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Old 10-05-2007, 06:17 PM
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Christopher Boles
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Charley, thank you for taking the time to write about all of this. Your efforts are showing a side of AR that few know about. This is alot larger of an effort than I imagined. Yes, we see the engines in the musuem in Milan, but there are no airplanes on display. The museum dedicated to the automobile and little to the other efforts.
I seem to recall from a brochure of AR from the '70's, a picture showing some workers around a jet engine, explaining that they were working on overhauling.
In looking over the Caproni 603, there is dihedral in the lower wing and what appears to be reverse dihedral in the upper wing. I can only imagine that plane would have been alot of fun to fly.
I was wondering where in Naples that plant might have been? I was at the Sud plant in the late 70's. Could the plant for engines have been on those grounds?
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