The Latin American Aviation Historical Society
Last Updated on January 27, 2022 @ 1:14 AM
My previous article for LAAHS concerned Cuba, a subject that became important and interesting to me late in life, after I started traveling to…
Born in 1886, and thus more than 60 years old on the eve of what was arguably the greatest adventure of his life, Juan…
Monday August 23, 2021, saw the 91th Anniversary ceremony of Chile’s Museo Nacional Aeronáutico y del Espacio or MNAE for short (National Aeronautics And…
Under the direction of Juan Pablo Ortega, president of the airline, there is information that in 1959, AVIANCA the main national airline in the…
Through the kindness of Dr. Gary Kuhn and Mr. Tulio Soto, both long-time LAAHS members, I received copies of a few of the papers…
When I was a kid, we are talking ancient history here, late 1950s and 1960s, every single time that I heard any airplane engine…
This book presents the flight experiences of a Cuban pilot, Colonel Henry Pérez Martínez. It was kindly provided to me by my friend and…
Once again, João Paulo Zeitoun Moralez, an excellent Brazilian journalist and good friend, presents us with another superb research work, this time about the…
The vast majority of the historical events documented in this website involve stout, built-for-purpose aircraft that most of us recognize and, even though often…
A first shipment of Waco biplanes reached Brazil in 1932, in the form of the small, open cockpit CSO model. This was just in…
Consider this for a moment: Suppose there had been one -just one- trained, dedicated, disciplined observer, on the ground the day that the very…
Airplanes have been used during formal peacetime in terrorist attacks. Even if the scale was small, some dramatic incident had the potential to be…
