CAP-1 Planalto

CAP-1 Planalto is a two-seater Brazilian single-engined aircraft of school built before the Second world war.

Version of series of IPT-4

CAPE was charged to build the prototype of IPT-4, a two-seater single-engined aircraft of school drawn by Clay Presgrave C Amaral. But it modified the profile of wing chosen by IPT. The performances of the apparatus, renamed CAP-1 Planalto , were some strongly compromised and 11 specimens only, prototype included/understood, were built.

Derivatives

Seeking to cure the problem of stability of CAP-1 , a modified version, CAP-3 with engine De Havilland Gipsy of 130 ch was born, but 8 specimens only were built, which knew a very short career. Has are return of the Massachusetts Institute off Technology, where it had obtained an aeronautical diploma of engineering, Oswaldo Fatigues identified the problem of CAP-1 and undertook to modify the apparatus, that Francisco Pignatari tried to sell with the Ministry Aeronautics like plane of drive advanced under designation CAP-6. He only managed to make adopt by the military authorities a kit of conversion of existing CAP-1 .

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