Italian Caproni bomb-carrying biplane and triplane 1917
Top: Caproni bomb-carrying biplane, extensively used by the Italian Air Service, owing to there great lifting power they were capable of carrying a big load of bombs, as well as two pilots, a gunner and an observer. Bottom: Caproni bomb-carrying triplane, used for raids over Austria. Each with three motors traveling at eighty miles and hour, aggregating 600 h.p and carrying 1 and half tons of bombs
Picture No
10691466
Media ID
47555597
Size
4272px x 6154px
(4.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Drawn by Geoffrey Watson The Graphic', 20 October 1917, page 477
Date
1917
