca.66 Ca.67 Ca.68 Ca.69 Ca.70 Ca.71 Ca.72 Ca.73 Ca.74 Ca.75 Ca.76 Ca.77 Ca.78 Ca.79 Ca.80 Ca.81 Ca.82 Ca.83 Ca.84 Ca.85 Ca.86 Ca.87 Ca.88 Ca.89 Ca.90 Ca.91 Ca.92 Ca.93 Ca.94 Ca.95 Ca.96 Ca.97 Ca.98 Ca.99 Ca.100 Ca.101 Ca.102 Ca.103 Ca.104 Ca.105 Ca.106 Ca.107 Ca.108 Ca.109 Ca.110 Ca.111 Ca.112 Ca.113 Ca.114 Ca.115 Ca.116 Ca.117 Ca.118 Ca.119 Ca.120 Ca.121 Ca.122 Ca.123 Ca.124 Ca.125 Ca.126 Ca.127 Ca.128 Ca.129 Ca.130 Ca.131 Ca.132 Ca.133 Ca.134 Ca.135 Ca.136 Ca.137 Ca.138-139¹ Ca.140 Ca.141 Ca.142 Ca.143 Ca.144-145¹ Ca.146 Ca.147¹ Ca.148 Ca.149¹ Ca.150 Ca.151 Ca.152¹ Ca.153 Ca.154 Ca.155 Ca.156 Ca.157-159¹ Ca.160 Ca.161 Ca.162 Ca.163 Ca.164 Ca.165 Ca.166 Ca.167 Ca.168¹ Ca.169 Ca.170-172¹ Ca.173 Ca.174¹ Ca.175 Ca.176 Ca.177 Ca.178¹ Ca.179 Ca.180-182¹ Ca.183 Ca.184 Ca.185¹ Ca.186 Ca.187-189¹ Ca.190 Ca.191 Ca.192¹ Ca.193 Ca.194 Ca.195 Ca.196 Ca.197 198-199¹ Ca.200¹ Ca.201 Ca.202-203¹ Ca.204 Ca.205 Ca.206¹ Ca.207 Ca.208-210¹ Ca.211 Ca.212-213¹ Ca.214 Ca.215¹ Ca.216 Ca.217-224¹ Ca.225
Names	Cinquemotore Transaereo Noviplano Capronissimo
WW1 Military designations	Ca.1 Ca.2 Ca.3 Ca.4 Ca.5