HUGE ITALIAN PLANE
BIGGEST IN THE WORLD WILL CARRY 100 MEN Times Cable. LONDON, Monday. The Milan correspondent of “The Times’* says the largest airplane in the world is being completed at the Caproni works there for the Italian Army. The machine weighs 15 tons. It is designed to carry a load of the same weight. The plane is equipped with six coupled engines, each of 1,000 h.p. Its speed is 125 miles an hour and its cruising range, 75 hours. The width of the machine from the tips of the wings is 197 ft. Its height is 47ft, and its length 87ft. It will carry either a load of bombs or 100 men. The construction of the plane occupied 18 months. Every part was built in the factory at Milan and assembled at Vizzola, near Lake Maggiore, where trials will be begun when the worst c| the winter is over.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 563, 16 January 1929, Page 9
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