Caproni Ca.12

The Caproni Ca.12 was a two-seater, single-engine monoplane built by Caproni in the early 1910s: a high-wing machine with a wooden structure and canvas covering, wing warping for roll control and metal tie rods to a structure above the fuselage. It differed from its immediate predecessors in having two tandem cockpits, and from the Ca.11 in its much larger wing span and its Anzani 6A3 six-cylinder double-star engine of 60 hp, though other examples had 50 or 70 hp. In March 1912 pilot Enrico Cobioni beat the world speed record for 250 and 300 km and for three hours, averaging about 106.5 km/h. In April 1912 a Ca.12 flew 449 km from Vizzola to Adria, then the longest non-stop flight in Italy, and took the first paying passenger in Italy; in June it set an Italian duration record with a passenger.