FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II
The FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II (in the indigenous language Mapuche, "Pulqúi": Arrow) was a jet fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank in the late 1940s in Argentina, under the Perón government, and built by the Fábrica Militar de Aviones (FMA). Embodying many of the design elements of the wartime Focke-Wulf Ta 183, an unrealized fighter project, the FMA envisioned the IAe 33 Pulqui II as a successor to the postwar Gloster Meteor F4 in service with the "Fuerza Aérea Argentina". The Pulqui II's development was comparatively problematic and lengthy, with two of the four prototypes being lost in fatal crashes. Despite one of the prototypes being successfully tested in combat during the "Revolución Libertadora", the political, economic and technical challenges faced by the project meant that the IAe 33 was unable to reach its full potential, and the Argentine government ultimately chose to purchase F-86 Sabres from the United States in lieu of continuing development of the indigenous fighter to production status.
Q33730
Mapuche
Concept
Q206592
jet
Concept
Q127771
fighter aircraft
Concept
Q61497
Kurt Tank
PER
Q414
Argentina
LOC
Q93330
Perón
PER
Q1478657
Fábrica Militar de Aviones
ORG
Q362
wartime
EVE
Q691995
Focke-Wulf Ta 183
MISC
Q140318
Gloster Meteor
MISC
Q57770
Fuerza Aérea Argentina
ORG
Q3042919
Revolución Libertadora
EVE
Q153826
F-86 Sabre
MISC
Q1389236
FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II
MISC
1940-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1940
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33
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33
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-86^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
-86
NUMBER
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