Two prototypes of the Fiat CR.1 biplane fighter, designed by Celestino Rosatelli, were flown in 1923, and the type was selected for large- scale production for the newly formed Regia Aeronautica. First deliveries of an eventual 240 production aircraft, designated CR.1, began in 1925. During the 1930s many Italian CR.1s were given more powerful Isotta Fraschini engines, and these were to continue in service until 1937. Nine aircraft were exported to Latvia. The Fiat CR.2, CR.5 and CR. 10 were variants of the basic aircraft fitted with different engines, usually on an experimental basis.
Fiat CR.1 Engine: 1 x 300hp Hispano-Suiza 42 8-cylinder Take-off weight: 1154 kg / 2544 lb Wingspan: 8.95 m / 29 ft 4 in Length: 6.16 m / 20 ft 3 in Height: 2.40 m / 7 ft 10 in Max. Speed: 272 km/h / 169 mph Ceiling: 7450 m / 24450 ft Armament: 2 x 7.7mm machine guns
The Fiat G.8 was a military utility aircraft produced in Italy in the mid-1930s. Its design and production were undertaken at the CMASA works in Pisa which became part of Fiat in 1930, hence the type is sometimes referred to as the CMASA G.8 or Fiat-CMASA G.8.
Designed by Giuseppe Gabrielli, it was a conventional biplane design with staggered wings of unequal span braced by struts arranged in a Warren truss. The pilot and a single passenger (or instructor) sat in tandem open cockpits, and the aircraft was fitted with fixed tailskid undercarriage with divided main units.
The prototype first flew on 24 February 1934, sixty more of these aircraft were purchased by the Regia Aeronautica and used for liaison and training duties. They were retired in 1950.
Powerplant: 1 × Fiat A.54, 99 kW (135 hp) Wingspan: 8.76 m (28 ft 9 in) Wing area: 18.9 m2 (203 sq ft) Length: 7.00 m (23 ft 0 in) Height: 2.50 m (8 ft 2 in) Empty weight: 560 kg (1,230 lb) Gross weight: 840 kg (1,850 lb) Maximum speed: 212 km/h (132 mph, 115 kn) Range: 925 km (575 mi, 500 nmi) Service ceiling: 5,200 m (17,100 ft) Crew: one, pilot Capacity: one passenger
From 1904-1906, Ferber collaborated with Colonel Charles Renard at Chalais-Meudon. In 1905, he built a larger glider to which he married a 12 hp motor, and on 25 May at Chalais -Meudon he launched it from an overhead cable and made a short powered glide. Although not really a successful airplane, it seems to rank as the first rationally conceived and constructed airplane to fly in Europe.
The Felixstowe F.5 is a four-seater seaplane of British maritime reconnaissance aircraft developed at the end of the First World War. Designed to combine the same payload and the operating range of the Felixstowe F.3 with qualities of handiness and the performances of the Felixstowe F.2a. The last aircraft designed by John C. Door, the prototype, N90, first flew in May 1918, the aircraft met expectations, the hull supporting maritime conditions of the North Sea, and production was launched.
To accelerate production and for economic reasons, The F.5 adopted many elements already built for the F.3. Preserving practically only the hull of the prototype, with the aerofoil and the engines of the F.3, the craft had performances lower than the prototype, the F.2a, and even than the F.3.
F.5 entered service only after the First World War ended, and replaced in the RAF the Felixstowe F.2a, F.3 and Curtiss H-16 . It became the standard aircraft of the RAF until the commissioning of the Supermarine Southampton in 1925. Nine squadrons were in the RAF equipped with the F.5.
The U.S. Navy was interested in Felixstowe F.5 but wished that the craft be produced in the United States and tailored to their needs. Parts were delivered to Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, in March 1918, and work began immediately. The Rolls-Royce Eagle were replaced by Liberty. The F5L the prototype made its first flight July 15, 1918. Often wrongly called Curtiss F.5L, 227 were built:
The F.5L remained in service in the U.S. Navy until replaced in 1928 by the PN-12, used for coastal patrols or missions of coastal artillery adjustment.
Between 1920 and 1921, the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company subsidiary Aeromarine Airways, used 8 F.5L surplus from the U.S. Navy. Equipped for the transport of 10 passengers, these were sometimes called Navy Cruiser and were used in November 1920, between Key West , Florida and Havana , Cuba . One of these seaplanes, from the 1st November 1920, flew the first international air mail service on behalf of the U.S. Post Office. Aeromarine Airways also flew the seasonal services Miami – Bimini – Nassau , New York City – Atlantic City and Cleveland – Detroit from July 14, 1922. These were named Santa Maria / Wolverine, Pinta, Niña, Columbus, Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Buckeye and Mendoza. The latter is famous for having flown over New York with 27 people on board in May 1922.
In 1920, Shorts Bros. export some F.5 to Japan, which then bought a license. The arsenal of Yokosuka to build 10, Aichi 40 and arsenal Hiro 10 before developing in 1927 from F.5 Hiro Type 15 (Hiro H1H).
In 1919, NAF built two F.5L [A4036/4037] with a significantly larger surface modified empennage. This tail will be adopted retroactively on F.5L in service.
In March 1919 Naval Aircraft Factory dispatched to New York City a F.5L specially designed for display. An aeronautical exhibition was organized by the Association of Manufacturers and the cell Aeronefs exposure would allow the public to understand how construtction device. So it was a cutaway that should not fly, but he was still a seral number [A-3882]. Transferred to the Smithsonian Institution in 1920, he became well cumbersome when it was decided ten years later to renovate the building that housed. The Smithsonian therefore proposed to return to the U.S. Navy, and this proposal was accepted, but the Smithsonian finally kept the hull, a wing float, a propeller and a bomb. The U.S. Navy had shelled the rest is all that remains today of the family seaplane designed by John C. Door , with the front part of an unidentified aircraft maintained by the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum of Flixton, in Great Britain .
Felixstowe F.5 Engines: 2 x Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII, 345 hp Wingspan: 31.6 m Length: 15.0 m Height: 5.7 m Wing area: 131 sq.m Empty weight: 4136 kg Loaded weight: 5765 kg Maximum Speed: 142 km / h Ceiling: 2070 m Range: 840 km Armament: 4 Lewis 7.7 mm Bombload: 418 kg Crew: 4
F-5-L Engines: Two 400-horsepower Liberty 12A Wingspan: 31.6 m (103 ft 9 in) Length: 15 m (49 ft 4 in) Height: 5.7 m (18 ft 9 in) Weight: Empty, 3,955 kg (8,720 lb) Gross, 6,169 kg (13,600 lb)
Porte designed the F.3, a slightly enlarged variant of the F.2, which was put into production. The F.3 soon proved to be inferior in many respects to the F.2, but by the time this was realized full scale production was well under way and could not be halted. This accent on F.3 production inadvertently prevented full importance being given to Porte’s final biplane flying boat design, the F.5.
Span: 31 m (102 ft) (upper), 22.6 m (74 ft 2 in) (lower) Length: 15 m (49 ft 3in) Height: 5.7 m (18 ft 8 in) Maximum speed: 150 km/h (93 mph) at 609.5 m (2000 ft).
The 1927 Aecherli Pfau 7 wood and canvas biplane training glider was designed by Hermann Aecherli and Willy Farner with the upper wing with semi-Warren truss bracing, and ‘bathtub’ cockpit.
The prime constructor was Aecherli Hermann of Fällanden. Only the one was built.
Wingspan: 8.20 m Length: 4.6 m Wing area: 15.2 sq.m Empty weight: 50 kg Max weight: 120 kg Wing loading: 8 kg/sq.m Best glide: 7.5 Seats: 1
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