[HN Gopher] Caproni Ca.60
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Caproni Ca.60
Author : apollinaire
Score : 36 points
Date : 2023-05-13 04:18 UTC (18 hours ago)
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| shakow wrote:
| The interwar period really was the cambrian explosion of
| aviation, with the most original, innovative, grandiose,
| dumbfounded, innovative, brilliant, designs flourishing
| everywhere from Moscow to Tokyo.
| clippy99 wrote:
| The cathedral of drag.
| themodelplumber wrote:
| One of these beauties would make a great alternate universe
| location for those string music interludes from the Aubrey-
| Maturin series.
|
| I mean, look at those windows, it's like somebody clone-stamped
| the stern gallery of a tall ship all the way around.
|
| > The pilot was Federico Semprini, a former military flight
| instructor who was known for having once looped a Caproni Ca.3
| heavy bomber.
|
| (Looks at Ca.3 photo)
|
| Holy smokes
| HideousKojima wrote:
| That was featured in one of the dream sequences in the Studio
| Ghibli film _The Wind Rises_. Not coincidentally, Studio Ghibli
| got their name from a different Caproni plane:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.309
| kubanczyk wrote:
| The specs in the article are _really_ underwhelming. So, what
| 's the story here?
| ur-whale wrote:
| I can't imagine the kind of administrative nightmare it would be
| to try and be allowed by the local thugs in power to do something
| so ambitious in 21st century Italy.
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