Fiat B.R.

The Fiat B.R. was a family of Italian light bombers designed by Celestino Rosatelli and developed soon after the First World War from the SIA 9 reconnaissance aircraft, whose structure was strengthened for the role. It was a two-bay biplane with open tandem cockpits for pilot and observer and a tailskid undercarriage. Rosatelli later gave it Warren truss bracing, which became a feature of his designs for the next decade, and the type grew into several variants such as the B.R.1, B.R.2, B.R.3 and B.R.4, as well as the R.22 reconnaissance aircraft. At its peak it equipped fifteen light bomber squadrons of the Regia Aeronautica and was exported to Sweden and Hungary. A modified machine, the R.700, set a world airspeed record of 336 kilometres per hour in 1922.