The Horton WWII designs were advanced enough, and Argentina could have had them flying by 1955 if Juan Domingo Peron hadn't been busy trying to supress insurrectionists.
Argentina figured that its time was better spent on communist too down planning and riots.
Argentina couldn’t pour piss out a boot when the directions are written on the heel.
Okay airplane test. In the first photo whats the four engine aircraft in the background ;)
My post has nothing to do with missiles but a strange occurrence in Bolivia back in the seventies.
I was at the airport in Tarija Bolivia and was somewhat confused about about of bunch of kids waiting to board a flight. Tarija is where Paraguay and Bolivia and Argentina join. In 1945 it was very isolated and a damn good place for Nazis to flee. These young adults and kids were blue eyed and very white and aroused my curiosity. They spoke Spanish as I. I asked a friend who they were. He said they were the descendants of Nazis that fled Germany at the end of the war in 1945.
I was working in Bolivia on drilling rigs looking for oil. The head of the drilling rig was a Bolivian that spoke only Spanish and German. He was actually 100 percent Bolivian native Indian.
Of course I was curious and asked him about his ability to speak German. He explained that he came from a wealthy family and they could put him in the best schools that were set up by the Nazis that fled Germany at the end of the war. He did not say Nazi but said “good German schools” Therefore he learned German in the best schools and then went to Heidelberg for his degree in petroleum engineering. He was a good engineer and a good person.
Those were strange times in my life. I was young.
There were a number of former Luffwaffe engineers and designers that made their way into Argentina . I recall reading about a fighter built by the Argentines that seemed to have a respectable performance.
The Hortons developed and built the Ho 229 flying wing fighter.
The Horton WWII designs were advanced enough, and Argentina could have had them flying by 1955 if Juan Domingo Peron hadn't been busy trying to supress insurrectionists.