Flying into the most dangerous airport in the world…
A renowned aviation expert and world traveler recalls his 2013 flight in Tara Air’s DHC-6 9N-AET, the Twin Otter which tragically crashed last 05/29 with the loss of all 22 on board.
A renowned aviation expert and world traveler recalls his 2013 flight in Tara Air’s DHC-6 9N-AET, the Twin Otter which tragically crashed last 05/29 with the loss of all 22 on board.
In a striking numeric coincidence, Serie Aeronaval 40th edition celebrates 40 years of Dassault Super Etendard operations with the Argentine Navy. We gained access to and advanced Australis’ manuscript and propose an “early bird” preview of Jorge Núñez Padin’s latest monograph.
This section is referred to the Martin´s total restoration process between 1973 and 1976, ending with the installment of the aircraft in the USAF Museum, where it is exhibited until today, painted in the Army Air Corps paint scheme of the 30s – in contradiction of the donation law.
The author explains here the activity done by American authorities to obtain the Technical School´s Martin for its Air Museum, until the Argentine government gave its approval and donated it to the United States in 1970, after which it was transported by plane to be restored.
Here the author explains the Martins´s operational service in the Argentine Naval Aviation (their arrival in Argentina, their incorporation to the Navy and the most remarkable events in which they took part) until they were drawn from service, one of them being delivered to the Arts and Crafts School of Haedo, later renamed Nº1 Technical School.
In this section, the autor refers to the detailed organization and the accomplishment of the historical Washington-Fairbanks (Alaska) Flight of 1934, carried out with a 10 B-10 flight, led by who would later become the leader of the American Military Aviation in World War Two: Henry “Hap” Arnold.
For years, USAF authorities searched for a surviving Martin B-10 to add to its Museum collection, until they found the only surviving plane of its kind in the World in Argentina, where it had been kept as training material in a Technical School in the Greater Buenos Aires, after having been discharged from Naval Aviation stocks. Here the autor tells us the origins and characteristics of this remarkable bomber that in its time represented a great technological advance for Military Aviation.