The big problem with this prototype was logistics, they had to change the design 3 times because they didn't give them the right engines, this model had an engine with peek performance at 3km wich was old and retrofitted thus delaying development and giving it poor performance, the papers had a completely different engine in mind when they had it drawn for the first time, we wasted an opportunity.

It's a motor-jet, real first turbo-jet is german.

The combination of a conventional engine with the jet engine - was kinda repeated by the Americans with some of there hybrid prop-jet fighters after WW2. So in some ways - the Italians & Americans traveled down a similar path. Who knows what the Italians might have developed with more funds.

This was *not* a turbojet engine. It was a design concept the British rejected out of hand not wasting time going down that route. This engine played no role in the development of the turojet engine.

NOT a JET (gas turbine)

Very interesting

Yes I know that plane and the museum. It was so good I went twice. It is a day out from Rome with train ride then taxi ride however, when you get there it is quiet, well organised and no screaming brats. It also has the Macchi-Castoldi MC-72 operated by Warrant Officier Francesco Agello who set the (to date unbeaten) fastest speed ever attained by a piston-engine seaplane: 711.462 kmh (442.176 mph) in 1934. I am a qualified pilot Give me that plane, it is so beutiful

Let us be quite clear: it was what was (and is still) termed a 'motorjet', which is the term correctly used here. It was obviously not a gas turbine and was extremely inefficient in terms of fuel consumption. It was effectively a ducted fan, driven by a piston engine, with a crude afterburner arrangement in the exhaust duct. Modern reheat/afterburner systems are equally inefficient but are a lightweight means of increasing thrust by 50percent or so. However, to achieve that thust increase, the fuel consumption can be doubled (at least). The reported top speed of the Caproni-Campini N.1 (aka C.C.2) in 1940 was around 230miles/hr. Compare this with the Gloster E.28/39, which achieved around 370miles/hr during it early flights in 1941, with its Whittle/Power Jets W.1 engine derated to 860lb thrust.

A very nice, succinct and informative video. You have presented the information in a comfortable "not-in- your-face" fashion without bias or attempting to persuade the viewers thinking in any direction. When I am next in Italy I will go up to lake Bracciano to see this museum.

Wait.... Prototype? So this wasn't even a jet fighter! If we are talking about prototype planes, the Heinkel He 178 flew in 1939.... Pause video, comment, leave.

A piston-engine was used to drive the compessor as the Italians had not solved the problem of producing a turbine able to resist the high temperatures. Ordinary steel becomes soft - one of the alloys to do the job is NIMONIC.

Their main drawback. They were designed mainly to fly backwards - or not fly at all.

Italian roads were ambidextrous...😊

The only reason one may call it a jet is the absence of a propeller, which precludes it from being called a prop driven plane.

@lamiaitaly2549 >>> Interesting video...👍

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 It was the only plane that could fly in reverse!

The same principle for the engine, as implemented in this Italian airplane, was used by the Romanian inventor Henri Coandă in his airplane designed in 1910.

Sadly it only flew backwards, like their tanks.

A waste of time and money, pilot went overheated from the compressed air flow and the power gain with fuel injection was minimum.

Henry Coanda built something similar decades before. Search for Coanda Turbine.

Impeller, not Jet.

Some Italian biplane fighters the Fiat CR 42 biplane took part on the battle of Britain for propaganda purposes . Although biplane design and looking out of date . British Hurricane fighter pilots reported they were impossible to shot down . Due to the superior aerobatic ability shown by the Italian pilots . And as far as I can find there was only one lose and that was due to engine failure .

The engine was always about to explode and top speed was 200 mph.

I can’t help wondering if they had used the same airframe with either the Junkers Jumo 004 or BMW 003 jet engine, how it would have performed?

Not a fighter though.

An example of the terminology of that era . A " jet " was not only an airplane with a turbine engine . It included rocket propelled aircraft and planes like this one from Italy . The Fieseler Fi-103 R was propelled by an Argus pulse jet , the same as the buzz bomb. It would have been called a jet if encountered in combat .

🤣🤣🤣. Shame it couldn't help them with their victory too! The first jet was the British whittle jet!

Yeah, but no.

What a sexy-looking bird. Straight out of a Blake & Mortimer pages!

No.

Don't know how effective they were, but alot of Italian fighter planes were cool looking. Stylish even. Like Italian sports cars.

Turkey just bought Piaggio...

The "first" jets (subjective) were already worked on in 1930s by Britain, for example. But did not receive the crazy funding and manpower needed until during WWII. Many arrived at similar conclusions in later decades, but all due to existing work, spied upon and then researched further. Some with a slave labour force. Some with more access to precious metals.

Always loved the Campimi-Caproni N.1. I have a model kit of one somewhere. An odd 1/50th scale, I think. As a fantasy build, I might add 20mm cannon at the wing roots and rocket racks outboard of the wheel wells. With a North Africa <<Pizza Crust>> camo scheme, and white Mediterranean Theater fuselage meter band. It would annoy the historical purist rivet counters.

The video improved significantly when I turned off the sound.

Did it fly backwards

"the Camproni Campini [sic]" -- "the Campini Camproni"

2:07 "It is hardly surprising that Mussolini insisted that Campini's plane flew [sic] over central Rome ..." -- "fly".

Italy invented the afterburner but forgot the jet engine. Poor old Italy does not have the best of reputations when it come to the military of WW2 but the Royal Navy viewed the Italian navy as more of a threat than the German navy and it had better armour than the Japanese navy. Their biggest problem was quality control on the ammunition propellent charges which meant shells from the same Italian salvo could be both 100 yards short and 100 yards long and all miss the RN warship entirely.

Say what you like about my fellow Italians, we had and have style.

Some people in the automotive industry think of the jet engine as being a logical extension of turbocharger or supercharger technology. The blowers in turbocharged and supercharged engines simply evolved and grew to the point where they no longer needed the reciprocating piston parts. If so, this aircraft would seem to sit at a half-way point in this development path. A very interesting video, thank you.

That was not a jet.

I would never trust them. They changed sides whenever things got tough.

It was powered by a piston engine driving a three stage ducted fan with an afterburner.

Wikipedia: Caproni Campini N.1 was briefly regarded as the first successful jet-powered aircraft in history, before news emerged of the German Heinkel He 178's first flight a year earlier.

Nope...it was Italy's first jet...but ww2s second jet fighter.

Thanks! I didn't know about this Italian achievement, all you hear about is the me262 when it comes to early jets, or the museum.

From the front the plane is beautiful. From behind it looks like a failed cloning experiment 😬 Interesting video, grazie mille!

La mia opinione è questa: un totale malinteso e un'azione irragionevole!!!!!! :( quando si pensa alla mafia italiana e ai cartelli della droga, "SOLO" ha portato molta più sfortuna che felicità o soddisfazione. Se qualcuno rubasse solo cibo da un supermercato, per lui sarebbe meglio delle attività mafiose (non che lo farei addirittura consigliare qualsiasi attività criminale). Perché un'auto non può che essere migliore. Una casa o un appartamento possono solo essere migliori, ma se qualcuno ce l'ha in testa deve essere al top della mafia o a capo di un cartello della droga. È solo in una posizione discendente, cioè la tua stessa morte, i tuoi familiari rapiti a scopo di riscatto, l'omicidio di persone, un'eternità di perdite... L'avidità umana è dannosa per se stessa. felice o soddisfatto, nessuno, ci sono state solo perdite e fallimenti. È un problema dell'uomo avere una propria visione. C051

Just like that, a new destination to see near Rome :)