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Hola everybody!

I found a very interesting illustrations of the CASA AXthe new attack aircraft at the end of 60´s or beginning of 70´s and the CASA ATX of the 80´s, I´ve been surfin trough the web trying to find more information, but i couldn´t find anything else, maybe the friend Pometablava can help us, including an image of those hispano HA-60?

Saludos
 

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Raravia,

The AX project it is not from 60-70's timescale. It is a more recent project. I posted the following information at keypublishing forums:
(Source is Avion Revue, an Spanish Aerospace magazine)

CASA EA/AX
1984
C-101 development with a more powerful engine

CASA AX
1986
1988: end of definition phase
1990: end of development phase
1992: First flight
1996: First series aircraft operational
72 aircraft (F-5 replacement) to complement Eurofighters in XXI century planned Spanish Ejército del Aire
Transonic attack aircraft, 1 EJ200 without afterburner
Some stealthy features to be incorporated.
CASA tried to find cooperation at MBB and Dassault. It was considered to be a better choice to AMX in international market.

AX very first concept, twin engined (that you posted Raravia)
AX shows more advanced concept (attached here)

Next and last project related to the series was ATX
 

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CASA C-101 Origins.

In 1970, Spanish Air Force (Ejército del Aire) considered a new basic/advanced trainer either a Saeta derivative or a new design. The new design idea prevailed and both Spanish manufacturers (CASA-Construcciones Aeronáuticas Sociedad Anónima and HASA-Hispano Aviación Sociedad Anónima) proposed its own fresh design.

In 1971, HASA HA-25 was declared the winner. It was a very classical straight wing aircraft. The rival from CASA was a quite radical delta wing design.

In 1972 Spanish Ministry of Industry decided a major Aerospace Industry reestructuration and HASA was merged with CASA. Thus, the HA-25 was renamed C-101 Aviojet.

Source: Hispano Suiza 1904-1972. Manuel Lage. Ed LID.

Unfortunately I have no CASA contender design :(


In my research about Aeorspace Tech History I have found a very curious aircraft, the Nord Aviation-Sud Aviation-Bölkow Messerschmitt design submitted to Franco-German Trainer program won by Breguet-Dasault-Dornier Alphajet (Source: Aviation Magazine No 516 June 1969). Please take a look at it! :eek:
I find it very similar to C-101. Does anybody know if there was any conection between Messerschmitt and HASA?.

In fact, the Me400 offered to German AF was based on elements from Saeta.
 

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I think, the picture of the Alpha Jet rival is the E-650 Eurotrainer, although
still in a configuration with a low set tailplane. It was a joint development
by SNIAS and MBB, but I didn't hear of a participation or by CASA or use of
a CASA design.
 

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CASA put forward the AX project, more as a follow on from their C-101 Jet trainer. A move to replaace Spain's F-5B's, a logical progression for the company....albeit somewhat at odds to the reality of the industry.
 

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The CASA AX was a plane which was already dead by the time it was born.

At the time ir was conceived there were lots of confience on the ability fo CASA to develop a modern light attack airplane on a moderate/small budget. Unfortunately, by the mid 80s it was clear the AX was going to be operationally obsolescent by the time it was ready, and the export possibilities were slim. Surely the convoluted AMX history did help to make the Spanish AF mind.

The AX was to be a modern age F-5, with a limited range and load capability. At the time the concept phase was being finished it was though as a sort of small F-18 and to share as many subsistem as possible with the Hornet, including at the time the F404 powerplant without afterburner. Computers, navigation suite and as many electronics as possible were to be the same for the sake of commonability.

In the end, by the late 1980s it was clear that a production AX was to be as least as expensive as the F-18. This and the fact the EFA was (very optimistically) quite close to its IOC date led to the cancellation of the project. CASA at the time was working in a civilian short haul turboprop named CASA 3000 which was also axed not long after due to the fact the market was nil.

Ala 21 operating the Freedom Fighter became planeless once the F-5A was retired due to estructural concerns and the F-5B was sent to the training Ala 23. To fill the gap left by the AX the Air Force sent C-101 training planes. Spanish 101s have never carried weapons (only a few planes used by CLAEX for developmental work) so they were used only to keep pilots current while a solution was found. This took a little to arrive due to budget constraints (remember the big 1993-95 economic crisis). In the end, the AF bought 24 second hand F/A-18 Hornets from US Navy stocks (the first Hornets available) to complete the AX program.

The last fighter development actually carried out by the Spanish AF was the Hispano HA 300, developed by a team led by Willy Messerchmitt. Designed to be a light supersonic fighter, the plane didn`t survive the 1959 economic stabilization plan designed to correct the Spanish economic decline brought by the typically fascist "self sufficent" policies run after the end of the Spanish civil war and the end of the Spanish economic isolation inthe second half of the 50s. We were receiving plenty of cheap military stuff including combat aircraft from the US and a supersonic fighter was a luxury Spanish economy could not pay for. The program was cancelled and all the plans and work was sold to Egypt. A fairly large team of Hispano Aviacion personnel moved to Egypt to help develop HA 300 and stablish the prodcution lines for the licensed HA 200 to be also build in Egypt. The HA 300 was further refined and a prototype was flown. The idea was to fit it with the Bradner E300 turbojet also to be made in Egypt and for a time a Indian Marut was also aorund as the Egiptiam and Indian governments wanted to have both the Marut and the HA 300 powered by this engine. The 1967 war and the massive influx of cheap war materiel from the USSR plus the poor Egyptian economy forced the cancellation of further work in the project, the Spanish team retiring back to Spain after the project was cancelled.
 
The same style retouch game
 

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interesting projects , very beatiful concept aircraft !! :)

So, could be a coincidence but last picture of late studies about Casa AX remember the Saab Jas-39 Gripen ! :D
 
Hi!

And another one coincidence: Sukhoi S-37
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/1751/s373.jpg
 
Its not coincidence, its the trend of that time. The same as now in UCAS development. Also remember that the Spain is from mid 80s the part of the Eurofighter canard/delta development team.
 
raravia said:
Hola everybody!

I found a very interesting illustrations of the CASA AXthe new attack aircraft at the end of 60´s or beginning of 70´s and the CASA ATX of the 80´s, I´ve been surfin trough the web trying to find more information, but i couldn´t find anything else, maybe the friend Pometablava can help us, including an image of those hispano HA-60?

Saludos
Is it possible to have dimensions of these projects?
 
Is it possible to have dimensions of these projects?

I think the ATX was included in some Jane's AWA so it would be possible to find dimensional data there. Unfortunately I have no access to any JAWA editions but other members could help us...

Thanks in advance,

Antonio
 
I never see those before...

It´s the CASA Heinkel C-101 (project C.7) competitor of the Hispano HA-300 (Messer project C.6)
 

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As an Aussie I have to say I am very envious of both the Spaniards and the Brazilians, who I admire very much for what they have achieved in aviation given the size of their populations and GDPs... puts Australia to shame... all the more... because we have really good innovators down here. Good onya, Spain, keep it up, and Brazil, you have alot to be proud of.
 
Incredibly interesting. What is a source of the drawings?
Piotr


Thanks... the source is:
http://www.ejercitodelaire.mde.es/stweb/ea/ficheros/pdf/739C1313EA4F3A44C125767F0038CD13.pdf

The graphics are part of an article in Spanish from the official magazine of the Air Force, Revista de Aeronaútica y Astronaútica, specifically, the magazine can see in this post,
http://www.ejercitodelaire.mde.es/stweb/ea/ficheros/pdf/7A1A78A19DD01283C125767F0038BBE9.pdf
and the interesting thing is between pages 78 and 81 of this PDF.


1Saludo
 
Hi,

here is the CASA ATX.
 

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Hi,


CASA C.205 was a trainer and multi purpose project,powered by two 1200 hp
Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engines,also the C.206 was a trainer and multi purpose
project,but powered by two 1400 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engines.
 
Are you sure about the HP ratings of those R-2800s? I can't believe they'd de-rate an R-2800 that much. Heck, just letting them idle would give that HP! :)
 
My dear Apophenia,


I am sure,P & W R-2800.
 
Poor Google transation of this article from Revista de AERONAUTICA Y ASTRONÁUTICA December 2009. Added a couple of pics from Heinkel topic.


http://www.ejercitodelaire.mde.es/stweb/ea/ficheros/pdf/7A1A78A19DD01283C125767F0038BBE9.pdf

The Secret History of the first C-101
SAN CARLOS PÉREZ EMETERIO

PERHAPS WAS THE LEAST KNOWN OF FIGHTERS PROJECTED BY HEINKEL. SECRET PAPER STARTED, ENDED IN WET PAPER. EXISTENCE OF YOUR DATA JUST A FEW WERE SOME MARKS THAN HALF A CENTURY ASLEEP IN THE COLLEGE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERS. NOT LONG AGO, JOSE LOPEZ RUIZ EXTRACTED FOR US FROM THE DRAWER OF HISTORY. WHO WAS THE BETTER KNOW THE CASA-HEINKEL C-101 PROJECT. HIM, AND HIS MEMORY, VA DEDICATED THIS ARTICLE.

Always said Ernst Heinkel had come, or at least had "passed through" through Spain in 1956. its hypothetical visit to the CASA factory at Tablada, if true, no photo or document that accredits was preserved; Too bad, would have been quaint see walking among old Heinkel He-111 with Rolls Royce Merlin engined while not far away, in the district of Triana, his great rival Willy Messerschmitt developing a supersonic fighter. Heinkel Do you really wanted to compete with him in Spain?

Who brings what and why?

In a small room of the College of Aeronautical Engineering, as a receiver, José López Ruiz looks back at the drawings of C-101 with nostalgia. I liked more than the HA-300, I do not know, I see more beautiful, do not you think?

But hey, who cares, this was impossible, as the fighter Meserschmitt. By the way, brought him González Gallarza Messerschmitt, Heinkel and ... look, I'm quite sure that it brought Fritz Schaeffer, who had been part of their team in Germany.

Very plausible hypothesis. Schaeffer, one of the greatest geniuses in the German jet engine project, had appeared in 1951 in Madrid. He carried under his arm the planes of his masterpiece, the S-011 I 1300 kilos of thrust. Intended to succeed the Jumo-004 in 1946, the S-011 I came late to propel the last reactors Hitler's Luftwaffe, but Schaeffer had retained some technical drawings and documentation; apparently buried in the garden of his home. Something that would be lucky for your future. His friend Oto Skorzeny, who knew the greed of the Air Force to enter the jet age, brokered. And he managed to sell the project for two million pesetas Technical Studies Center and Special Materials, CETME. At the request of INI, CETME, came to build four prototypes of the reactor, now renamed INI-11 Aries. yes; Schaeffer may be.

The truth is that, to the heights of 1956, Heinkel was ten years older unfinished moving erratically to find their way. In 1952, during a visit to the Farnborough Airshow hinted that licensed from de Havilland Comet I for the new Lufthansa. Obviously without any response. Then he was invited by the Egyptian government to design and build a jet fighter with great potential.

But again, luck turned her back; authorities of Cairo, in the end, ended up in the arms of his great rival, Willy Messerschmitt, through La Hispano Aviación.

SMALLEST SUPERSONIC FIGHTER IN THE WORLD

Heinkel then radically changes his mind. It convinces you have a much better chance of success if it comes to playing on the field and get Messerschmitt fighter realizing the smallest possible reaction. Maybe you feel attracted, or at least influenced, by Petter English and incredible Gnat light fighter. But he has ideas and decides to bet on the delta wing tailless, as the Dassault MD-550 later called Mirage I. And, as charges sent around light fighter worth his salt, the engine should be the Bristol Siddeley Orpheus, although supersonic version, with a little afterburner. For López Ruíz things were clear. Heinkel wanted his C-101 project entered in the competition for light NATO fighters who ended up winning the Italian Fiat G-91. Something that in retrospect was a monumental chimera. NATO, of course, wanted light fighters, but wanted ground attack air-to-air high capacity, and one C-101 hang gliding was just the opposite. And not to mention it's past and the memory of Heinkel I-111 bombarded their London; all too recent for NATO is accepted just like that; being much less Spain through.

Still, in the spring of 1956 Heinkel visit Madrid with planosdel stored in an elegant portfolio lightweight fighter. The government, of course, is aware. Since he is Aeronautical Constructions completed with a lunch at restaurant Club 31, Alcala Street. Your host is D. Pedro Huarte Mendicoa, Director, Office of Project HOME and the food will accompany Fritz Schaeffer, Jose Lopez Ruiz and Ricardo Valle. That's when Lopez Ruiz is captivated through Heinkel. I remember perfectly.

I saw the plans on the table. All annotated in German. Four leaves Heinkel bringing in the wallet ... nothing. Huarte told me with great mystery: this is top secret. Heinkel, meanwhile, explained what could be one tiny game. By then, none of those great German engineers, Heinkel, Messerschmitt Kurt Tank, Horten (perhaps Lippisch was the exception) had planned to fly anything over Mach 1, but I think they had exchanged information with each other; yes, I am convinced. Now, I insist, Heinkel captivated us all. I knew what he said had a clever face ... something terrible ... After lunch, Huarte Mendicoa secretly called for López Ruiz and instructed to get down to work. -A See López Ruiz, you having cooler I calculate the polar, check me if figures giving Heinkel performances are real. Not that Lopez Ruiz for his youth had "cooler" calculating polar; is that it was a brilliant engineer who, at least in mathematics, pulled several lengths ahead of his Project Manager, the legendary Don Pedro. He was only twenty-six and had just arrived home after a stint as an intern at INTA. Check Heinkel calculations would take well into 1957 Le seemed accurate, but not what he was seeing the extreme complexity of the wing structure. It was a half-delta implementation, consisting of two semialas perfectly removable, who joined the wing spar. The anchor was a real puzzle. The drawings came and went constantly from your table of Ricardo Valle, another young engineer who also put fault the Wing: I do not understand this structure based Heinkel stringers, 'he said this will be too complex to build, I prefer frames ...
Valle blunted in the calculation of structures, but his greatest fortune was to have his side to the very Polman Herman, the designer of Junkers Ju-87 Stuka. For those of fate, Polman, who left Germany in 1945 to escape the allies could reach Spain from the hand, too, Otto Skorzeny. They had found shelter in the Project Office and heights HOUSE 1956 had already left an imprint happy working on the C-207 Azor. And thanks to the salary of Casa had rented a little cottage in Canillejas. A day came and went from the Office in Metro Project HOME, along Princess Street to Sales; and on the tram from there to Canillejas. At sixty years old, seemed a happy and caring man; particularly López Ruiz, who through the age difference, it was like a son. On the Wing C-101 does not seem to rule. But surely remember the old days; when, in 1935, Willy Messerschmitt won the game and got a Heinkel the Me-109, with a simpler wing, be imposed on the He-112. Something, however, did not matter after twenty years. Polmann knew full well that the Spanish industry was not prepared to supersonic fighters, let alone to develop jet engines. INI-11 Aries, in fact, abandoned in late 1956, but not before Mendicoa Huarte, asked us:
Tell me, López Ruiz, if got give more thrust to Aries, do you would install on the C-101, instead of Orpheus?
Completely impossible to exhaustively questioned replied the.

KEEP IT IN A DRAWER

Nevertheless, the Ministry and stamped the C-101 gave the official blessing denominándole C-7, behind, both HA-300, which was C-6 and obviously the Sabre, which was C-5. In practice that was it, as with the first months of 1957, the project began to crumble on contact with reality. On one hand, the prototypes (*) for the contest NATO were already flying and about to start fas ede evaluation. In this sense, Heinkel and he would have convinced his C-101 had nothing to do. Furthermore, the Air Force already had the F-86 and viewed with considerable skepticism the development of HA-300 The Hispano Aviacion. If the country was not going to pay that chimeric HA-300, do compete with other equally impossible, and something was insane; more so if you think that the draft Heinkel was not yet fully developed; and that its very existence was against this rule in postwar whereby bombers and transport aircraft CASA and corresponded to the fighters and coaches to the Hispano Aviación.

The inevitable outcome reached by the spring of 1957 One morning Don Pedro Huarte Mendicoa rewound the C-101 planes and went boldly to the Air Ministry. I received the Minister, Rodriguez and Diaz de Lecea. He was there all morning. When he returned to the project office came pale, like someone just got a jug of ice water. He immediately called Lopez Ruiz and vehement tone between confidential and said:
-A See López Ruiz, these planes and all that the C-101 thong ... everything., Huh ..? store it in a drawer. And that's it. Without further.
Then topped with some vehemence:
it does not talk about this again. Not without some perplexity, López Ruiz complied. And in a few minutes the C-101 passed the secret to oblivion. Moreover, in the same drawer he found a project that he had begun, in which, following the rule of the area, gave way to bottle Coca Cola fuselage drawn by Heinkel. But this time it was more dramatic, and, as was his, broke directly without asking.

POSTSCRIPT

Hienkel Ernst died on January 30, 1958, just turned seventy. Even two months ago not a photographer captured her image toasting with champagne with his great rival, Willy Messerschmitt. Both smiled resignedly. A symbol. History, and NATO, are now assigned the role of making licensed the Fouga Magister. They, the parents of the first jet fighters ...

Meanwhile, Herman Polman return to Germany to direct the destinies of the Hamburger Flugzeugbau HFB. There, in 1959, he was reunited again with his young friend López Ruiz, who visited him to discuss the C-209, a version of Azor pressurized Napier Eland turboprop. Obviously, the project came late and without a future, but in the end, all things considered, that was not important, because thanks to two big engineers that utopia, a veteran and a very young, to be returned, this time in a cold and severe HFB building.

And now tell me, López Ruiz, how is Madrid? And my neighborhood Canillejas ...?
(*) The participants in the Contest NATO prototypes were on the French side, the Breguet Taon the SNCASO Baroudeur and Dassault Etendard versions II, IV and VI. On the Italian side the Fiat G-91, which eventually turned out winner.

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Artist's impression of the C-101 in clean configuration. It would be like halving the Convair F-102, which it resembled in general, but more Heinkel adelantase position air intakes.

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This drawing of the C-101 plan suggests the landing gear retraction, influenced by the minimum dimensions of hunting. The two main legs retract forward; the nose back.

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In Profile striking razor-sharp nose cone, which had housed a small radar antenna about thirty inches in diameter. The ejection seat had been, probably, the same as the British fighter Gnat.

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Seen perfectly flat appreciates the average wing establishment, like the Convair Deltas.

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Drawings and General Characteristics of C-101 with the signature of M. Esteban, assistant López Ruiz. Two configurations differ arms. In one, two 30mm cannons eight unguided rockets are appreciated. In the other four 30mm cannons. A third set but kept both barrels replaced launchable rockets and fuel tanks for two bombs of 250 Kg. Drawings are dated May 21, 1956 and stamped "secret".
 

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Schematic Court C.A.S.A. Heinkel He-101 Fighter designed by Ernest Heinkel unfortunately not step models and drawings stamped "Top Secret" this drawing is a mere speculation on the available data, for which several papers were modified to recreate at this failed project.



A small, modest contribution Motocar

Post date: Coming'll be editing this schematic cut in light of new data collected here
 

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This forum got new data, some images of a model of the house Heinkel He-101, shows large differences from my cutaway, being the most visible windshield lower delta and middle position in the second photo ala some data such as dimensions, showing that really was a hunting show very small, as happened in Argentina with the IA-33 Pulqui II and IA-37, the supply of North American F-86 Sabre, put paid to that project, which at the time was the supersonic fighter world's smallest.

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