Thanks! there is some wheat among a lot, a lot of chaff, The one redeeming feature is that articles by Ferreti (whom I met in Córdoba in the 1990s) and Giro on the two decades of (aircraft) production at the Fábrica Militar de Aviones.(June 1962) At the time,the remains of an Aé.M.O.1 had appeared, and my friend Pancho San Marín and Ferreti they were hoping fund would be available to restore this rare aircraft.
The claim that the Indian HF 24 Marut was developed in the Argentine by Kur Tank is nonsense. A c cording to his offical biography (Design for Flight, by Heinz Conradis, who accompanied Tank to the Argentine) by he early 1950s, the Peron regime was in severe financial straits, and aircraft production virtually ceased, except for a few gliders and 2-3 prototypes. Tank began looking for employment oveseas, as his once generous salary was reduced by the constant devaluation of the peso, and in 1954 he traveled to India, in search for greener pastures. His contract would not be renewed, as he had lost much credit with the fatal accidents which involved the 2nd. and 3rd. prototypes of the IA 33 Pulqui II, and mark the ascendancy of Reinmar Horten, designer which Tank hated, and due to his influence in nazi circles in Germany, kept relegated to a secondary role. This campaign against Horten continued in the Argentine, hence when Tank's prestige declined, Horten was given a green light to proceed on his I.A. 37 supersonic fighter and the I.A. 38 flying wing.The 1955 revolution found him in that country, and as soon as Peron was overthrown, he returned to the Argentine and begged to be released from his contract (which was not destined to be renewed, as the crash of the fir. The provisional government that succeeded Peron found no aluminum stocks and the former FMA (which was designated as IAME (or Industrias Aeronáuticas y Mecánicas del Estado) and only two out of 4 Rolls-Royce engines acquired 1948-49.
As far as the HF Marut, design work began in 1956, with
Kurt Tank as lead designer. The Project Engineer from
HAL was George William Benjami. The first prototype made its maiden flight on June 24, 1961. Production began in 1967, but the aircraft proved a total failure.
Now, as far as the fixed landing gear I.A.é 22 : (see my earlier post)
What a pity. That cuts off quite a few lines of research that I had been developing.
I was hoping to find designs or prototypes, like this DL variant offered to the Navy
Actually, the aircraft in question here was I.A.é 22 s/n 746, which as remarked earlier, was experimentally fitted with a fixed undercarriage, to facilitate the transition to the retractable undercarriage production model, for pilots which had been trained on the North American NA 16. The Navy actually evaluated the I.Aé 22, for a year, was pleased with the aircraft, and placed an initial order for 10 of these trainers. However, the
Instituto Aerotécnico (the former FMA, and future IAME) could not guarantee delivery dates, and instead t
he Aviación Naval obtained an initial batch of 60 AT-6Bs/SNJ-4s Somewhere in y files I have a pic of the aircraft actually evaluated by the Navy, will look for it...