First of all, this is one of the worst disasters in human history. Being an Argentine, I’m very proud that the mobile hospital of our Air Force was the most important facility to save lives after the disaster. Our far and “not important” country was there at the same moment when things happened and we save most of the lives that can be saved, without budget or a big and spectacular deploy, only with people that REALLY want to save lives!! I’m very proud of our guys!! Thankfully, we are there since 2004 and our guys know very well the reality in Haiti. I don’t think the US involvement are an invasion, the armed soldiers are a necessity, things are not in control and it’s not easy to distribute food and other goods there. The Argentine Marines at Gonaives know this since six years ago.
My country sent to KC-130H Hercules (serials TC-70 first and then TC-69, both Falklands veterans and in both I had the pleasure to fly on) with support, it’s not too much, because we are very far, but I hope they are useful. We have a lot of people working there in MINUSTAH and hopefully they can doo too much more to save this people.
But remember, the worst is only starting, they don’t have nothing, no home, no food, no medicines, nothing. We have to help them, not to discuss if we are invading them or not, they don’t care about it! they only want to live another day!

Dear sir Santiagorivas !

Thank You for good Costa Rican images !

Maybe, You also have some images of the following Costa Rican aircraft:

– Avro Anson;
– Beech 18/C-45F Expeditor;
– Cessna UC-78 Bobcat;
– Noorduyn C-64 Norseman;
– North American T-6 Texan;
– Republic P-47 Thunderbolt;
– Douglas C-47 Skytrain (military only);
– North American B-25 Mitchell, registered as TI-1026C (and other Mitchells – if those existed in Costa Rica);
– Douglas A-26 Invader, registered as TI-1040L/TI-1040P (and other Invaders – if those existed in Costa Rica).

…I think, although, that some aircrafts in this list are mentioned mistakenly – for example, P-47 fighters were never sold in Costa Rica (but, maybe – suddenly – this fact was in reality ???).

Let’s hope for the best…

Regards,
Flyer.

Hi Flyer, unfortunately, I don’t have pics of those planes. It’s not easy to find photos of Costa Rican planes. Maybe you can post a message at the forum of the Latin American Aviation Historical Society at http://www.laahs.com
Best regards
Santiago

Here it is.

Hi, thanks for the photo, but I already have this one, I’m trying to find more of them.

Like this one?

All found somewhere on the internet (maybe even here!!)

Do you have pics of their UH-1H?
Thanks

Hi guys, thanks a lot for the pictures. The history of the Iraqui Air Force is a real sad one.

Anachronistical nonsense.

Putting the ‘stealth’-label on the Ho-229 just because it’s a flying wing is like calling the Eiffel Tower a giant cellphone antenna because it’s a mast. The low radar signature the Horten design (appearantly) has is by coincidence, not by design. No matter how hysterical the spin in recent articles and ‘documentaries’.

Besides, the Ho-229 is (still?) at the NASM maintenance facility (Garber?) where it indeed wasn’t on display, but all too frequently publicly accessible during tours.

Besides, if that ‘Experimental Nazi Stealth Bomber’ was such a threat, I’m sure the ‘Operational Peronist Stealth Superfortress’ was even more of a peril during the 1950s than the Red Menace.

It’s the IA38 of course. Except that it was ment to fly fruit around. Which it never did because it was underpowered.

(Sidetracking: can anyone identify the plane to the right on the frontal view of the Naranjero? There’s a Pulqui to the right, but on the other side there seems to be some sort of high-nosed delta design, a bit like the Ha300. Can’t really tell what it is).

Hi it’s right, the plane on the side is the IA-37, another Horten design, which was intended as a supersonic jet fighter, but later was left behind in favor of the IA-48 project, which was also left behind in the early sixties. Note that the IA-38 was never called Naranjero, this is an invent from an author, which is a friend of mine, and now he corrected this on his new book, Las Alas de Perón II. The intention with the IA-38 was to use the IAR.19 El Indio engines (Used on the IA-35 Huanquero), but due to the lack of them, they installed the IAR.16 EL Gaucho, used on the IAe.DL-22. Horten made a lot of designes of flying wings in Argentina, including gliders surch as the IAe.34 Clen Antú, the IA.41 Urubú and the Piernífero. Examples of all of them still survive in Argentina. Also he made some projects of fighters, reconnaissance and liaison planes using the flying wing concept, but they never went far than the blueprints.
Bets regards
Santiago

Hi, my best wishes to Malcolm English, he was great in AI. Does anybody know who will be in the charge?