Word: caproni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mountains and for remote control over rebel bands in the interior. There appeared to be no better way to get them than by a swap of her coffee. To Italy she agreed to send $200,000 worth of her $9,000,000 crop; Italy, in return, will ship four Caproni fighting planes worth $160,000 and $40,000 worth of parts. The deal was not motivated by the recent fiasco flight of Italian seaplanes to South America...
Last week another pilot in a bulky, air-tight suit climbed almost ten miles up into the stratosphere. He was Colonel Mario Pezzi, commander of the military altitude school at Montecarlo, Italy. In his Caproni biplane with its 14-cylinder, 700-h.p. Piaggio engine, he encountered temperature as low as 65.2° below zero Fahrenheit, but got back to earth without trouble and with a new world record...
...down from the same Ethiopian village in 1896. Behind them both marched a carefully chosen column of Ras Gugsa's own tribesmen, tall fezzed Askaris from Eritrea, and a regiment of Italian Bersaglieri, cock feathers fluttering from their helmets. A thumping band blared Giovinezza while overhead buzzed 21 Caproni bombers led by Il Duce's ace son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Ras Gugsa, whose tribesmen had led the unopposed Italian advance all the way from Aduwa, 60 miles to the north last week, moved into his palace. By order of white bearded General Emilio de Bono...
Soon after dawn in Asmara, Eritrea, Il Duce's Son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano climbed into his flying clothes and stepped out to start the war personally. Seven huge Caproni bombers, black against the pale morning light, were already lined up; their engines idling. Il Duce's two sons, Bruno and Vittorio, now lieutenants in the air force, saluted, and took their places. Overalled mechanics crouched under each plane, screwing fuses in gleaming rows of high explosive bombs. In his pilot's seat Count Ciano opened the throttle, then waved his hand as a signal...
Good names in Italian aviation are Donati, Caproni and Stella. Renato Donati is a War flyer who has been breaking altitude records for light planes since 1927. Caproni is one of the most important builders of Italian military aircraft. Stella is a type of engine. One day last week at Montecelio Airfield outside Rome smiling young Pilot Donati stuffed himself into a gutta percha flying suit, crammed his feet into oiled boots, strapped an oxygen mask to his face. Then he gunned the Stella engine of his Caproni biplane, shot into the sky, and climbed, climbed, climbed. Stella...