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Song Parodies -> "Italy Flew the C.C.2"

Original Song Title:

"I Put a Spell on You"

 (MP3)
Original Performer:

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Parody Song Title:

"Italy Flew the C.C.2"

Parody Written by:

Robert D. Arndt Jr.

The Lyrics

In 1931, Italian engineer Secondo Campini submitted a report on the potential of jet propulsion to the Regia Aeronautica, and the following year, demonstrated a jet-powered boat in Venice. In 1934, the Regia Aeronautica granted approval for the development of a jet aircraft to demonstrate the principle. As designed by Campini, the aircraft did not have a jet engine in the sense that we know them today. Rather, a conventional 700 kW (940 hp) Isotta Fraschini L. 121/R.C. 40 piston engine was used to drive a compressor, which forced air into a combustion chamber where it was mixed with fuel and ignited. The exhaust produced by this combustion was to drive the aircraft forward. Campini called this configuration a "thermojet," but the term "motorjet" is in common usage today for this arrangement since thermojet is now used to refer to a particular type of pulsejet (an unrelated form of jet engine). It has also been described as a ducted fan The Italian aircraft designer Luigi Stipa (1900–1992) contended that his Stipa-Caproni experimental aircraft, a ducted-fan design of 1932, was the first aircraft to employ what he called an "intubed propeller" -- essentially the motorjet principle—and that he therefore deserves the credit for the invention of the jet engine. The Caproni-Campini N.1 did employ many of the principles first tested in the Stipa-Caproni aircraft, albeit in a more advanced form. Campini turned to the Caproni aircraft factory to help build the prototypes, and two aircraft and a non-flying ground testbed were eventually constructed. The first flight was on 27 August 1940 with test pilot Mario De Bernardi at the controls. De Bernardi would do most of the flying of the N.1 The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale recognised this at the time as the first successful flight by a jet aeroplane, until news of the Heinkel He 178 V1 which flew for the first time in August 1939, powered by the HeS 3B. In November 1941 it made its the first official flight between Rome and Milan.Following World War II, one of the prototypes was shipped to the United Kingdom for study at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough.That one was destroyed, but the second prototype survived and is on display in a museum in Italy. ~ Wiki
Italy flew the C.C.2
Second in line

Italians were impressed with you
It was tryin’
Rome-Milan flyin’

It ran off a ducted motorjet
Was crusin’ around
233 mph slowly
Cigar-shaped plane drew the crowds

Italy flew the C.C.2
Second in line
After ‘39

They built two
They built two
They built two
Had military designs
R.A. didn’t care
Shrouded in secrecy
Never made it in time

1940
Italy flew the C.C.2
Second in line
(War ended before it was refined)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/34/Caproni_foto.jpg/300px-Caproni_foto.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Campini-Caproni_C.C.2_2009-06-06.jpg/800px-Campini-Caproni_C.C.2_2009-06-06.jpg

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David Copper - September 12, 2011 - Report this comment
When did the British get a jet into the air???
Rob Arndt - September 12, 2011 - Report this comment
The Gloster E.28/39 (aka Pioneer pr G.40) flew in 1941, AFTER the Germans and Italians and BEFORE the US and Japan. Whittle made it to the patent office before von Ohain on the engine, but couldn't get anyone interested in a jet until after the Axis flew them.
Rob Arndt - September 12, 2011 - Report this comment
http://researchers.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/files/2011/07/Gloster_E28-39_first_prototyp_lr.jpg

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