Caproni Ca.60 Noviplano flying boat (static display)

[ecomtek]

this is why italians shouldnt design planes man,, that shit is horrible and 8 V12 fucking engine to pull that bs off the ground?!! Woow..

[danielcarro100]

It was a ugly and unfortunated monster

[aleks070777]

Campari-Martini flying boat Look 1:28 :)))

[oldfart387]

Whenever you view a video from bomberguy, be sure to read the description! He always has good info there.

[davidrodgersNJ]

Did it actually fly?

[oldfart387]

@davidrodgersNJ It said in the description that it got up to 18m followed by a sudden stop, the water!

[diddymuck]

surprising bulk economy unfortunately sacrificing aesthetic value. Had he kept modifying two or three more times, we may have had Hughes' Albatross a few decades earlier.

[skiidahonorthsouth]

Love how the props are not far refined from the 2x8 boards they were made from.

[kdelaere]

This aircraft was a complete failure. Too heavy and too weak...

[EricBarbman]

Amazing document !

Thanks !



[ChickertyChina]

I imagine spin recovery wasn't great :)

[ChrisTevelvision]

I wish that someone would make this for fs2004!!!!! I would make it myself but I'm not good at making stuff like that.

[thra5herxb12s]

I saw footage of this hopping across the lake at speed then falling to pieces but i cant find it on the web

[dickandchristina]

Amazing clip. I have an original newpaper article re this airplane that includes a still photo. It is wonderful to actually see movies of this .... thing.

[discovery110]

he crash

[greenseaships]

1:27. Check out the guy drinking on the wing. Is that how they got someone to fly this thing? LOL

[NVanWendy]

It's said that Fokker would design his aircraft by eye, rather than with a slide rule and mathematics. What looked good to his eye tended to fly well, as the allies found out in WW 1. How is it that something so preposterous as this made past the first sketch at the Caproni works? No instincts for design, I guess.

[LedZeppQueenBeatles]

magnificent aircraft, but people where stupid enough to think it would fly?

[thanotron1222]

@LedZeppQueenBeatles

actually... this thing totally flew...

[errolfan]

Looks really good. On paper.

[hamster700]

I read somewhere it took of and crashed it was massive

[paladinodimina11]

marvellous

[TheLastBrainLeft]

Had he waited 10 years, he could have acheived the same horsepower with two engines that he got here with 8.

Even if this thing could fly, the drag from those wings would limit speeds to not much more than an ocean liner.

[rentatrip1]

@TheLastBrainLeft -YES accumulated DRAG gathered by the rigging and to the aft of each wing section - then compounded into the next set of wings & then again for the third time- the second & third sets of wings would NOT produce any useable :LIFT - a flying anchor --- stupid wap ----

[switchbladefights82]

It looks like something out from a Victorian steampunk novel. lol

[ZemplinTemplar]

Oh, Caproni ! You made perfect bombers back in WWI and then... you manufactured this dud... Epic fail. :-P Well, you win some, you lose some...

[eugeniobb]

I know the story from a relative of the designer, what happened is that the workers in charge of tying the ballast to the passenger seats (san bags) did a poor job (and certainly not well supervised). After take off a large portion of the sand bags fell towards the aft section of the fuselage and the plane stalled. Not even a modern plane would make it if heavilly unbalanced towards the aft. The financial loss was to heavy to make another attempt.

[mackat4ck]

This would be cool for fsx.

[Dudeifyacation]

i know

[stormthorgerson]

did they really expect the weight of the wings to hold? something like that would be as unstable as a crappy paper airplane

[modelleg]

I'd have a snort, too, before I got into this thing.

[steveboston11]

A design like this probably could fly these days with computer fly-by wire control. Without that it would be impossible to control in pitch (which of course is exactly what happened). Pity they didn't know that back then.

[radioam232]

What did happen with this plane? Did it ever fly? Are there films in which this plane is flying? Very good and interesting video!

[mamtrol]

it flew once on a test flight over a lake. it got up to 60 feet then a tragic crash that killed both pilots

[Powertampa]

why the need to take everything to the edge?

[MrAmerica1995]

No one died, the only test pilot escaped the wreck.

[mamtrol]

are you sure? im almost positive they were fatalities. was your source of information? im just curious

[MrAmerica1995]

Wikipedia(I know, not very reliable), and I have a book called "Stupid History" which lists little known facts about history, and one of them was about the C.60, and it sais that the only pilot escaped. I'm not sure either, though. Oh, and the description of this video.

[Luceandbuio]

Non fu una buona idea...

[giovmari]

Yes, monster, but VERY dangerous in flight. An aircraft with this wings position is not dynamically stable ... gusts may jeopardize the safety

[skipjackbj]

I wonder who held the Insurance on this. And what the settlement was??

A little arson story maybe....?

[GMac171]

fantastic! Its amazing to see the development of aviation from years gone by

[sopfoknie]

Hi, Great footage! For fans of the giant Caproni, World War I Aero magazine featured a two-part article by Gregory Alegi on the history and surviving bits and pieces of this aircraft in issues #193 (Aug. 2006) and #194 (Nov. 2006).

Thanks for posting this and your other films as well!

Tom

[buellsteven]

FANTASTIC video,manny thanks.

This is verry rear

[burningsponge]

by the way, this is a magnifisent plane to bad it crashed it could've been in a meuseum<-[im not sure thats spelled right]

[burningsponge]

yup it isnt

[Aviazione]

Hy, thanks bomberguy for the video, the carrying surface of Ca.60 was about 750mq.

[smurfswacker]

What a magnificent monster! I read somewhere that people said the Caproni had a built-in headwind. Is there footage somewhere of its test flight?

[Bomberguy]

Not that I know of

[burningsponge]

wow where do you get these old videos from the 1920's, how about putting the wright brothers at kitty hawk. Y'know i have a b-17 and a b-29 model i can send to you. please reply

[oldfart387]

@Bomberguy She ain't pretty but......... well, she ain't pretty.

[popnsplat]

It crashed on its first flight. The pilot escaped, and the plane was recovered, but later burned in a fire.

Too bad, this is an amazing old machine.

[denberg2]

Keep 'em coming, Bomberguy!