Caproni Ca.60

That was featured in one of the dream sequences in the Studio Ghibli film The Wind Rises. Not coincidentally, Studio Ghibli got their name from a different Caproni plane: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.309

One of these beauties would make a great alternate universe location for those string music interludes from the Aubrey-Maturin series.

I mean, look at those windows, it's like somebody clone-stamped the stern gallery of a tall ship all the way around.

> The pilot was Federico Semprini, a former military flight instructor who was known for having once looped a Caproni Ca.3 heavy bomber.

(Looks at Ca.3 photo)

Holy smokes

The interwar period really was the cambrian explosion of aviation, with the most original, innovative, grandiose, dumbfounded, innovative, brilliant, designs flourishing everywhere from Moscow to Tokyo.

The cathedral of drag.

I can't imagine the kind of administrative nightmare it would be to try and be allowed by the local thugs in power to do something so ambitious in 21st century Italy.