Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo - the "Noviplano'.

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Classic-Annual5815@reddit

Do yall think with modern tech and modern materials we could remake it and it would work?

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Foreign_Athlete_7693@reddit

In those days, a common line of thinking among aircraft designers was that more wings were better: hence this plane, and ones like the infamous 'Venetian blind' one and the '200 airfoils' one

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spiritplumber@reddit

They were left over from making bombers in WW1. The plane was deisgned around them

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Viharabiliben@reddit

Hey Tony, we gotta alla these extra wings, whata we do?

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Farfignugen42@reddit

This might have been the actual answer, too.

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DrStalker@reddit

Because a single wing that was nine times longer didn't work out.

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snakesign@reddit

She's built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a bistro.

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One-Internal4240@reddit

1921 . . . woof. That's at least a decade too soon for a transatlantic airliner of that scale. Or of any scale, I guess.

The funny thing is that the wing count and engine count emerged from safety concerns. Irony so thick you could drown in it.

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Flucloxacillin25pc@reddit (OP)

I wouldn't normally post it but it fits in my thread of interwar triplane monsters.

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Flucloxacillin25pc@reddit (OP)

AN even better site for endless numbers of solar panels. Too early, alas.

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spiritplumber@reddit

I'm from Verbania and a lot of bars in Stresa have pictures of this on the wall. Also Ferrarin's hydroplane.

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Flucloxacillin25pc@reddit (OP)

Instead of letting it burn, Caproni should have salvaged it and turned it into a floating bar. These days, those wings could hold a large number of solar panels.

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Abandondero@reddit

It wouldn't take off. On the other hand, it probably contained a very nice cafe.

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Abandondero@reddit

Oh. I've read up it on it now. It took off twice and landed once.

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EmergencySushi@reddit

I can still see a bit with no wings on it. They need to try harder. /s

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Flucloxacillin25pc@reddit (OP)

It seems to be a houseboat with nine wings. It did fly but 'how?' is a harder question to answer

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GnarlyNarwhalNoms@reddit

Apparently, it flew twice (and landed safely once).

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EmergencySushi@reddit

I can’t wait to hear about the other time…

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Abandondero@reddit

There's someone flying a simulation of one in Flyout here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9cN1b5ssig

It flies quite well, providing that you start the simulation with the plane already in the air.

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Cisorhands_@reddit

All these wings and no canard. That's infortunate.

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7stroke@reddit

Perhaps there is a duck nearby on the lake…

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erhue@reddit

ah, so close to actually working. Just one more wing and they would've made it.

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Abandondero@reddit

There's someone flying a simulation of one in Flyout here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9cN1b5ssig

It flies quite well, providing that you start the simulation with the plane already in the air.

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As a kid I had an awesome book called “The World’s Worst Airplanes” and this guy was featured prominently. Come to think of it, plenty of planes featured on this sub first came to my attention in that book…

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TigerIll6480@reddit

I think I have that book.

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DouchecraftCarrier@reddit

I still have mine! Is it the one that has the B-2 at the end and is basically like, "This plane was expensive as fuck and its so new we don't know if its any good yet so we put it in the book to be safe?"

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I_am_BrokenCog@reddit

In Theory one doesn't need Aeronautical Engineering practice.

In Practice one does.

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9999AWC@reddit

Fantastic video by Mustard on the Ca.60

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pariah1984@reddit

Well, I think this one takes the cake for the weirdest plane I’ve ever seen on this sub that was actually built.

They actually built…THAT.

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NassauTropicBird@reddit

Interesting that one motor has a 4-bladed prop and the others have 2-bladed props.

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Dapper_Algae505@reddit

The size and number of blades are usually decided by engine horsepower output. Sometimes ground clearance can be a factor, too.

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NassauTropicBird@reddit

LOL I had to read this a couple times and look at some other pics to understand it because this wasn't aligning with what i see in OP's pics.

The aircraft was powered by eight Liberty L-12 V12 engines built in the United States. Capable of producing 400 hp (294 kW) each, they were the most powerful engines produced during the First World War.^([14])

They were arranged in two groups of four engines each: One group at the foremost wing set, and one at the aftmost wing set. Each group featured a central nacelle, containing two engines in a push-pull configuration, all with four-blade propellers. To either side were single-engine nacelles, with two-blade propellers. In the forward engine group, these were pulling, while in the aft engine group, they were pushing.

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Flucloxacillin25pc@reddit (OP)

I wish the latter was true...