The Breeze Ooze Bird is a single-seat, tailless light glider designed and built by F. Breeze at Perranporth, Cornwell, UK.
It was first flown from the sand dunes at Perranporth, using an auto-tow launch, in 1961.
Remained still with the Cornish Gliding Club in 1970.
The early 1930s Breese Aircraft Model R-6-C was re-modelled by Russel H. Lawson of Portland, carrying four passengers in the cabin, with the pilot in the open, rear cockpit.
Engine: Wright R-975 Whirlwind, 330 hp
Designed by Ing Generale Gaetano Arturo Crocco and Ing Giulio Cesare Costanzi who worked for the Italian military the 1929 Breda CC.20 trimotor monoplane bomber had a 42m span and IF Asso A.500 power. One prototype was built.
CC.2000 was an alternative designation for the CC.20 (based on total installed horsepower).
Built in the 1930s, the Breda CC.3000 trimotor monoplane was a more powerful derivative of the CC.20.
As part of its efforts to get back into aircraft manufacturing following the war, Breda commissioned Mario Pittoni to develop a twin-engine medium transport designated the Breda-Pittoni B.P.471. The prototype first flew in 1950. It was an all-metal twin-engine monoplane of stressed-skin construction. It had a retractable tricycle undercarriage and wings were of an inverted-gull configuration, this allowed the main landing gear to be short and light. The cabin had room for 18-passengers or freight. The company proposed many uses for the aircraft including a civil airliner and freighter, military navigation trainer or utility freighter. With no interest from buyers the prototype was operated by the Italian Air Ministry as a staff transport until retired in 1954.
B.P.471
Engines: 2 × Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 Twin Wasp, 890 kW (1,200 hp) each (take off power), 780 kW (1,050 hp) at 2,300 m (7,500 ft)
Length: 17.5 m (57 ft 5 in)
Wingspan: 23.0 m (75 ft 6 in)
Height: 5.75 m (18 ft 10 in)
Empty weight: 5400 kg
Gross weight: 10,000 kg (22,046 lb)
Maximum speed: 473 km/h (294 mph; 255 kn) at 3000 m
Cruising speed: 412 km/h (256 mph; 222 kn)
Range: 2,000 km (1,243 mi; 1,080 nmi) at 395 km/h (245 mph; 213 kn)
Service ceiling: 7,500 m (24,606 ft)
Time to altitude: 9 min 39 sec to 4,000 m (13,100 ft)
Crew: 2
Capacity: 18 passengers
Designed by Filippo Zappata, the 1948 Breda-Zappata BZ.308 was a four engined airliner evolved from the Zappata Z.511/BZ.305. The BZ.308 was designed primarily for trans-Atlantic services between Italy and the Latin American countries, and four were ordered by Argentina.
Powered by four 1750 hp Bristol Centaurus 568 radials, one prototype was built, employed by the Italian Air Ministry.
Engines: four 1750 hp Bristol Centaurus 568
Wing span: 138 ft 2 in / 33.50m
Length: 110 ft
Empty weight: 50,706 lb
Loaded weight: 79,366 lb
M ax speed: 311 mph
Cruise: 262 mph
Crew: 5
Passengers: 55
Filippo Zappata, responsible for the C.R.D.A. Cant series of bombers, joined the Breda design staff in 1941, and was subsequently responsible for several interesting projects, few of which were actually built.
The Breda- Zappata BZ.301 was a projected medium bomber derived from the Cant Z.1018 Leone. It was accepted for production but none were completed.
The Breda BZ.303 was a projected night fighter derived from the Cant Z.1018 bomber. The Bz 303 was a sleek two-seat, low-wing monoplane of mixed construction with twin fins and rudders. Power was provided by two 1,450-h.p. Piaggio P.XV R.C.60j2V radials, and the exceptionally heavy armament of eight 20-mm. Mauser cannon (four firing forwards and four firing to the rear) and a 12.7-mm. machine gun in a dorsal position. Maximum speed was 360 m.p.h., and range was 963 miles. The sole prototype was under construction in 1943 but was scrapped after the armistice.
BZ.303
Engines: 2 x 1,450 hp Piaggio P.XV R.C.60
Armament: 8 x 20 mm + 1 x 12.7 mm
Another Breda design that progressed no further than the prototype stage was the Ba 201, which designation was, during the war years, erroneously applied to a supposed Italian-built version of the Ju 87B. In fact, although undoubtedly influenced by Junkers trends, the Ba 201 was an entirely original design.
The first mock-up built placed the cockpit at the rear with an IF Asso V-12. A second scheme had a forward-placed cockpit, IF Asso V-12 then 1,050 hp DB601 engine.
One prototype dive bomber (MM.451) flew July 1941, powered by a 1,050-h.p. DB 601 engine and featuring an inverted gull wing and retractable undercarriage. The Ba 201 was tested at Guidonia in 1940-41 but considered too slow without a gunner.
Engine: 1 x 1,175 hp DB 601A
Span: 13 m
Bombload: 1 x 500 kg
Seats: 1
Initially, the prototype (MM.302) was flown with a single fin and rudder assembly, but poor stability necessitated the adoption of a rather cumbersome twin fin and rudder arrangement which marred the Ba 88s otherwise good aerodynamic form. The 1936 prototype was powered by two 900-h.p. Isotta-Fraschini K.14 radials and was one of the fastest aircraft in its class at the time of its appearance. A hybrid structure with stressed metal skin, shoulder-wing monoplane, the Lince had a structure of steel tube with a light metal outer skin.
Modified in 1937, the Breda Ba 88 Lince prototype, in December of that year, established several international records (with a load of 2,205 lb. flying 62 miles (100 km.) at 344.5 mph, and 621 miles (1,000 km.) at 326.3 mph).
Production orders for the Ba 88 were placed for the Regia Aeronautica and assembly lines were established by both Breda and 1.M.A.M. (Meridionali) with deliveries commencing late in 1938.
Regarded as an aeroplano di combattimento, suitable for attack, long-range reconnaissance or bombing operations, the Ba.88 then had its military equipment and weapons installed. Immediately, performance and flight characteristics fell off dramatically, but by then production orders were already in place. Bombs could be carried either in a bomb bay or semi-externally in recesses under the belly, and the Ba.88 could carry a 1000kg bomb load and four machine guns, three firing forward and a flexible gun in the rear cockpit. A window in the floor aided the pilot in aiming the bombs.
The production version featured considerable redesign and was powered by two 1,0000h.p. Piaggio P.XI R.C.40 radials which provided a maximum speed of 304 mph. Eight Ba.88 bicomando two-seat trainer version were built, with a raised instructor’s seat.
The first unit to receive the Ba 88 was the 7th Gruppo, which arrived in North Africa in September 1940.
On 16 June 1940, just after Italy’s declaration of war on France and her allies, the twelve Ba.88 aircraft from the Regia Aeronautica’s 19° Gruppo Autonomo made bombing and machine-gun attacks on the principal airfields of Corsica; three days later nine Ba.88s made a repeat attack. Analysis of these operations showed that the Ba,88 had only limited value, and any remaining doubts were settled when Ba.88s of the 7° Gruppo Autonomo joined action in Libya against the British. Fitted with sand filters, the engines overheated and failed to deliver their designed power. Attacks on targets at Sidi Barram had to be aborted in September 1940, the aircraft failing to gain sufficient altitude or maintain formation, and reaching a speed less than half that claimed by the manufacturers. The Ba 88 being taken out of production after only 105 aircraft had been built. Eighty-one by Breda and twenty-four by IMAM Meridionali.
In 1938 a Ba.88 bis was proposed with two Alfa Romeo 135 engines for the Caccia Combattimento competiton. It was not proceeded with.
By mid-November 1940 most surviving Ba.88s had been stripped of useful equipment and were scattered around operational airfields as decoys for attacking British aircraft.
In 1941 Agusta substituted two 840-h.p. Fiat A.74 R.C.38 radials for the Piaggios, increased wing span by 2.00m and fuselage length, and began the construction of a small series under the designation Ba 88M as ground-attack aircraft. Nose armament was increased to four 12.7mm machine-guns, and dive brakes were installed. Only three aircraft of this type were completed. These Breda Ba.88Ms were delivered to the 103° Gruppo Autonomo Tuffatori (independent dive-bombing group) at Lonate Pozzolo on 7 September 1943. They were flight-tested by Luftwaffe pilots, but that was the last heard of the Breda Ba.88.
A total of 149 were built.
Breda Ba.88 Lince
Engine: 2 x Piaggio P.XI RC 40, 986 hp
Length: 35.4 ft / 10.79 m
Height: 10.171 ft / 3.1 m
Wingspan: 51.181 ft / 15.6 m
Wing area: 358.872 sq.ft / 33.34 sq.m
Max take off weight: 14883.8 lb / 6750.0 kg
Weight empty: 10253.3 lb / 4650.0 kg
Max. speed: 265 kts / 490 km/h
Service ceiling: 26247 ft / 8000 m
Wing load: 41.41 lb/sq.ft / 202.0 kg/sq.m
Range: 871 nm / 1614 km
Armament: 3x MG 12,7mm BredaSAFAT, 1x MG 7,7mm Breda SAFAT, 1000kg Bomb. int. / 3x200kg Bomb. ext.
In response to the competition organized by the Italian Air Ministry in 1934 for a Terrestrial Bomber Fast, Breda developed the model “82” consisting of a very compact medium bomber. The construction was all-metal, and powered by two radial Fiat A.80 RC 41 1000 Hp engines.
Its development was slow and not without its difficulties, but it was brought out at the Air Show in Milan in 1937, but now the military thought that his was dated. Continuous trouble with the engines made that flight tests would start in 1939, but the competition decided on the Fiat BR.20 and now focused on three-engine medium bombers.
Engines: 2 x Fiat A.80 R.C.41, 1,000 hp
Wingspan: 20.80m
Wing area: 66.00 sq.m
Length: 13.80 m
Height: 4.00 m
Empty weight: 6840 kg
Max weight: 10040 kg
Useful load: 3200 kg
Max speed: 425 km/h at 4000 m
Ceiling: 9940 m
Time to 4000 m: 12 min 14 sec
Time to 5000 m: 15 min 15 sec
Armament: 2 x Breda – SAFAT 12.7 mm machine guns
Bombload: 1000 kg
Crew: 4-5 men
A 1936 single-engined high-wing cabin monoplane. The basic Ba.79 model, I-ABFU, was powered by one 200 hp Alfa-Romeo 115 air-cooled 6-cyl inline engine. With one crew and room for three passengers, the wing span was 11.61 m
At least 2 examples of Ba.79S, I-ABFT and I-ABFZ, were built.
