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RC Ansaldo SVA 5 Italian single-seater biplane. Imagine what it was like flying less than 100 years ago, single seat biplane flying for 7 hours to cover a little more than 600 miles...And testing those first aircraft without wind tunnels, simulators and computers, read on. Sgt. Mario Stoppani must have been a brave man, for on March 19, 1917, he test-flew the prototype SVA at Grosseto. Without modern testing and development procedures and simulations, he must have simply started up the engine, taxied down the field, and took off, hoping for the best. The most famous SVA raid took place in August, when eight SVAs flew to Vienna and back, a journey of 625 miles. The raid was the brainchild of Gabriele d'Annunzio, a rather extravagant, self-styled warrior-poet. Originally, d'Annunzio favored three-engine Caproni heavy bombers, but the Italian high command was unwilling to risk the large aircraft on such a Quixotic misson. SVA two-seaters, another possibility, did not have the endurance for a seven hour flight. But the one-seater SVA 5's did have the range and d'Annunzio organized the raid around them. www.acepilots.com Music: 'Lost Souls' by Ensams www.looperman.com
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