An Argentine Winner.
Argentina had until recently a well established, but limited aviation industry. It has over the years built many successful types and made various adaptions of others from light aircraft to combat jets and civil airliners. In fact in the 1950's it developed probably the best aviation jet fighter of the day and if they had developed it to today, they would of won the Falklands war.
The Pucara is one of those interesting oddities in the aviation world, developed in 1969 for counter-insurgency operations (COIN). This twin-engined Astazou turboprop aircraft looks like a Beech King Air, in its layout. But it can operate from very short rough airfields and is was known for its amazing manoeuvrability, it was used extensively during the Falklands war in 1982.
The FMA IA 58 is armed with one 20mm cannon and four other machine guns, was capable of carrying 1,500Kg bombs of three pylons. Maximum speed is 500Km/h (300Mph) and a range of 3,042 Km (1,925 miles). Size. Span 14.5m, Length 14.5m.
One aircraft was captured by the British RAF and remains in the U.K. as a victory capture. I have filmed this aircraft seen flying over Swansea, S-Wales. U.K.
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Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Design that changed Aviation. Part-One.
The forerunner to the De'Havilland Comet.
The design of anything is very important, that is how a classic is created. Aviation has made bounds and leaps in the last one-hundred and six years, from a bicycle powered glider to the Space Shuttle, from the World War-one bi- and tri-planes to the Lockheed SR-71 and the MIG-25.
Most early aircraft relied on two wings, one located above the other and they all nearly appeared box or cylinder shaped. But in 1934-36 big changes were to occur in the design of civil aviation with the MacRobertson trophy. it asked for a compatible aircraft to the DC-2, which could carry 1000ib of mail, 2500 miles at high speed. A.E Hagg and Major Frank Halford rose to the occasion and developed the De'Havilland DH 91 Albatross.
This designed body was a pre-World War-II body shell that would be used on the first commercial jet liner some eighteen years later.
The design of anything is very important, that is how a classic is created. Aviation has made bounds and leaps in the last one-hundred and six years, from a bicycle powered glider to the Space Shuttle, from the World War-one bi- and tri-planes to the Lockheed SR-71 and the MIG-25.
Most early aircraft relied on two wings, one located above the other and they all nearly appeared box or cylinder shaped. But in 1934-36 big changes were to occur in the design of civil aviation with the MacRobertson trophy. it asked for a compatible aircraft to the DC-2, which could carry 1000ib of mail, 2500 miles at high speed. A.E Hagg and Major Frank Halford rose to the occasion and developed the De'Havilland DH 91 Albatross.
This designed body was a pre-World War-II body shell that would be used on the first commercial jet liner some eighteen years later.
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