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Pulqui: Argentina's Jet Adventure
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2002/06/stuff_eng_profile_pulqui.htm
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Pulqui I preserved in the Argentinean Air Force museum in Buenos Aires.
Of note is also Horten flying-wing glider suspended from the ceiling..

Translated via Google.............

PULQUI III, THE STRANGE HISTORY OF HUNTING SUPERSONICO NAZIS TO EX DESIGNED FOR PERON
https://fortegaverso.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/pulqui-iii-la-extrana-historia-del-caza-supersonico-que-ex-nazis-disenaron-para-peron/
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Project supersonic interceptor delta wing shape, Dr. Reimar Horten design, erroneously known as PULQUI III. The aim was to achieve 1300 km / h. Development plans begin in 1953 and the goal was to prototype the first powered flight in 1956, but the project was delayed after the overthrow of Peron. In 1956 Horten has a change in the project, modifying the prone position by a conventional cab with folding acrylic dome to the right;

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Perón y la Tercera Posición. El IV Reich en la Argentina: EL MONSTRUO ALADO
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Despegue y caída de la Industria Aeronáutica Argentina
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Is that the one that is headed to Utah today?

Yup, it's a total POS and I can't believe how much they're spending to move it. That being said, there aren't that many non rebuilt first generation high short hood geeps left. When the GWR owned it some years they made more money rebuilding locomotives than railroading and they passed this one over.

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Originally Posted by A930Rocket (Post 8919483)

Dang! 300,000 feet is getting up there!

Certainly nose bleed territory. I copied the txt from a story :rolleyes:

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Son of a *****..if it don't !!!!!!!!! How it do that????