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Pensuti-2
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Breda-Pensuti B.2
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Role
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Sports
triplane
Type of aircraft
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National origin
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Italy
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Manufacturer
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Caproni
(Societa Per Lo Sviluppo in Italia)
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Designer
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Emilio Pensuti
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First flight
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by 1919
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The
Caproni-Pensuti 2
was a small single-engine sports
triplane
aircraft designed and built in
Italy
just before the end of
World War I
. It had a wingspan of only 4.0 m or a little over 13 ft.
Design and development
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The Pensuti 2 was a very compact, low-powered
triplane
flown in about 1918.
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Its first flight, piloted by Lt. Lodovico Montegani, was delayed by the death of its designer and Caproni test pilot Emilio Pensuti in an unrelated aircraft crash.
[1]
[2]
Designed to do in the air "what bicycle [sic] does for the man on the road",
[1]
it was categorised post-
World War I
as a small sporting aeroplane.
[3]
The single-seat triplane had unswept rectangular wings, each with a full span of only 4 m (13 ft 1 in). These were mounted without
stagger
, each wing braced to the one below by two pairs of vertical, parallel
interplane struts
, one pair out beyond mid-span and the other from the
fuselage
sides. The central wing was attached to the upper fuselage and the other two held well clear of it by the struts. There were
ailerons
on each wing.
[1]
[3]
an alternate version of the Caproni-Pensuti triplane
The Pensuti had a simple rectangular cross-section fuselage, with the open cockpit at the wing
trailing edge
. A three cylinder, inverted Y configuration
Anzani air-cooled engine
of 26 kW (35 hp) in the nose drove a two-blade
propeller
. The triplane had a fixed undercarriage of wide track, with a single wheel at each end of a single axle with its extremities attached to extensions of the outer interplane struts. Its
cruciform tail
had horizontal surfaces mounted on the top of the fuselage; the vertical surface was
trapezoidal
and extended equally above and below the fuselage. A small tailskid was carried on its lower tip.
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[3]
A second aircraft with a redesigned tail,
Anzani 10-cylinder
radial engine and other modifications was built at the Breda factory in Milan as the
Breda-Pensuti B.2
, (regn. I-BADZ).
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It gained the second prize at the Italian low-powered aircraft competition held in the summer of 1920 in
Milan
.
[5]
Specifications
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Data from
Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War One
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General characteristics
- Crew:
one
- Length:
3.80 m (12 ft 6 in)
- Wingspan:
4.0 m (13 ft 1 in) all wings
- Height:
2.40 m (7 ft 10 in)
- Gross weight:
230 kg (507 lb) in flight with pilot
- Powerplant:
1 × Anzani
inverted-Y 3-cylinder air-cooled engine
, 26 kW (35 hp)
- Propellers:
2-bladed
Performance
- Maximum speed:
95 km/h (59 mph, 51 kn)
- Stall speed:
40 km/h (25 mph, 22 kn)
- Rate of climb:
1.1 m/s (220 ft/min)
- Take-of and landing distances:
20 m (65 ft).
References
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Establishments
Taliedo
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HP designations
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Numerical
designation
sequence
2,
3
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Names
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WW1 Military
designations
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Cantieri Aeronautici
Bergamaschi (CAB)
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Caproni
Reggiane
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Caproni-Predappio
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Caproni Peruana
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Caproni Vizzola
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Caproni Trento
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Other groups
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1
No details on project, or designation skipped
2
Sequence retroactively applied to pre-1918 designs
3
200 series reserved for multi-engine types
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