Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-09-06

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and Caproni again packed up his be-
longings, again received the parental
| blessing and crossed the Austro-Italian
frontier. He went to Milan, Italy, and
applied to the military authorities
there for permission to erect hangar
| and experimental laboratories on the
cavalry exercise field near Somma
Lombardo.
| Has Designed Nineteen Good Types.
| Here at last he was given the oppOr-
tunity to build and test his first air
| plane, and it is to the credit of Cap
rOni that this first machine was rolled
from the hangar and flew on its first
/ trial. Others were turned out and still
Others and to date nineteen types have
been designed and built by this man,
and in each instance have flown as
soon as finished.
The worth of these Caproni ma
chimes is proved by their adoption as
standard bombing planes by the French
government, the letting of contracts
to the Capronis by the United States
government and the purchase of sew
eral of the big triplanes by the British
government.
| Since the outbreak of the world war
| CaprOni airplanes have taken all of the
aviation records in Italy and have
smashed many of the international fig
ures. The inventor has not confined his
activities to any one type, but has di-
verSified his output. 1t is no uncOm-
mon sight on a Caproni field to see a
gossamer winged monoplane roll out
of hangar door and under the lower
plane of a giant Caproni triplane
! which has carried more than fifty men
as passengers in a long nonstop flight.
At the same time the honor of the
| first tank airplane must go to CaprOni.
| Some weeks ago news dispatches from
| the western front announced the use
of the first aerial tank by Germany.
| The Caproni tank airplane had flown
long before that announcement.
The biggest of the Caproni machines
/ recently completed in Italy carried
more than fifty men. 1t SO far eclipses
any other effort along similar lines that
approximate dimensions are of more
than passing interest.
Carries Seven Guns.
| This leviathan of the air has an ap-
proximate wing spread of 155 feet
| from tip to tip. is about 65 feet long
and 33 feet high. is armed with seven
guns and develops 2,1O0 horse power
with three motors
This machine. of course. can carry
an enormous freight of high explosives
and drop them behind the enemy lines.
and Italv would build many of them if
she could. At present only one of
] these battle cruisers of the air has
been constructed. Italy cannot spare
ton of others. But Italy is depending
on the United States for that raw ma
terial, and believes that she will get
It,
Caproni is no self-advertiser In this
he resembles his countrymen. When
something has had to be done in a
military way italian military chiefs
have done it without talking. When
it was necessary for new and vital
| things TO be done in the air over the
Italian front Caproni has done them.
The words of a young Italian officer
when asked why it was that Italy was
not letting the world know what she
was doing sum the situation up well.
Italy does not want TO talk" he
said "She wants to fight and to do"
And if the past performance of Gil
ami Caproni means anything. the
statement by his representative in this
country that the continent to continent
flight will be made may be accepted
at face value.