Huarte Mendicoa HM-1
Huarte Mendicoa HM-1 military designation E.4 |
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Type: | Trainer aircraft |
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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.
Web links
- Historia Huarte Mendicoa HM-1 on ejercitodelaire.mde.es