+Monty CZ 209 Posted January 7, 2007 Hello I started new project yesterday and there is not much refference materials for Caproni Ca.3 (36) If anybody has any photo it would be realy helpful. Just now I need to know if game engine allows multiple gunners as SF:P1 :-) Thanx in advance Monty Preview: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gr.Viper 131 Posted January 7, 2007 AWESOME!!! Yep. Game allows multiple gunners - capun's Gotha has two already. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Flamer50 3 Posted January 7, 2007 Hello I started new project yesterday and there is not much refference materials for Caproni Ca.3 (36) If anybody has any photo it would be realy helpful. Just now I need to know if game engine allows multiple gunners as SF:P1 :-) Thanx in advance Monty ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Found these on a couple WWI sites, don't know that they will help very much. "Tuff Bird" to find good pics of. Any way, hope they are of some use to you. Great looking "Beta". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Flamer50 3 Posted January 7, 2007 Hello I started new project yesterday and there is not much refference materials for Caproni Ca.3 (36) If anybody has any photo it would be realy helpful. Just now I need to know if game engine allows multiple gunners as SF:P1 :-) Thanx in advance Monty ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Found these on a couple WWI sites, don't know that they will help very much. "Tuff Bird" to find good pics of. Any way, hope they are of some use to you. Great looking "Beta". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Stiglr Posted January 7, 2007 There's an example of this aircraft at the USAF Museum in Dayton Ohio. Saw it myself not a month and a half ago. http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheet...heet.asp?id=322 Hope that helps for info. If you need more, go to their site and send a detailed question to their "experts". They usually respond with good info, if not leads on where to look next. G'luck, it's looking nice so far! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+TexMurphy 0 Posted January 7, 2007 Monty CZ Hope your not obandoning your Nieuport 11 project... Tex Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Von Hammer 0 Posted January 7, 2007 Me neither. However I do wish you best of luck on your Caproni project, and I am looking forward to fly/shoot it. :) Salute! RVH Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Monty CZ 209 Posted January 8, 2007 Hello and thanx to all, it will be finished soon I hope (then some ini work...) Nieuport 11 is not abandoned, thanx to Column5 it getting nice new flight model :-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gr.Viper 131 Posted January 8, 2007 What are these metal thingies in the middle? Fuel tanks? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+TexMurphy 0 Posted January 8, 2007 Awsome... double awsome!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Monty CZ 209 Posted January 8, 2007 (edited) What are these metal thingies in the middle? Fuel tanks? I suppose so.... with bombs stored right under it with all wood and hot engines around it was realy dangerous Ingame preview added: Edited January 9, 2007 by Monty CZ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Monty CZ 209 Posted January 10, 2007 Ok gunners are working, model is finished, time to teach it to fly Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Fates 63 Posted January 11, 2007 I always like more firepower. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Spectre_USA 7 Posted January 11, 2007 5 left of center, 3 right. Looks like someone needs to hone the PhotoShop skills a bit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Fates 63 Posted January 11, 2007 Them gunner counters are getting worse then rivet counters...lmao. Good find. We'll have to make sure the Right wing carries the FUEL.....lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ODB_Floyd 0 Posted January 11, 2007 (edited) no ,two fell off the end on takeoff Edited January 11, 2007 by ODB_Floyd Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DT59 0 Posted January 11, 2007 But what would a Caproni be doing over Flanders ? Anyhow, we don't even have a map of Flanders at the moment... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Von Hammer 0 Posted January 11, 2007 The British Navy used 4 Caproni bombers. Salute! RvH Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DT59 0 Posted January 11, 2007 Thanks for the info. I didn't know that ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Monty CZ 209 Posted January 11, 2007 Thanks for the info.I didn't know that ! Didi you know? ...The same model remained in production throughout the war, first in its 350 version (with two Fiats and one Isotta Fraschini engine) and then as the Ca 450 hp, with three Isotta Fraschini V.4B 180 hp engines. Several hundreds were built, and it equipped bomber squadrons 1 to 15 (of which 11a Squadriglia operated in Albania, and 12a Squadriglia in Lybia, while 3a, 14a and 15a were sent to France in 1918) and 201a Squadriglia of the Naval Aviation with single examples going to home defence flights. All designations such as Ca.31, Ca.32 etc. are spurious post-war reconstructions: this bomber was exclusively called Ca 450 hp or Ca.3. The first models had a three-men crew, formed by two pilots and an observer-gunner in the nose, but all later Capronis had a fouth crew member, a gunner who operated from a turret rising above the central engine. Its production was scaled down in 1918, but as its successor, the Ca.5 600 hp, proved a failure, it was hurriedly put back in production in the Savigliano plant. The last version was the ca.3 Modificato, with folding wings, that was even reintroduced in production in 1923, some 150 of them being produced for the Regia Aeronautica and serving in bomber units until 1927, 13 years after its initial flight. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gr.Viper 131 Posted January 11, 2007 Were there any reports of spontaneous combustion? Or the top gunner was so scared, he'd kill anyone who tried to shoot at fuel tanks? By the way, I noticed that all planes at the moment have zero damage due to overheat... Has anyone tried to enable overheat? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
