The Ansaldo A.1, nicknamed "Balilla" after the Genoan folk-hero, was Italy's only domestically-designed fighter aircraft of World War I to be produced in Italy. Arriving too late to see any real action, it was however used by both Poland and the Soviet Union in …

L' Ansaldo A.1, successivamente soprannominato Balilla, era un caccia e ricognitore biplano monoposto prodotto dall'azienda italiana Ansaldo negli anni dieci del XX secolo ed utilizzato principalmente dal Corpo Aeronautico Militare, componente aerea del Regio Esercito, durante la prima guerra mondiale.

2018年6月7日 · The Ansaldo A 1 Balilla ("Hunter") was the first aircraft fighter design of Italian origins. In the early part of World War 1 (1914-1918), Italian forces consistently relied upon French-designed combat aircraft, leading the local Italian concern of Ansaldo to design, develop, and produce the "A.1" as a fighting biplane.

Greece acquired 8 Ansaldo A1 which were confiscated after an Italian ship bound to Turkey was stopped and searched by a greek cruiser. Lacking appropriate training and maintenance manuals, they never achieved operational readiness.

In the spring of 1917, during the Great World War, an Ansaldo A-1 Balilla fighter plane was built at the Ansaldo plant in Turin. Some sources incorrectly give the city of Genoa the origin. It must be remembered that the Ansaldo concern operated mainly in the shipbuilding industry and had the largest shipyard in Genoa.

The Ansaldo A.1 of 1917 abandoned the “W-shape” of the Warren truss system from the SVA models for a smaller upper wing and conventional wire-braced struts. More horsepower delivered speed, but maneuverability suffered. Still, the Italian Air Force needed more fighters and put them into limited production.

Designed in 1917 by Ansaldo engineer Giuseppe Brezzi, the Ansaldo A.1 Balilla was the first fighter aircraft developed by the Italians during World War I.

The first Italian-designed fighter, the Ansaldo A1 Balilla (Hunter), did not enter service until 1918, and only a small number of the 108 aircraft built reached the front-line squadrons. The Balilla was a small, single-bay biplane with equal-chord, unstaggered wings and a hexagonal cutout in the upper wing trailing edge, providing good forward ...

The Ansaldo A.1, nicknamed "Balilla" after the Genoan folk-hero was Italy's only domestically-produced fighter aircraft of World War I. Arriving too late to see any real action, it was however used by both Poland and the Soviet Union in the Polish-Soviet War.

2015年4月7日 · L’Ansaldo A.1, successivamente soprannominato Balilla, era un caccia e ricognitore biplano monoposto prodotto dall’azienda italiana Ansaldo negli anni dieci del XX secolo ed utilizzato principalmente dal Corpo Aeronautico Militare, componente aerea del Regio Esercito, durante la prima guerra mondiale. Entrato in produzione nel giugno del ...