Why hasn’t this thing been brought to the developers yet? We want it! It’s beautiful!
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WHAT?! ITALIAN WW2 ERALY JET WIHT AFTERBURNER AND A PROP?!!
ADD IT INMEDIATLY
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It’s beautiful….i want it
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A good ~6.7 along with the yet to be added Italian super props. I hope this goes into the TT. +1
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Our best bet for this plane is the dreams come true event, but you never know. +1 btw
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Well it makes sense why they tried to build this thing you do get a nice kick with the motor-jet and Italy did fly one earlier. Though this thing will be a performance hog and should go into the main tree just on the reason that every tree should try to have there wonder waffle vehicle prototype that never really panned out. Italy should get there wonder pasta
+1 She is Moving at 3 Times Normal Speed!
– A MC.200 Pilot after observing the Ca183 bis run down a P-51 in 1945 before its engine exploded from poor heat treated steel
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Wonder Waffle ❌❌❌
Wonder Pasta ✅✅✅
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+1
I wish I could find documents about the Caproni Campini N.1/C.C.1/C.C.2
having weapons but this would do
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Looks like no-one planned to put guns on the CC1 because the performances was shit.
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Was more or less a test frame to guarantee the concept worked. Funny enough Italy kind of was the first to put a “jet” into the sky though Germany had done there’s earlier in secrete and bit there tongue. Sure there is a Joke / Meme that could be made about that.
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Yeah but not as bad as what it is on the English Internet.
On the English speaking web, The speed is listed slower than what it actually was but still the max speed I could find was around 540KMPH. Not great for a Jet!
I just love the N.1/C.C.1/C.C.2 so much due to how terrible it is.
It looks like a flying cigar but for me the design does look surprisingly modern and outdated at the very same time.
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Max speed was 540 kmh but never tested irl because it would cause too much heat for the pilot (all the flights was made with open canopy and slow speed for that reason).
Also, it wasn’t a jet, but a motorjet.
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Also motorjet technology is sort of a dead end you gain non of the benefits of a jet (for Italy and Germany one was fuel) motorjet still needs high quality gasoline and a time consuming aircraft engine but at the time motorjet technology did give you a boost in speed. USA saw a short benefit for aircraft carriers as jet engines at the time had major issues it acceleration and reliability but that was solved reasonably fast.
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That is wrong actually! The N.1/C.C.1/C.C.2 was flown at its original max speed however this was only done once. To put a long story short the Italian Government told the pilot to basically “tough it out” as they wanted a propaganda number. subsequent flights after this had the canopy open. I personally think the N.1 could have had a faster top speed that remain undocumented as there were multiple occasions where it was demonstrated to visiting forces. eg The Hungarian demonstration that happened in 1941, see the picture.
Also to address the jet aspect. The N.1 and to extension the Ca183 bis can both be called “Jets” (more so a hybrid for the latter) as a motorjet does classify as a true Jet. It is the same as a turboprop in design but instead of having the turbine doing the compression, it is an engine. A very much stop-gap technology.
side note have a cool engine picture as I don’t think I will ever find armament information on the N.1. at least the Ca183 bis has a similar engine so it can help in modelling for that.
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doesn’t stop it being cool as shit tho!
It is kinda like how Germany late war was adamant on Pulse Jets on aircraft.
Cheap? yeah!
Effective? hell no!
And yes I understand that this is late war lack of resources.
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no it does not its just a interesting fact of history
She will be a speed demon when added
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Yearly reminder that the Ca.183bis is, in fact, NOT a jet, and does NOT have an afterburner.
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