Bermuda425 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 My Italian buddy Vincenzo is currently travelling through la Provincia di Vicenza and send me these pictures! The Stipa-Caproni, also generally called the Caproni Stipa, was an experimental Italian aircraft designed in 1932 by Luigi Stipa (1900–1992) and built by Caproni. It featured a hollow, barrel-shaped fuselage with the engine and propeller completely enclosed by the fuselage—in essence, the whole fuselage was a single ducted fan. Although the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force) was not interested in pursuing development of the Stipa-Caproni, its design was an important step in the development of jet propulsion. (Source and more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipa-Caproni) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurizio Giorgi Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 It's a funny airplane and his name also more! Stipa Caproni means to storage big goats, if you refer to the animals, but caproni also means very ignorant or stubborn people!! Beautiful pics!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-KDK Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Very interesting post Bermuda. A mighty strange aircraft too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I love these guys, having a very advanced vision, sought to put on the plane of reality theirs revolutionary ideas that will prove to be correct years ahead. It brings to mind the aesthetics of the years 1930-1940, reproduced (innocently) in the Walt Disney movie "Rocketeer"! Thanks Bermuda to show these scenes up! Ah! I almost forgot to "speak of flowers": wonderful scenery! Voyager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly37 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Caproni is also a airplanes constructor.... fun and nice pic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegaso Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 At my first glance i presumed a graphics anomaly. Never heard about that aircraft, and great that you introduced it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 53 years later and this is the first ever a see this aircraft. Always learning something new! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurizio Giorgi Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 That airplane is probably the result of a movement that started in Italy in 1911, "the futurism", where the myth of the machines was introduced, all opposit respect to the previous period in the 19th century considered static under this aspect. Born in literature from Marinetti, it influenced all that came later, in all the forms of art, but also about the technology, where the man tried to obtain something never experienced before. A sort of inducted modernity the design could appear normal in a paint of Botero, but he was born just in that year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Very nice. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bermuda425 Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 Many thanks guys for all your friendly and gripping comments! @Maurizio Giorgi Your comments were especially rousing. And I see the similarity here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikee Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Very Nice Set of Shots ! I like the Plane a Lot ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warren Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Ahh. The showded propeller. What an interesting flying machine. Thanks Bermuda. Good laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurizio Giorgi Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Great footage Bermuda! The old posters too are simply fantastics, i have a friend who was allowed to shot some of them, of that period, the beauty is that simply looking at them you can catch some features of the period. It would be one of the collection i would make, like the vinyls, i like a lot the old graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bermuda425 Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 @mikee Thanks mate! Became curious when seeing it on http://www.classicwings.net/ @warren My pleasure. Flying this experimental barrel felt somewhat wobby. @Maurizio Giorgi Even this low recording quality allows to immerse in their engineering spirit. Just like @Voyager said above: On 29.3.2016 at 1:13 PM, Voyager said: I love these guys, having a very advanced vision, sought to put on the plane of reality theirs revolutionary ideas that will prove to be correct years ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurizio Giorgi Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 The interesting is also the tone of the voice who commented the video, transmits optimism and a sort of audacity, tipical of that period. the airplane really seems to fly very well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bermuda425 Posted April 2, 2016 Author Share Posted April 2, 2016 @Maurizio Giorgi Yes that's true. Although I don't understand what he's telling, it seems that the way of talking is also easy to understand. This website http://www.italianways.com/the-caproni-stipa/ shows four full-color photographs of a 3/5-scale replica built in Australia in 2001. Here's one of them: Greetings and thanks for the absorbing conversation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurizio Giorgi Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 That's really a beauty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bermuda425 Posted April 4, 2016 Author Share Posted April 4, 2016 Some last shots and info I found around the web! Lynette Zuccoli and Aerotect Queensland designed a 3/5-scale replica of the Stipa-Caproni, accurate even in terms of paint scheme and markings, powered by an Italian Simonini racing engine. They built it in 1998 and in October 2001 succeeded in making two directional test flights with it with Bryce Wolff at the controls. Each flight covered about 600 meters (660 yards) and reached an altitude of approximately 6 meters (20 feet), with Wolff reporting that the replica was very stable in flight and performed much as the Italian test pilots reported that the original aircraft had 69 years to the month earlier. (Source: http://www.stipa-caproni.com/stipa-caproni-replica/) The replica may never have flown again, and apparently now is on static display in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurizio Giorgi Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Great pics Bermuda! It's a model that really catches the attention, in particular i noticed that the landing gears looks like a bit to the Piaggio Lambretta lines, the double colours beige/cyan too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bermuda425 Posted April 4, 2016 Author Share Posted April 4, 2016 @Maurizio Giorgi What you notice is incredible. Found this photo and the similarity you remarked is quite stunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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