SAI 10 Grifone

SAI Ambrosini SAI 10 Grifone is little an Italian two-seater of school drawn by the engineer Camillo Silvia before the beginning of the Second world war.

To train more pilots

With the approach of the war, the Regia Aeronautica wished to be able to have a more significant number of pilots and launched a program aiming to the supply of a two-seater of drive of light and not very expensive beginning. To answer this program SAI 10 , whose prototype accomplished its first flight on July 8th, 1939 controlled by Guiliano Ferrari , was a monoplane two-seater parasol side by side. It was a plane of mixed construction, wood metal tubes welded with cloth-lined coating. The Ministero dell' Aeronautica ordered 50 SAI 10 , order then brought back to 10 specimens which were delivered in 1940.

Variations on a topic

Two motorizations were initially proposed: a CNA DA of 60 ch with cylinders flat with which SAI 10 did not exceed 160 km/h, or a radial engine FIAT A.50 of 83 ch retained for the series. In 1941 was adapted a Bramo SH.14 of 160 ch, always out of star, and an engine in line Alfa Romeo A.110 of 130 ch with which the two-seater was renamed SAI 11. These remotorisations remained without continuation, just like SAI 10 Gabbiano (Gull), seaplane of school assembled on 2 floats.

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