{"id":9828,"date":"2024-04-04T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/?p=9828"},"modified":"2024-04-02T23:30:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T22:30:26","slug":"fida1984-when-fidae-started-feeling-like-the-latin-american-le-bourget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/fida1984-when-fidae-started-feeling-like-the-latin-american-le-bourget\/","title":{"rendered":"FIDA’84<\/b>: When FIDAE first felt like “the Latin American Salon de Le Bourget<\/i>“"},"content":{"rendered":"

The idea of visiting Chile’s Feria Internacional del Aire<\/strong><\/em> (International Air Fair, FIDA) was in my mind from the very first edition, when I was a newly recruited Argentine Air Force cadet and wasn’t in a position to join the service’s delegation to the event held in 1980.<\/p>\n

Time and money limitations marred my project to visit it until 1984, when I ended-up taking a week-long leave from job and college to cover the fair’s third edition for our predecessor publication, Aviaci\u00f3n Latinoamericana<\/strong><\/em> (Latin American Aviation, ALA), alongside Jorge N\u00fa\u00f1ez Pad\u00edn<\/strong> (present CEO and chief editor at Australis) and Jorge Figari<\/strong> (RIP).<\/p>\n

In addition to being our first experience abroad Argentina, the show took place in a spicy geopolitical scenario: Argentina had just restored the rule of democracy after seven years under military government and the painful 1982 defeat in Malvinas, Chile remained under Augusto Pinochet’s iron-clad dictatorship and both nations had outstanding issues to solve after the 1978 Beagle Channel crisis.<\/p>\n

\"Fair <\/a>
FIDA’84’s logo proposed a graphical evolution from a stylised condor into an F-14 Tomcat variable geometry fighter so distinctive of the early 1980s (source: FIDAE). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Aviocar\" <\/a>
Chilean Navy C-212 Aviocar 145 on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pucar\u00e1\" <\/a>
Wearing Malvinas War cammo, Argentine Air Force IA-58A Pucar\u00e1 A-561 was essentially employed for flying displays (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"Mirage\" <\/a>
Chilean Air Force Mirage 50C 512 in the static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pill\u00e1n\" <\/a>
T-35 Pill\u00e1n prototype YBT on a high-visibility display in front of ENAER’s production line hangar, dubbing as pavillion F (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Halc\u00f3n <\/a>
A quintet of Chilean Air Force T-36 Halc\u00f3n jet trainers resting on the tarmac across ENAER’s hangar (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
\n

At the time of our visit, Chile was reeling back from the 1982 economic crisis (which caused a 14% reduction in gross domestic growth and a 27% increase in unemployment) and dealing with all the nuisances of life under military rule: Curfew was in place as of 10pm every night, streetbound military and police controls were ordinary matters and insurgency attacks were common place.<\/p>\n

An excursion behind “the Andes wall”?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In such an volatile environment, we were a little bit dissappointed with the treatment we got from local authorities and representatives: Rather than Soviet-style surveillance and restrictions reminiscing of an excursion behind the Berlin wall, Chilean Ministry of Defense officials, FIDAE media executives, Mr. Ugarte and Mr. Sep\u00falveda, and Fuerza A\u00e9rea de Chile<\/strong> <\/em>(Chilean Air Force, FACH) officials at large were quite cooperative and laisses-fair<\/em> with all our press requirements… and even got both Jorges on board Twin Otter and Huey media flights!<\/p>\n

Other than a few tense minutes while picturing an Armada de Chile<\/strong><\/em> (Chilean Navy, ACH) Embraer Bandeirulha, when ground crews got a bit ticklish while both Jorges shot each an every antennae on their aircraft, we were free to take as many pictures as we could afford (remember we were in the 35mm film era!) on the flight line, the static exhibition and even inside Empresa Nacional de Aeron\u00e1utica’s<\/strong><\/em> (National Aeronautics Enterprise, ENAER) production lines.<\/p>\n

\"Halc\u00f3n\" <\/a>
Chilean Air Force T-36 Halc\u00f3n 403 on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Halc\u00f3n\" <\/a>
Chilean Air Force T-36 Halc\u00f3n 404 on the flightline (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Halc\u00f3n\" <\/a>
Chilean Air Force T-36 Halc\u00f3n 401 on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Halc\u00f3n\" <\/a>
Chilean Air Force A-36 Halc\u00f3n 413 on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pill\u00e1n <\/a>
Official stamp celebrated FIDA’84 and T-35 Pill\u00e1n as the “first aircraft built in Chile”(photo via: Hematemo). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pill\u00e1n\" <\/a>
Prototype T-35A Pill\u00e1n CC-EFP, still wearing Le Bourget 1983 exhibition number 56, on the flight line (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Halc\u00f3n\" <\/a>
Chilean Air Force T-36 Halc\u00f3n 407 on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Halc\u00f3n\" <\/a>
Unidentified T\/A-36 Halc\u00f3n, still on green primer finnish, on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pill\u00e1n\" <\/a>
Pre-production prototype T-35A Pill\u00e1n 104 on the flight line (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
\n

Once checking out the access points, we would enter El Bosque air base’s large tarmac, where an amazing gathering of over 90 aircraft<\/span><\/a>, most of them Chilean military which we had previously seen only in the pages of international publications.<\/p>\n

Highlights at the static exhibition included all of FACH’s T-36 Halc\u00f3n<\/strong> jet trainers (the local variant of the Spanish C-101BB Aviojet), the first A-36 Halc\u00f3n<\/strong> (Chilean equivalent to the C-101CC, flown daily), several A-37B Dragonfly<\/strong> in an innovative all-black low visibility livery and two Beech 99s<\/strong> converted into misterious maritime surveillance and electronic warfare plattforms; as well as several established or newcoming fighter types: Mirage 50FC<\/strong>, F-5E Tiger II<\/strong> and Hawker Hunter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Visiting parties<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Beyond the show’s host institution, aircraft from other local and foreign defense and security forces were also on display, including distinctive novelties such as Chilean Navy PC-7 Turbo Trainer, EMB-110 Bandeirante, EMB-111 Bandeirulha and C-212 Aviocar wearing the service’s newest colour scheme and shortened serial numbers, Ej\u00e9rcito de Chile<\/strong><\/em> (Chilean Army, ECH) newest Aerospatiale Super Puma and a sole Carabineros de Chile<\/strong><\/em> (Chilean Carbineers, CCH) MBB Bo-105 helicopter.<\/p>\n

\"Lynx\" <\/a>
Brazilian Navy Lynx Mk.21 on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pucar\u00e1\" <\/a>
Fresh out of C\u00f3rdoba’s production line, Argentine Air Force IA-58A Pucar\u00e1 A-591 was shown statically in distinctive anodised aluminum finnish. Notice MQ-1 Chimango drone right beside it (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"B\u00f6lkow\" <\/a>
Chilean Carbineers MBB Bo-105 C-17 and a radar installation on the static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Skyhawk\" <\/a>
Chilean Army Cessna 172 108 near the flight line (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Turbo <\/a>
Chilean Navy Pilatus PC-6 108 on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Super <\/a>
Chilean Army Aerospatiale AS332B1 265 on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Bandeirulha\" <\/a>
Chilean Navy Embraer EMB-111AN 262 on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Super <\/a>
Chilean Army Cessna 337 207 on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Alouette <\/a>
Chilean Navy Aerospatiale SA-319B 65 on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
\n

Foreign aircraft included two Argentine IA-58 Pucar\u00e1<\/strong> attack bomber twins and one exotic AR-25-235 Pawnee Biplaza<\/strong> (a Chincul-developed two-seat of Piper’s PA-25 Pawnee), a For\u00e7a A\u00e9rea Brasileira<\/strong><\/em> (Brazilian Air Force, FAB) numerous delegation comprising six EMB-312A Tucano<\/strong> trainers and their supporting EMB-110 Bandeirante<\/strong><\/em> and a lone Marinha Brasileira<\/strong><\/em> (Brazilian Navy, MB) Westland Sea Lynx<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Also attending, either as visitors or on static display, were three Direcci\u00f3n General de Aviaci\u00f3n Civil<\/strong><\/em> (General Civil Aviation Directorate, DGAC) service aircraft, a few representatives of Chilean general aviation, ENAER prototypes and a large display of Museo Nacional Aeron\u00e1utico y Espacial<\/strong><\/em> (National Air & Space Museum, MNAE) historical artifacts.<\/p>\n

Regrettably, British aircraft were not exhibited because a duo of Fuerza A\u00e9rea Ecuatoriana<\/strong><\/em> (Ecuadorean Air Force, FAE) Jaguar Es<\/strong> and an equal number of Royal Navy Sea Harrier FRS.1<\/strong> failed to arrive for reasons unknown.<\/p>\n

\"Tomahawk\" <\/a>
Club A\u00e9reo Santiago Piper PA-38-112 CC-KXB on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cessna <\/a>
DGAC Chile Cessna 182 CC-EAE near the flight line (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Archer <\/a>
Club A\u00e9reo de Chill\u00e1n Piper PA-28-181 CC-SHF taxiing into El Bosque’s tarmac (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pawnee <\/a>
Chincul AR-25-235 LV-OHT inn the Argentine static display area (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cessna <\/a>
Cessna 172 CC-PKE on static line-up (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Queen <\/a>
DGAC Chile Queen Air CC-EAB on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Crusader\" <\/a>
DGAC Chile Cessna 303 CC-EAC in static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Navajo\" <\/a>
Club A\u00e9reo del Personal de Carabineros Piper PA-31 CC-KKA on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Stationair <\/a>
Cessna 206G CC-PFF on static exhibition (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
\n

Restrained flying display<\/strong><\/h3>\n

My notes indicate that flying displays were abundant yet a little bit lackluster, with all aircraft flying above 50 meters above ground level, apparently following Halcon 405’s write-off at the base on Monday 5 during an air display flight.<\/p>\n

The roster, however, was crowded and varied; including two military aerobatic teams, an Argentine Pucar\u00e1 (crewed by major Ben\u00edtez and captains M\u00fcller and S\u00e1nchez), an ACH Turbo Trainer, the Carabineros Bo-105 and Brazilian Lynx and all of FACH’s jet fighters\/trainers: T\/A-36, A\/T-37, F-5E, Hunter and Mirage 50.<\/p>\n

Jorge Figari’s notes highlight the fact that all FACH combat aircraft executed the same aerobatic routine, allowing attentive observers to compare Halc\u00f3n, Dragonly, Tiger II, Hunter and Mirage maneouvering capabilities.<\/p>\n

\"Huey\" <\/a>
Chilean Air Force Bell UH-1H H-90 flying parachutists (photo: Jorge Figari). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Twin <\/a>
Chilean Air Force de Havilland Canada DHC-6-100 940 taxiing for take-off on a popular flight (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Tweety <\/a>
Chilean Air Force Cessna T-37 J-391 on the flight line (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Bird <\/a>
Chilean Air Force Cessna L-19 322 near the museum round about (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Dragonfly\" <\/a>
Chilean Air Force Cessna A-37B 629 on the flight line (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Petrel <\/a>
Chilean Air Force Beech 99 301 showing special mission equipment in the static line-up (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Learjet\" <\/a>
Chilean Air Force Learjet 35A 352 (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Twin <\/a>
Chilean Air Force de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 933 taxiing for take-off on a popular flight (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Lama\" <\/a>
Chilean Air Force Aerospatiale SA-315B H-16 on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
\n

But the most attractive air displays featured the two attending aerobatic teams: FACH’s Halcones<\/em><\/strong> performing what Jorge N\u00fa\u00f1ez described as “an exciting routine”<\/em> and FAB’s Esquadrilha da Fuma\u00e7a<\/em><\/strong> (Smoke Flight) flying what I defined as the “the best of both acts thanks to the Tucano’s higher performances”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Halcones<\/em> Pitts S-2A were crewed by captains Tomislav Spasojevic Kustec<\/strong> (#1), Johnny Berner Roa<\/strong> (#2), Jos\u00e9 Ili Salgado<\/strong> (#3) and Federico Klock Cruz<\/strong> (#4); and lieutenants Jorge Velasco Vel\u00e1zquez<\/strong> (#5, soloist) and Carlos Rivera<\/strong> (#6, reserve).<\/p>\n

Fuma\u00e7a<\/em> EMB-312A Tucano, in turn, were flown by lieutenant colonel Geraldo Ribeiro Jr.<\/strong> (lead) and captains Antonio Bragan\u00e7a<\/strong> (right wing), Vario Figueiredo Crispin<\/strong> (left wing), Antonio Jos\u00e9 Faria dos Santos<\/strong> (tail), Celso Luis Cardoso<\/strong> (soloist) and Henrique Vergara Canto<\/strong> (reserve).<\/p>\n

\"Halcones <\/a>
Chilean Air Force aerobatic team pilots (left to right): Captains Johnny Berner Roa, Tomislav Spasojevic Kustec, Jos\u00e9 Ili Salgado and Federico Klock Cruz and lieutenant Jorge Velasco Vel\u00e1zquez (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Tucano\" <\/a>
Brazilian Air Force EMB-312A T-27 1311 serving as Fuma\u00e7a’s back-up unit (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pitts\" <\/a>
Halcones Pitts S-2A #1, though #3 shows on the pilot’s back rest (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pitts\" <\/a>
Halcones Pitts S-2A #2, though #5 shows on the pilot’s back rest (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Bandeirante\" <\/a>
Brazilian Air Force EMB-110K1 C-95A 2296 near the Esquadrilha da Fuma\u00e7a line-up (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Tucano\" <\/a>
Brazilian Air Force EMB-312A T-27 1306 in Fuma\u00e7a’s striking red livery (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pitts\" <\/a>
Halcones Pitts S-2A #3, though #2 shows on the pilot’s back rest (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pitts\" <\/a>
Halcones Pitts S-2A #5, though #3 shows on the pilot’s back rest (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Tucano\" <\/a>
Brazilian Air Force EMB-312A T-27 1305 in Fuma\u00e7a’s striking red livery (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
\n

Entering the major leagues<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jorge Figari’s notes are quite documentative and indicate that roofed surface reached 13,271 square meters (5,000 more than in 1982), exhibition stands reached 230 (44 over 1982) and visitors were estimated in 250,000 people, a relevant figure compared to ILA Hannover 1982 (150,000) and Le Bourget 1983 (700,000).<\/p>\n

With the benefit of some hindsight, those figures and our perception of a punctilliously organized and smoothly run airshow give some substance my decission to describre FIDA ’84 as “the Latin American Le Bourget”<\/strong><\/em> from the very start of my ALA Vol.2 No.7 report.<\/p>\n

Also clear to us was the fact that FACH authorities were already drafting expansion plans: Even though actual change would take place only in 1990 (when the final “E” was incorporated at the end of the original acronym), 1984 rumours indicated that a name change to Feria Internacional de la Defensa y el Armamento<\/strong><\/em> (Defense & Weapons International Fair) was being considered.<\/p>\n

\"Kingfisher\" <\/a>
Chilean Air Force Vought OS2U-3 311 in the musem round about (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Show <\/a>
FIDA’84 general organization plan (image via: ALA\/Aviaci\u00f3n Latinoamericana). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Tiger <\/a>
Chilean Air Force F-5E 806 taxiiing to active runway for a fluing display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Blanik\" <\/a>
Chilean Air Force LET L-13 V-04 in the museum round about (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Invader\" <\/a>
Chilean Air Force Douglas A-26 846 in the museum display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Aviocar\" <\/a>
Chilean Army CASA C-212 212 in static exhibition (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Mentor\" <\/a>
Chilean Air Force Beech T-34A 152 on static display (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Hunter\" <\/a>
Hawker Hunter FGA.71 708 on static display. Notice Cardoen cluster bombs in the foreground (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Albatross\" <\/a>
Grumman SHU-16B 570 on the musem round about (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
\n

Forty years later, our 1984 projections and perceptions prove to have been correct: The show changed locations twice to continue growing in surface, exhibitors count, participating aircraft and industry sectors incorporated in the fair’s menu; maintaining an unequalled continuity (at the regional level) which only a global pandemic was able to interrupt in 2020 (see Cuenta regresiva para FIDAE 2020: Abort! Abort! Abort!<\/span><\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

\n

Bibiliography<\/strong>: Aviaci\u00f3n Latinoamericana (Argentina, 1984), Laureau, Patrick: “A view to a show: FIDAE Latin American Stars” (Chile, 1996) and Pavlovcic, Magnusson & Raczynski: “Cat\u00e1logo Completo de Aeronaves Civiles Argentinas Registradas 1938-2016” (Argentina, 2016). Internet sources<\/strong>: FG Media, FIDAE, Rotorsport, Scramble and Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forty years ago, FIDAE lacked the final “E” in its acronym and didn’t cater for many of the market segments that are usually served in the 21st Century. 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