“Don Torcuato”, Argentina’s first privately-owned international airport, marked its 40th anniversary in August 1987 by hosting a two-day air festival that attracted a most interesting collection of representatives from that decade. Go back in time with us and enjoy a colourful pictorial of this event…
Chile’s University Aviation Club held a two-day flying rides event on 5 and 6 October 2013. Fantastic weather and a dozen aircraft attracted a fair number of flying public to their home base at “Victory of Chacabuco” airfield.
Commemorating the creation of the El Bosque-based Military Aeronautics School and their first military flight in early 1913, Chile’s Air Force celebrated 100 years of military aviation in the first week of March 2013. Summarizing a century of aviation progress in words and facts, the centennial was marked by a formal ceremony held at El Bosque, an open day held at Pudahuel and a host of other social and cultural events elsewhere. The main activities were covered by Gaceta Aeronáutica correspondents on-site and a complete debriefing is presented inside.
Gaceta Aeronáutica correspondents were in place and started gathering information and images four days before the show’s official opening on Tuesday 27 March 2012. Take a look at our “quick daily log” reviewing the most relevant activities recorded day by day, a selection of images captured on-site and our complete table of aircraft participating in the XVII International Air & Space Fair (FIDAE 2012).
The wait is now nearly over! With little over two weeks to go before the show opens on 27 March, the outlook for FIDAE 2012 is taking final shape, although much of its contents will remain under wraps until later in the month. In the third of three instalments on the forthcoming edition of this traditional Chilean air, space, defence & security fair, we disclose our last news round-up summarizing information gathered in the last two months. Then, we’ll start packing-up before heading out to Pudahuel for our initial on-the-spot reports!
Further to our initial report published in early-December 2011, we continue to update our preview to the 17th edition of the International Air & Space Fair (Feria Internacional del Aire y el Espacio, or FIDAE 2012), which opens up on Wednesday 27 March 2012 in the military sector of Pudahuel’s airport in Santiago de Chile.
With four months to go to before the show opens, we though it wise to start constructing a preview of what attendees, visitors and the general public will witness in Pudahuel next year. The 17th edition of the International Air & Space Fair (Feria Internacional del Aire y el Espacio, or FIDAE 2012) opens on Tuesday 27 March 2012 and news are already starting to flow about its envisaged contents.
Chile has just celebrated the 200th anniversary of its first government out of Spanish colonial rule and its armed forces played a key role in “nation-long” ceremonies. While Army and Navy hosted the main “Fiestas Patrias” (patriotic festivities), military (mainly Air Force) flying elements captured a fair share of the show in the capital and elsewhere.
