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Caproni_CC-1
Caproni CC-1
Italian jet fighter Caproni Campini No. 1 took off 28th August 1940. Italian propaganda claimed that it was the first successful flight of jet aircraft. Actually the first jet flight was launched a year earlier, than the German plane, Heinkel He 178.
Campini Caproni No. 1 does not actually have a turbojet engine. In the propulsion of aircraft (the author Secondo Kampini) used piston engine Built Fraschini l. 121/40 RC. HP 900 MW, which resulted in movement of a compressor that provides air pressure in the combustion chamber where the mixing of compressed air with fuel its subsequent ignition, combustion and expiration via jet nozzle.
Italian jet fighter Caproni Campini No. 1 took off 28th August 1940. Italian propaganda claimed that it was the first successful flight of jet aircraft. Actually the first jet flight was launched a year earlier, than the German plane, Heinkel He 178.
Campini Caproni No. 1 does not actually have a turbojet engine. In the propulsion of aircraft (the author Secondo Kampini) used piston engine Built Fraschini l. 121/40 RC. HP 900 MW, which resulted in movement of a compressor that provides air pressure in the combustion chamber where the mixing of compressed air with fuel its subsequent ignition, combustion and expiration via jet nozzle.