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…
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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…
Bay of Pigs – The Men and Aircraft of the Cuban Revolutionary Air Force
byBy the middle of 1960, the novelty of Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution was wearing thin and many of those who had first zealously supported…
Bolivian Air Force operations during the Ñancahuazú Counter-Insurgency Campaign – 1967
byUp to this date, we have five decades worth of material written about the nine-month guerrilla campaign led by Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Bolivia….
Waco Warplanes of Latin America
byThe Waco company was founded in 1920 as the Weaver Aircraft Company in Lorain, Ohio. The company always sold its products under the Waco…
Those Mysterious Nicaraguan Mustangs
byIn 1985, Aerofax had the courage to publish a small monograph co-authored with John Dienst, entitled North American F-51 Mustangs in Latin American Air…
Through Blood and Fire at Darwin
byIn early 1982, Lt. Roberto Címbaro was on his third year of assignment to the III Brigada Aérea (3rd. Air Brigade) of the Argentine…
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…
The I.Ae.30 Ñamcú in Bolivia
byHistory is not a set of isolated facts. In contrast, historical events happen like a chain effect that join many successes and failures. Aeronautical history…
The Sukhoi Su-22 in peruvian service
byBy late June, 1977, inhabitants of the fishing town of Talara began to see some strange, sand-colored aircraft, with a short nose, swept wings and…