Role Fighter/Interceptor
Manufacturer Fábrica Militar de Aviones
Designer Instituto Aerotécnico
N. Morchio H. Ricciardi Kurt Tank
First flight 27 June 1950 Retired 1960
Primary user Argentine Air Force
Number built 4
Developed from Focke-Wulf Ta 183
In the late 1940s, Argentina benefited from the recruitment of prominent German aerospace scientists and engineers, fleeing Europe following the defeat of the Nazis and seeking sanctuary in Latin America. The first group of these refugees had also included French designer Émile Dewoitine, punished as a collaborator in his homeland, who headed the IAe 27 Pulqui I experimental fighter program with Argentine engineers Juan Ignacio San Martín, Enrique Cardeilhac, Norberto L. Morchio, Humberto Ricciardi, sixteen draftsmen and forty workers. The Pulqui I was the first jet aircraft designed and built in Latin America. The prototype made its first flight from the Escuela Militar de Paratroopers (Córdoba) on August 9, 1947, piloted by First Lieutenant Edmundo Osvaldo Weiss
After his appointment as project director for a new indigenous fighter program, Tank adapted the basic Ta 183 airframe for the Nene II engine, resulting in a new design that bore only a passing resemblance to its forebear. The Nene was larger, heavier and more powerful than the Heinkel HeS 011 turbojet that had been planned for use in the Ta 183, and therefore required a new, redesigned fuselage with a larger cross-section primarily due to the Nene's centrifugal compressor rather than the HeS 011's axial compressor design.Ceiling
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The UH-60 entered service with the U.S. Army's 101st Combat Aviation Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division in June 1979.[92] The U.S. military first used the UH-60 in combat during the invasion of Grenada in 1983.
The Fábrica Militar de Aviones of Córdoba was the first aircraft factory in Latin America, founded on October 10, 1927 by engineer Francisco de Arteaga
The Fábrica Militar de Aviones of Córdoba was the first aircraft factory in Latin America, founded on October 10, 1927 by engineer Francisco de Arteaga