Colonel Banderas Remembers
byThe following is the transcription of an interview with Col. Raúl Banderas, Commander of the Escuadrón de Combate 2112 (2112 Combat Squadron) of the…
Articles
Those Mexican Bellancas
byNot many people know that Mexico, under the leadership of President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, sided with the Spanish Republican government during that country’s…
Fruit Flyers: Brief History of the Compañía Aérea Hondureña
byOne of the earliest companies to fly passenger service in Honduras and perhaps Central America was the little known “Compañía Aérea Hondureña.” The reasons…
Guatemala Takes the Sky Road
byThis short article about the Guatemalan airline Aviateca, was published on the “Bulletin of the Pan American Union” of July 1947. Besides a couple…
Reviews
EMB-314 Super Tucano – Brazil’s Turboprop Success Story Continues
byOnce again, João Paulo Zeitoun Moralez, an excellent Brazilian journalist and good friend, presents us with another superb research work, this time about the…
Grumman S-2 no Brasil
byThis book’s title is a bit misleading, and not in a bad way. Even though it documents the history of the beautifully ugly Grumman S-2…
EMB-312 Tucano – Brazil’s Turboprop Success Story
byThe first time I had the chance to see the Embraer EMB-312 Tucano in action was during an impressive aerobatic display that the Brazilian…
Columns
El desastre dentro del desastre
byEl jueves 1 de junio de 2017, a eso de las 12:25 del mediodía, una aeronave Piper PA-28-140, con matrícula TG-GYV (C/N 28-22685), desapareció…
La Historia del «TG-CUS-C»
byLa foto que acompaña ésta entrada nos la comparte el amigo y piloto aviador Luis Carlos Samayoa, y forma parte de la colección de…
El Extraño Incidente del HK-919P
byDurante la noche del Domingo 16 de Mayo de 1999 un bimotor Cessna 310, volado por narcotraficantes, tuvo que realizar un aterrizaje de ‘emergencia’…