Argentine Super Etendards flex muscles on their march to active duty?
The appearance of Australis' Serie Aeronaval #40 and a recent minor scandal originating in Navy Arsenal Comandante Espora (ARCE) provided us with a sterling opportunity...
A Chilean approach to air war over the Beagle Channel
Largely unnoticed by mass media and most specialist outlets, Chile's Air Force (Fuerza Aérea de Chile, or FACH) recently released the first edition of its...
“SUE & SEM”: Jorge Núñez Padín revisits four decades of Super Etendard in Argentine Navy service
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.
From La Matanza to Ohio (5/5): At the USAF Museum
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.
From La Matanza to Ohio (4/5): Its transfer to the United States
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.
From La Matanza to Ohio (3/5): Its service in Argentine Naval Aviation
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.
From La Matanza to Ohio (2/5): The Washington-Fairbanks flight
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.
From La Matanza to Ohio (1/5): The story of the last surviving B-10 Martin in the World.
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.
From the Pampas to the Aegean: The Dash 8 that served in Southern Winds and Olympic Air
A group of Dash 8 aircraft that arrived in Argentina in the late 1990s for Southern Wings continued their operational life in Greece flying for Olympic. In 2021, some of them are still braving the Aegean winds.
Airplanes & Coffee: A necessary monthly meeting in Texas
Although negative and frustrating ideas generally come to mind when talking about COVID-19 and it’s impacts to our lives, the great initiative carried out by enthusiastic pilots in times of this global pandemic allows us to see how creative we can be even in moments of frustration and lockdown.