In 1924, Raul Pescara, an Argentinean working in Paris, built a coaxial helicopter with biplane rotors and achieved a record by flying 736 meters. Two of those planes are now in the Museo Aeronáutico of Uruguay. The Castaibert planes were used for exhibition and school, and later were the first planes used by Argentina and Uruguay's air forces.
Castaibert began the construction of the first Argentine airplanes, but production was interrupted when, because of World War I, he couldn't import the engines The first planes to fly in Argentina came fromįrance, and some were used as models for the first Argentinian planes. Almonacid also carried out the first night bombing mission for the Allied Forces during World War I. The first night flight over the Andes in a Spad aircraft with a 220 CV engine. Godoy, who flew a Bristol airplane equipped with a 110 CV engine. The crossing over the highest peaks of the range was performed on 12 December 1918 by the Chilean pilot D. However, Candelaria flew to the south, where the mountainsĪre lower. Candelaria on in a Morane Saulnier (Parasol) with a Le Rhone rotary engine of 80 CV. However, Newbery crashed and died withoutĪccomplishing his goal of crossing the Andes. On 10 February 1914, with a Morane Saulnier aircraft powered by a 80 CV supercharged engine, he reached an altitude of 6225 meters, exceeding the world record by 75 meters. Newbery, the passenger in that plane, and it prompted him to improve the altitude Flying across the Andes range was an obsession for the Argentine aeronautical pioneer J. With a passenger over the water, flying from Buenos Aires to Montevideo. The following year, the German pilot Lübbe, in a Rumpler Taube with a 110 CV Argus engine, set the world record flight Fels flew back to Buenos Aires the following day. The Rio de la Plata, joining Buenos Aires with Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1912, Teodore Fels used a Blériot to accomplish the first crossing of Brégi flew a biplane Voisin with a 60 CV engine, reaching an altitude of 60 meters and a speed of 53 kilometers per hour. The celebration included several planes and pilots fromįrance and Italy. Brégi on 6 February 1910, during the centennial commemoration of Argentina's May Revolution of 1810. Recorded flight of a vehicle heavier than air was made by the French pilot E. It was the first flight over the Andes range. The flight took a little more than three hours and reached an altitude of 8100 meters. Started in Santiago, Chile, and ended in Argentina's Uspallata Valley. Zuloaga flew over the Andes in a flight that Occurred in the second half of the 19th century, but it was not until the first years of the 20th century that the frequency of those flights increased. The first Argentinian manned balloon flights, mainly with French aerostats,
The forbidding Andes Mountain range made Argentina an attractive destination for flight pioneers from other countries and a challenge for the country's own people.
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