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2 unusual facts about Caproni Ca.309


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Every "compagnia" was supported until November 1942 by 3 airplanes, model Caproni Ca.309 and nicknamed "Ghibli".

Each section had four planes for reconnaissance and liaison, the most effective of which was the twin engined Caproni Ca.309 Ghibli.


Bristol Type 138

Between 1929 and 1934, there were a number of altitude records established by rival machines including a Junkers W.34, a Vickers Vespa and a Caproni Ca.113 biplane, as well as the first flight over Everest by a pair of Westland Wallaces in 1933; all these aircraft used Bristol or Bristol-designed engines.

CA5

Caproni Ca.5, an Italian heavy bomber of the World War I and post-war era

Caproni Ca.100

Floatplane ex-I-DISC and MM56237 is in the Museo dell'Aeronautica Gianni Caproni, Trento.

Caproni Ca.111

One improvement was the replacement of the single dorsal gun by a turret fitted with two 7.7 mm (.303 in) Bredas.

Caproni Ca.113

The Ca.113 was also produced in quantity by the subsidiary that Caproni established in Kazanlak, Bulgaria.

These latter records were set by Tito Falconi at the US 1933 National Air Races, who flew inverted from Los Angeles to San Diego and after the race meet, made an inverted flight from St. Louis to Chicago.

Caproni Ca.133

Ca.133s of 65a Squadriglia, from Neghelli, attacked the Allied positions around Moyale on two occasions, each time with three aircraft.

Without any air opposition, and flak almost exclusively based on small-calibre arms, air power was a decisive factor in Italy's final victory, culminating in the capture of Addis Ababa in early 1936.

Around 100 Ca.133s took part in the conflict, and as well as 'normal' bombing and strafing, they were often equipped with mustard gas and Phosgene chemical bombs.

Caproni Ca.165

At Guidonia, the aircraft was tested like the many other fighters present for evaluation.

Caproni Ca.3

The accident occurred at the conclusion of a flight to Campo Formido near Udine to Bratislava (capital of Slovakia).

2 × 6.5 mm or 7.7 mm FIAT-Revelli machine guns

Caproni Ca.313

Belgian Air Force 24 were ordered in 1940, none could be delivered before the Fall of Belgium.

Three 7.7 mm (0.303 in) Breda (or Scotti) machine guns were fitted - one in the left wing, one in a dorsal turret and one in the ventral position.

Caproni Ca.331

Its original Piaggio propellers proved inadequate, but their replacement with Alfa Romeo-built propellers in 1941 resulted in the aircraft having improved performance which, in fact, exceeded expectations.

Caproni Ca.335

On 14 March 1940, the prototype was being demonstrated to the French Armee de l'Air at Orléans when it was damaged in a minor landing accident.

Caproni Ca.4

A Ca.48 airliner crashed at Verona, Italy, on 2 August 1919, during a flight from Venice to Taliedo, Milan, after its wings apparently collapsed in mid-flight at an altitude of 3,000 feet (912 meters).

Charles Brooks House

Charles Brooks House is a historic house at 309 High Street in Medford, Massachusetts.

Charles James Fox Campbell

Campbell purchased Sections 309 and 310 on a fertile plain near the River Torrens in 1842 and built a home he called "Lochend" after the ancestral home of his family in Scotland.

Donnington Bridge

The following June the contract in the sum of £309,903 16s 11d was awarded to The Cementation Company for the construction of the bridges and the new road and for the demolition of the free Ferry link foot bridge.

Enna

In the time of Agathocles we find Enna for a time subject to that tyrant, but when the Agrigentines under Xenodicus began to proclaim the restoration of the other cities of Sicily to freedom, the Ennaeans were the first to join their standard, and opened their gates to Xenodicus, 309 BC.

Eric Tindill

The oldest ever Test rugby player remains Scotland's Mac Henderson, who died on 5 March 2009 aged 101 years and 309 days.

Gardner J. Kingman House

Gardner J. Kingman House is an historic house at 309 Main Street in Brockton, Massachusetts.

Gisela C. Lebzelter

: Canadian Protestantism and the Jewish Plight During the Nazi Era, (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997), ISBN 978-0-88920-288-7, ISBN 978-0-88920-309-9 (pbk.)

Heraclea Minoa

The Agrigentines won it back in 309 BC, but it soon fell under the power of Agathocles.

King Shapur

Shapur II - ninth King of the Sassanid Empire from 309 to 379

Kylene Barker

During her year of service as Miss America, Barker signed a lease on a shop at 309 Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Florida, and opened a dress shop called "D. Kylene" (the "D" stood for Danice).

Mario Pezzi

In those years Americans, Germans, English and French fought for this record, and Italy entered the contest with 14,433 m (47,355 ft) in 1934 from Donates on his Caproni Ca.113 with a Pegaso motor.

No. 117 Squadron RAF

No. 117 reformed as a communications squadron on 30 April 1941 at Khartoum, Sudan and also operated a captured Italian Caproni Ca.133 aircraft that had been impressed into service with the Khartoum Communications Flight in 1940.

Operation Caravan

On the Barce airfield were the 35° Stormo da Bombardamento ("35th Bombing Wing"), less a Squadriglia (squadron/flight), equipped with Cant Z.1007bis three-engined bombers, and 131ª Squadriglia of 66° Gruppo Osservazione Aerea (131st Squadron of the 66th Air Observation Group) equipped with Caproni Ca.311 twin-engined observation aircraft.

Although the LRDG patrols were well camouflaged, and were confident that they had not been noticed amongst the trees, the unit had been spotted by a Caproni Ca.311 which dropped a message to a nearby Cavalry headquarters.

Pennsylvania Route 463

It reaches the community of Montgomeryville, where PA 463 widens into a four-lane divided highway and intersects PA 309 (Bethlehem Pike) and Doylestown Road at the Five Points intersection.

The route intersects PA 309 and U.S. Route 202 (US 202) in Montgomeryville and PA 152 in Prospectville.

Peugeot 309

The 309 was also significant in that it was the first Peugeot car to be assembled in the former Rootes factory in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, which Peugeot had inherited from Chrysler Europe in 1978.

Phantom 309

Johnny Cash's song "Like The 309", posthumously released in 2006's American V: A Hundred Highways, pays tribute to the original.

Schnecksville, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Route 873 begins at PA 309 in Schnecksville and exits the area to the north towards Neffs.

Simca Type 315

The engine was first designed in a 944 cc form, but was reduced and stretched in order to be used in a variety of models and versions, by Simca, the Rootes Group (its partner company in Chrysler Europe), Simca's final incarnation Talbot and its last parent company Peugeot, who used it until 1991 in its midsize model, the 309.

Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 1998

Despite being able to enforce the follow-on, Hampshire instead decided to forfeit their second innings, giving the Sri Lankans a target of 309 runs off the last 89 overs of the final day to win, which they reached following an unbeaten century from Chandika Hathurusingha and 90 from Mahela Jayawardene.

Ten Mile Loop

The freeway would curve east and come to an interchange with PA 309 (former US 309, Fort Washington Expreesway) and PA 152 at Wyncote.

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

In what would be the first public performance of the technique known as Pepper's ghost, John Henry Pepper staged a Christmas Eve production of play in 1862 at the Royal Polytechnic Institution (currently known as the University of Westminster) in 309 Regent Street.

Tincomarus

C. E. A. Cheesman, 'Tincomarus Commi filius', Britannia 29 (1998) pp 309-315

Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Upper Saucon has three north-to-south numbered routes: 309, 145, and 378. In Lanark, 309 comes north from Philadelphia via Quakertown to join Interstate 78 coming east from New York City and cross the mountain to Allentown.

Washington Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Washington Township is served by PA 873, which crosses north-to-south from PA 248 in Lehigh Gap to PA 329 in Neffs and PA 309 in Schnecksville.

Whitton, North Lincolnshire

Roman Coins of Claudius Gothicus (268–270 AD) and Constantine I (the Great) (309–337 AD) have been found in the fields.

Wilkes-Barre Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

I-81 has two interchanges in the township: one at the southwest end with Route 309 and one in the central portion near the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza.

William Biles

That same year (1679), Jasper Danckaerts (who met Biles at that time) charted a map of the Delaware River Valley from Burlington Township to Trenton, New Jersey; the map shows William Biles with 309 acres on the west side of the river.


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