Buenos Aires – Jorge Newbury Aeroparqe

Picture of the bomb bay. As you will see, the internal mechanics are in excellent condition, as is the birds nest on the right hand side 😮

Strange how just metres on the other side of those railings is the ‘Rio De La Plata’, the massive tidal estuary of the River Plate where the Graf Spey was sunk.

I wonder how another Avro product, the Vulcan, would have coped in this environment, reference Blackpool, although clearly not an appropriate exhibit.

Mark

I just happened to be passing through B.A. on Saturday and popped along to see the aircraft in the new hangar space.

With regards the aircraft being outside… I’ll try to post an image to answer that question in a couple of days….. 😀

Some great stories from that part of the world…

One old boy was telling us how it used to be possible to buy time expired radial engines at auction from the airforce, and how the engines were really only ever about half life. By all accounts two things would happen.

1. It was standard practice for the airforce bods to sell fuel to the locals for their cars. In order to account for the lost fuel they used to falsify entries into the logs of the aircraft to account for the missing gas.

2. Pilots on the long cross country part of their training would instead fly to a local airfield where they were able to pick up chits from the two distant civil airfields they were meant to travel to. These chits were not only the proof that they had completed the cross country but it also served as an invoice for the fuel which was of course never purchased. The airfield operator would get paid by the airforce and split the money with the poor underpaid pilot who could sleep under a tree all day making sure he woke up in time to make his arrival back at base.

3. I won’t mention the ex airforce engineer who offered me some “bits” for sale. I was knocked for six when he showed me whole engines but really couldn’t believe my eyes when he swung open the barn doors to show a complete aircraft! Now, hands up, I’ve stolen the odd pen and post-it from work but this guy was in a different league!!!

🙂

Now those are great stories, Taifun !!!!

Cheers for that,
TNZ

The former Aeroparque – the Lincoln condition

Strange how just metres on the other side of those railings is the ‘Rio De La Plata’, the massive tidal estuary of the River Plate where the Graf Spey was sunk.

I wonder how another Avro product, the Vulcan, would have coped in this environment, reference Blackpool, although clearly not an appropriate exhibit.

Mark

Rob,

it looked in a reasonable condition at the time and a previous post also refers to it being ok.

Some great stories from that part of the world…

One old boy was telling us how it used to be possible to buy time expired radial engines at auction from the airforce, and how the engines were really only ever about half life. By all accounts two things would happen.

1. It was standard practice for the airforce bods to sell fuel to the locals for their cars. In order to account for the lost fuel they used to falsify entries into the logs of the aircraft to account for the missing gas.

2. Pilots on the long cross country part of their training would instead fly to a local airfield where they were able to pick up chits from the two distant civil airfields they were meant to travel to. These chits were not only the proof that they had completed the cross country but it also served as an invoice for the fuel which was of course never purchased. The airfield operator would get paid by the airforce and split the money with the poor underpaid pilot who could sleep under a tree all day making sure he woke up in time to make his arrival back at base.

3. I won’t mention the ex airforce engineer who offered me some “bits” for sale. I was knocked for six when he showed me whole engines but really couldn’t believe my eyes when he swung open the barn doors to show a complete aircraft! Now, hands up, I’ve stolen the odd pen and post-it from work but this guy was in a different league!!!

🙂

It is an Argentinian design called IAI Huanquero – same company who designed the Guarami and Pucara

what is the bottom pic looking like a low winged B 25

I think the Pulqui I was designed by Emil Dewoitine, the famed French designer. The Pulqui II was designed by Kurt Tank. I remeber having read somewhere that the design of the Pulqui II was actually based on designresearch done by mr. Tank during WW2

Harm-Jan

Pulqui

Wasn’t the Pulqui designed by Kurt Tank of 190 fame?

Harm-jan

it is good to know that some of the rare airframes there are being looked after. we did visit Moron during the trip but only saw a few GA aircraft

The Museo Nacional de Aeronautica is no longer to be found at the Aeroparque but is now situated at the Moron AFB, about 45 minutes from the Aeroparque by taxi. A lot of aircraft are now housed inside 3 huge hangers. The Lincoln and Ju-52 amongst others are still displayed outside.
The Lincoln is in reasonable condition, the Ju-52 though has widespread and very severe corrosion and might be beyond saving.

Harm-Jan Strating

Thanks Paul,

It looks like a cross between a Saab J29 and a Mig-15, but not bad looking all the same.

TNZ

It is an Argentinian design called a Pulqui 2 ! – not sure how sucessful it was though

Great pics !! What’s the jet in the pic above the T-28 ?

TNZ

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