In the experimental madness of the 1930s, Italy built an aircraft that looked more like a flying barrel than a real airplane. The Stipa-Caproni was bizarre, slow, and almost cartoonish, yet hidden ...

For all their contributions to the automotive space, the history behind Italy's century-old aircraft industry is overlooked more often than not. If you ask us, that's a real shame. Because some of the ...

The airplane that many called “the flying barrel” is also widely considered the ugliest plane ever built. However, [Dark Skies] in the video you can see below argues that the Stipa-Caproni was the ...

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