Operational History
Campini turned to the Caproni aircraft factory to help build the prototypes, and two aircraft and a non-flying ground testbed were eventually constructed. The first flight was on 27 August 1940 with test pilot Mario De Bernardi at the controls. De Bernardi would do most of the flying of the N.1
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale recognised this at the time as the first successful flight by a jet aeroplane, until news of the Heinkel He 178 V1 which flew for the first time in August 1939, powered by the HeS 3B. In November 1941 it made its the first official flight between Rome and Milan.
Following World War II, one of the prototypes was shipped to the United Kingdom for study at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough.
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