Empresa Aeronautica Ypiranga
The Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga was a Brazilian aviation company in São Paulo and was founded in 1931 by the American Orton Hoover , the Brazilian Henrique Dumont Villares and the German Fritz Roesler .
In 1914 Orton Hoover came to Brazil to assemble three Curtiss-Wright seaplanes bought by the Brazilian Navy . He settled permanently in Brazil in 1928 and worked with Federico Brotero on the development of the IPT Bichinho, a single-seat sport aircraft. Henrique Dumont Villares was the nephew of Alberto Santos Dumont and Fritz Roesler (born in Strasbourg) was a German fighter pilot in the First World War before going to Brazil. In 1923 Roesler founded a flight school near São Paulo and together with George Coubisier , Francisco Matarazzo and others the airline VASP .
The Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga started operations with the production of the EAY-101 glider, a copy of the Stamer Lippisch Zöglings , of which six copies were built. The Taylor Cub was copied as the second aircraft model EAY-201 . The EAY-201 was a two-seat trainer aircraft and first flew in 1935. Only five copies were built. In 1942 EAY was then taken over by Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista . The EAY-201 continued to be produced as the CAP-4 Paulistinha .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of Orton Hoover (en) accessed September 9, 2012
- ^ Biography of Fritz Roesler ( Memento from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ A photo of the IPT-0-Bichinho on airliners.net