Caproni Ca.79

The Caproni Ca.79 was an Italian light bomber produced in the mid-1920s, flown by the Regia Aeronautica with a crew of five. Its wing used two spars joined by joists, with very light trellis ribs of duralumin, steel tube and adjustable steel wire. The steel-tube fuselage carried a front turret for a machine gun and the observer's controls for releasing bombs, a second gun turret under the fuselage that lowered with the weight of the gun and disappeared when not in use, and two pilot seats. Of four engines, two were mounted in tandem above the fuselage and one on each wing, started by compressed air from a compressor under the right pilot's seat. The Isotta Fraschini Asso 500 V-12 engines gave 370 kW each, and it carried 1,000 kg of bombs and three 7.7 mm machine guns.