Curtiss Falcon in Brazil
byIn 1932, South America was the stage for two conflicts with effective use of aviation as a military weapon: the Gran Chaco War, involving…
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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…
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…
Curtiss P-40 no Brasil
byExcellent aero-historians Leandro Casella and Rudnei Dias da Cunha, have authored what can be considered -hands down- the definitive book about the Curtiss P-40…
The Saga of the Paraguayan and Brazilian Privateers
byTowards the end of the 1950s, a strange four-engined aircraft landed at the Aeropuerto Internacional de Asunción. It was a North American bomber from…