wow, just wow. the Caproni Ca.60 experimental flying boat on Lake Maggiore, 1921.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/06/01/absurd-100-passenger-trans-atlantic-airliner-featured-three-sets-triplane-wings-set-giant-fuselage/

For the Caproni 90: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/1929-caproni-ca90-six-engined-inverted.html

one of the more unusual designs that actually worked, the 1933 Voli Stipa Caproni

http://anyskin.tumblr.com/post/134818371362/terta-nandras-whistlingdeath-is-this-a#notes

Il Drago Ruggente, an Isotta Frachini 27 liter, V12, 800hp engine came from a Caproni bomber, frame of a Delage. The plane came to Sweden in December 1940 and was scrapped in 1943.

An oil change is 55 liters of 20/50 zinc rich oil. Imagine how long it takes to empty 55 bottles.... and that is just the one oil change. 8 gallons of gas per 6 miles driven. 0.75 mpg...

After a long interview, so it was time to start. I jump up in the Drakensberg. Starts petrol pump and ask Magnus open air valve, while I start spinning the starter magnet and waiting for a bang when kicks off the engine, but it is not! There was only a small puff of smoke, and that was all. Ungrateful Drake, with all the care it received prior to the start.

We took a quick decision to pour in some extra gasoline directly into the carburetors. It may take a real shot (6th 98 octane with wormwood), in order to get a grumpy old man. Speaker asked what happened and I explained that he is a bit grumpy and need a shot, all older men need to get started. He was not slow to instämma- the Yes Indeed!

Ten minutes later it was the pressure of the air tanks and into the bloodstream at the top! And so we were finally ready to start again. Before we started, so I said to Bo to check that no one is standing behind the Dragon when we kick off. Partly because the smoke, but also for the flames. Magnus opened the air valve and I started the petrol pump and started cranking the starter magnet. 2 seconds later so pulled engine running noise and bong. Damn the smoke from the exhaust pipes. Bosse who went behind the vehicle to warn the audience completely disappeared in the smoke.
Glen Billquist from Sweden

http://photos.purple-cloud.com/p896769598/h20E3EBA#h9309be9  Steve Mundy photography
http://www.vintagesportscar.se/nyheter/resan-till-brooklands-italian-car-day.aspx

the first time they lit off the engine:

A couple of cool designs for aircraft, the tube fuselage

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/yachtclubdesavionsdelaroute/?fref=nf

Caproni

Found on https://www.facebook.com/fiore.angelipigliacampo

the 1929 Caproni Ca.90, a six-engined inverted sesquiplane. In 1929 it was the largest aircraft in the world, it held that record until 1934

A six-engined inverted sesquiplane designed as a heavy bomber, read more about it and see a couple more photos at: http://dieselpunks.blogspot.com/2010/07/italian-giant.html

a better write up at http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2013/08/caproni-90.html

The Caproni Ca.90 of 1929 was a follow-up to the unsuccessful nine winged Caproni 60 flying boat. https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/06/wow-just-wow-caproni-ca60-experimental.html It was designed as a bomber with possible commercial use with an eye to transcontinental flights. Powered by six 1000 hp engines, it flew at 126 mph and set records carrying more than 20,000 lbs to 10,000 feet altitude. This was Caproni's last attempt at a large flying boat and only one was built.

This was featured in the Studio Ghibli film "The Wind Rises" (as always, skip the first minute)

thank you Kim for the reminder that Studio Ghibli did this

The Gianni Caproni Museum, founded in 1929 is one of the world’s largest private aviation museums

The Gianni Caproni Museum, founded in 1929 and now installed in its permanent home near the Trento airport, is one of the world’s largest private aviation museums. It chronicles the history of Italian aeronautics and the family’s aircraft companies, which started in 1909 with Gianni Caproni’s design for the Ca.1 biplane. Umberto Caproni recently added two planes to the display: the Ca.18 monoplane, left, employed before World War 1, and the Ca.100 biplane, first used in 1928. (January 1994 Architectural Digest)

http://www.architecturaldigest.com/homes/spaces/2008/07/planes_slideshow?slide=8#globalNav