Форум Breguet's Aircraft Challenge

With a span of only 4 meters, lenght 3,80 m and a total weight of 230 kg (including Pilot) it was probably the smallest men-carrying aircraft of the wartime. It was designed to do short-range reconnaisance missions in the service of ground-troops.
   The designer and Caproni test pilot Emilio Pensuti was working on his idea from 1914 on. What a pity that he did not saw it fly. But A few of them went into active service as late as 1918.
   Emilio Pensuti died in 1918.
   Two versions were built. The first had a three-cylinder Anzani engine (of 35 hp?). The second a more powerful six-cylinder engine (of 80 hp?).
   Following the designations, they were built/constructed at Gianni's company - Caproni-Pensuti. And the Societa Italiana Ernesto Breda per Costruzioni Meccaniche (Breda Corporation, mainly involved in railway stock constructions), Milano built the Breda-Pensuti, probably the post-war version with 80 hp engine.
   (Breda started the aircraft business in 1918 when they got an order of 600 Caproni Ca.5 bombers. After the war there were own developements too. I?m not sure when they built the Pensuti, but at least until 1923 the 'Triplanino - an aircraft for the people' was offered.