Caproni Ca.9
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| Caproni Ca.9 | |
|---|---|
 Caproni Ca.9 on display in the Museo dell'Aeronautica Gianni Caproni at Trento. | |
| General information | |
| Type | Experimental aircraft |
| Manufacturer | Caproni |
| Status | Retired |
| Number built | 1 |
| History | |
| First flight | 1911 |
The Caproni Ca.9 was a single-engine monoplane designed and built by Caproni in the early 1910s.
The Ca.9 was very similar to the Caproni Ca.8 in being a modern high wing monoplane with a wooden structure and canvas covering, equipped with a wing warping system to control roll and reinforced by metal tie rods connected to the fuselage and to a special structure placed above it; the fuselage was based on a wooden lattice structure, in turn reinforced by metal cables, and was covered in cloth only for the front half; the same wooden structure with a canvas covering characterized the empennage.
The fixed undercarriage, was composed of two wheels with curved skids. The engine, which operated a fixed-pitch, two-bladed wooden propeller, was a Y-shaped three-cylinder Anzani capable of developing a power output of 35 hp (26 kW).[1]
Career
Flown for the first time in the summer of 1911, the Ca.9 served at the flying school annexed to the Caproni workshops in Vizzola Ticino; on 20 January 1912, piloted by Enrico Cobioni, an instructor at the Caproni school, the Ca.9 beat the world speed record for aircraft with less than 40 hp (30 kW).[2]
