CAPRONI CAMPINI N.1 ITALIAN EXPERIMENTAL JET AIRCRAFT

The Campini-Caproni CC.2 (another designation: N1) was an Italian experimental low-wing, metal-structure jet with a landing gear retracted in flight. The drive was provided by the so-called motorjet system developed by Campini, using an engine Isotta Fraschini L. 121 / RC40 . The flight of the prototype took place in 1940 - the machine never entered mass production. It also did not have permanent weapons. The CC.2 machine was created as a result of cooperation between the Caproni label and a small company created by the inventor Secundo Campini. The purpose of the plane was to test in practice the concept of a motorjet propulsion based on a jet propulsion, but the compressor of which is powered by a classic reciprocating engine. In the period 1940-1941, a dozen or so test flights were made on the two created prototypes. These flights demonstrated the complexity of the entire propulsion system and did not give the CC.2 the required performance. In addition, work on turbojet engines turned out to be much more prospective. For these reasons, work on CC.2 was discontinued in 1942.