FMA I.Ae. 27

FMA I.Ae. 27 Pulqui I
Type:	Fighter plane
Design country:	Argentina
Manufacturer:	Fábrica Militar de Aviones
First flight:	August 9, 1947
Number of pieces:	1 prototype

The FMA I.Ae. 27 Pulqui I was a fighter aircraft project by the Argentinian manufacturer Fabrica Militar de Aviones .

history

The I.Ae. 27 was the first attempt by the Argentine Instituto Aerotécnico to develop a jet aircraft . The construction work was started in 1946 by a team led by the French engineer Émile Dewoitine . Only one prototype was completed, which first flew on August 9, 1947. The machine performed unsatisfactorily, which led to the termination of the project, especially since a team led by Kurt Tank at the I. Ae. 33 Pulqui II was worked.

construction

The machine was an all-metal construction. It was designed as a low-wing aircraft and had a conventional tail unit. The fuel tanks were housed in the trapezoidal wings. It had a retractable nose wheel landing gear, an elliptical fuselage cross-section with a central air inlet and was powered by a Rolls-Royce Derwent 5 .

Technical specifications

Parameter	Data
crew	1
length	9.69 m
span	11.25 m
height	3.39 m
Wing area	19.7 m²
Empty mass	2,358 kg
Max. Takeoff mass	3,600 kg
Cruising speed	600 km / h
Top speed	720 km / h
Service ceiling	15,500 m
Range	900 km
Engines	1 × Rolls-Royce Derwent 5 with 1633 kW
Armament (planned)	4 × 20 mm automatic cannons and bombs under the wings

Preserved copies

The only prototype built is in the Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica in Morón .

See also

• List of aircraft types

literature

• Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1951.
• Bob Ogden, Aviation Museums and Collections of the Rest of the World. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., 2008. ISBN 978-0-85130-394-9 .
• Marc Volland, The aircraft from Embraer: and other Latin American aircraft manufacturers from 1945, ISBN 978-3-8423-0004-0

Web links

Commons : FMA I.Ae. 27 Pulqui I  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Data from airwar.ru (Russian), accessed May 24, 2016
• I.Ae. 27 on taringa.net (Spanish), accessed May 24, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Data from airwar.ru (Russian), accessed on May 24, 2016