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Old Posted Oct 2, 2008, 6:22 AM
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acerca de la historia del Pulqui I y II


PULQUI I




During test flights the aircraft proved severely underpowered and had low overall performance. Coupled with complexity of maintenance and operation, the programme was abandoned.

PULQUI I (IZQ) Y PULQUI II (DER)




PULQUI II









Meanwhile, the economic crisis that hit Argentina beginning in 1953 forced the slowing down of armament development programs. The high-cost high-profile Pulqui II project was halted, first temporarily, but the fall of Peron administration in 1955 meant it was never to recover. Kurt Tank (German aircraft constructor) moved on to another projects, first trying to return to Germany but then moving on to India. Most of his team ended up leaving Argentina to find work in the United States and other countries. Kurt Tank himself was not to return to his life and work in Germany until 1970s, where he died in 1983.

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