Huarte Mendicoa HM-1

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Huarte Mendicoa HM-1
military designation E.4
Huarte-Mendicoa HM-1B (5381341059) .jpg
Type: Trainer aircraft
Design country:

SpainSpain Spain

Manufacturer:

AISA

First flight:

April 1942

Commissioning:

1942

Production time:

1958

Number of pieces:

200

The Huarte Mendicoa HM-1 (also INTA HM.1 and AISA HM1 ) is a single-engine, two-seater Spanish low-wing aircraft with a tail wheel landing gear .

The training aircraft with tandem seats, double controls and closed cockpit was designed by engineer Pedro Huarte-Mendicoa Larraga , head of the project office of the General Directorate of the Ejército del Aire during the Second World War .

The first flight took place on April 7, 1942. At Aeronáutica Industrial SA (AISA) in Madrid , around 190 units of the HM-1 had been manufactured for the Academia General del Aire military flight school by the end of 1958 . A total of 200 copies were built. The military type designation of the HM-1B in Spain was E.4, some machines are still owned by aviation clubs today.

Technical specifications

  • Crew: 2
  • Length: 7.65 m
  • Span: 9.65 m
  • Height: 2.20 m
  • Empty weight: 620 kg
  • Maximum take-off weight: 850 kg
  • Powerplant: 1 × four-cylinder in-line engine Elizalde G-IV-B Tigre
  • Power: 150 hp
  • Top speed: 230 km / h
  • Cruising speed: 195 km / h
  • Service ceiling: 5,000 m

literature

  • Leonard Bridgman (Ed.): Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1945-1946. Samson Low, Marston & Company, Ltd., London 1946, (AISAHM1), p. 188c.
  • INTA aircraft. In: AERO - The illustrated compilation of aviation. Issue 96, p. 2688.

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