Caproni Ca.103
{{short description|Italian 1920s bomber aircraft}}
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The Caproni Ca.103 was a biplane twin-engine bomber developed by the Italian company Aeronautica Caproni in the late 1920s.
Design
The Ca.103 had a fuselage, with a rectangular section and made of welded tubes, that integrated the two-seater closed cockpit placed at the wing connection edge and intercommunicating with the three positions for machine guns and pointer. On the rear, it ended up with a single drift fletching equipped with horizontal counter-braced sesquiplane planes, connected to each other by a pair of "V-shaped" uprights, and with the lower plane with adjustable incidence in flight. The wing configuration was sesquiplane inverted with neutral scaling, i.e. with a higher wing plane with a significantly shorter opening and positioned directly above the lower one, the latter being the only one with a differential slit aileron . The wings, both characterized by a sensitive positive dihedral angle, were connected to each other by a series of riser pairs in Warren truss configuration. The landing gear had a fixed classic tricycle configuration, with a front element with an interrupted axle and an elastic upright, with uncovered wheels equipped with brakes, integrated at the back by a swiveling support wheel which was also elastically cushioned.{{cite web|url=http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bww1/ca103.html |title=Canponi Ca.103 |publisher=Airwar.ru |access-date=2019-02-03}}
Specifications
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|ref=Aeroplani Caproni dal 1908 al 1935{{cite book |last1=Caproni |first1=Gianni |title=Aeroplani Caproni dal 1908 al 1935 |publisher=Edizioni d'arte Emilio Bestetti |location=Milan |date=1937 |page=298 |language=it}}
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|length m=14.5
|span m=23
|height m=6
|wing area sqm=130
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|empty weight kg=4200
|gross weight kg=6700
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|eng1 number=2
|eng1 name=Fiat A.24
|eng1 type=V-12 water-cooled piston engines
|eng1 hp=750
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|prop name=pusher and tractor propellers
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|ceiling m=6000
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|guns= 3 × {{cvt|7.7|mm|3}} machine guns
|bombs={{cvt|1000|kg}} of bombs
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See also
References
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