Fiat CR.1

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Fiat CR.1
Fiat CR.1
Type: Fighter plane
Design country:

Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy

Manufacturer:

Fiat

First flight:

1923

Commissioning:

1925

Number of pieces:

about 250

The Fiat Cr.1 was an Italian biplane - fighter aircraft of the 1920s and 1930s. Nine machines were exported. It was the first in a series of biplane fighter planes developed by Celestino Rosatelli .

history

The fast and agile CR.1 won the tender for a new Italian fighter aircraft against the SIAI S.52 biplane and went into service from 1924 at the Regia Aeronautica, which had only been founded a year earlier . The aircraft with a one-and-a-half-decker design, with the upper wing unusually having the smaller span , was improved during the test phase, freed from minor control problems and precisely adapted to the requirements. After completing these measures, Fiat Aviazione received its first series order for 109 machines. Another 40 were manufactured under license at OFM (later IMAM-Meridionali ) and 100 at Savoia-Marchetti. After being used by no fewer than eight Italian fighter squadrons, some CR.1s were equipped with a more powerful engine from Isotta Fraschini in the early 1930s to improve performance . The Latvian Navy placed the only export order for nine CR.1s .

Other versions were the differently motorized Fiat CR.2 , Fiat CR.5 and Fiat CR.10 , but none of them got beyond the test phase.

The successor project as a fighter aircraft for the Italian Air Force was the Fiat CR.20 .

Versions

Technical specifications

Parameter Data
crew 1
span 8.95 m
length 6.16 m
height 2.40 m
Wing area 23.00 m²
Preparation mass 839 kg
Max. Takeoff mass 1154 kg
Engine an eight-cylinder V-engine Hispano-Suiza  42 with 224 kW (305 PS)
Top speed 272 km / h
Max. Flight duration two hours, 35 minutes
Rate of climb at 5000 m in 16.5 min
Summit height 7450 m
Armament two rigid, forward-firing, synchronized
7.7 mm Vickers machine guns

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AIR International, February 1979, Fighter A to Z , p. 8