Talk:Caproni-Pensuti triplane

Missing refs and info

There are several gaps, as there are few citable sources for this aircraft. I've only found the 1920 Flight and the Jane's articles. So it still lacks a ref for he statement that Pensuti was a Caprononi test pilot. It's fairly clear from the record of his flights 1914-18 in other vols of Flight that he was but it would be good to nail it, as it explains the Caproni-Pensuti relationship.

There is no indicaton of how many were built by Caproni. Not many, for sure. One, possibly the only one, is blurrily imaged in Jane's with what looks like an engine with more that 3-cylinders. The 6-cylinder Anzani is a possible bt we need citable sources.

Again, there is registration (I-BADZ) and photo evidence that Breda built one or more. One postcard image is only labelled Breda (nothing on the aircraft) but clearly shows a Pensuti and has an inset with a very recognizable Anzani 6-cylinder engine. The other pic is of I-BADZ and does not show the engine well, but it still shows more than one cylinder in the upper section so is not a 3-cylinder inverted Y job. GoldenYears has this reg as a Breda-Pensuti B.2, probably B for Breda, with C/n 2. So there might well have been two (or more) - the postcard, unmarked aircraft has a tail which is quite unlike that of the Caproni-P, more conventional but still angluar and looking cruder, perhaps a bit earlier, than that of I-BADZ.

I found that there have been articles on this family in WWI Aero, vols 137 7/92 and 190 11/05 but they do not seem to be available. Anyone got thm? They might be citable.TSRL (talk) 20:34, 25 January 2013 (UTC)