Santiago Rivas
Auteur van Wings of the Malvinas: The Argentine Air War Over the Falklands
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(eng) Santiago Rivas was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. He started his career as an aviation/defence journalist and photographer in 1997. Since then he has been published in mor than 60 books and magazines around the world, as well as being a correspondent on fourteen magazines and a permanent contributor to two Argentine aviation and defence magazines. Specialising in Latin American aviation and defence matters, both recent and historic, he manages Argentina's primary defence and aviation archive, providing materials for over 40 magazines around the world. He has published seven books in four countries as well as contributing to many more. Santiago lives in downtown Buenos Aires with his wife and three children.
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- Santiago Rivas was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. He started his career as an aviation/defence journalist and photographer in 1997. Since then he has been published in mor than 60 books and magazines around the world, as well as being a correspondent on fourteen magazines and a permanent contributor to two Argentine aviation and defence magazines. Specialising in Latin American aviation and defence matters, both recent and historic, he manages Argentina's primary defence and aviation archive, providing materials for over 40 magazines around the world. He has published seven books in four countries as well as contributing to many more. Santiago lives in downtown Buenos Aires with his wife and three children.
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jetcal1 | Jul 28, 2020 |
jetcal1 | Jul 28, 2020 | 
An extremely satisfying purchase.
This book is a truly ambitious survey of German and Italian aircraft, their civil and military customers, airlines, companies, and engineers throughout Latin America. Considering the scope of their subject, for a one volume effort, the authors have succeeded in producing an excellent stand-alone volume and a must have for any student of aviation. Coverage includes "transient" aircraft and post WWII activities as well. The book is well illustrated, has some color plates that are pretty decent and an excellent index. The TOC is arranged alphabetically by country with each chapter covering aircraft, airlines and indigenous production efforts when appropriate. "Axis" airlines and expat engineers also get their own chapter. A nice surprise was a chapter on aircraft that would be classified as today general aviation and privately owned.
This is an incredible book and highly recommended across multiple aviation spectrum's of interest. I look forward to more works by Mr. Tincopa and Mr. Rivas.… (meer)
This book is a truly ambitious survey of German and Italian aircraft, their civil and military customers, airlines, companies, and engineers throughout Latin America. Considering the scope of their subject, for a one volume effort, the authors have succeeded in producing an excellent stand-alone volume and a must have for any student of aviation. Coverage includes "transient" aircraft and post WWII activities as well. The book is well illustrated, has some color plates that are pretty decent and an excellent index. The TOC is arranged alphabetically by country with each chapter covering aircraft, airlines and indigenous production efforts when appropriate. "Axis" airlines and expat engineers also get their own chapter. A nice surprise was a chapter on aircraft that would be classified as today general aviation and privately owned.
This is an incredible book and highly recommended across multiple aviation spectrum's of interest. I look forward to more works by Mr. Tincopa and Mr. Rivas.… (meer)
Rather more of an encyclopedia than a narrative history, if there is something to say about German, Italian or Japanese aircraft in regards to Latin America it seems to be in this book.
Basically two trends are addressed. One is how the region provided an outlet for a German aviation industry during the constraints of the Versailles period and when a variety of efforts were made to get commercial air transportation established on a regular basis. The other trend is how in the mid-to-late Thirties Italy (and to a lesser degree Germany) became a source of high-performance warplanes for a number of air arms with varying degrees of success, with the biggest failure being experienced by Chile. That nation tried to totally reequip with German and Italian aircraft (even pro-fascist Argentina saw fit to diversify) and most of these aircraft failed to live up to their promise, particularly the Breda 65, which was supposed to do double-duty as a fighter and an attack plane and turned out to be incapable of even flying safely. One might have wished that the authors had seen fit to include more of the period Chilean media coverage, which one is given to believe was scathing.
If there is a particular lack in this work the authors might have provided a chapter giving an overall perspective of both the American effort to shut down German & Italian aviation efforts in the Western Hemisphere and, for that matter, what was the perspective from Berlin & Rome in terms of their aviation policy towards the region; this would act as something of a capstone to what is a very impressive work.… (meer)
Basically two trends are addressed. One is how the region provided an outlet for a German aviation industry during the constraints of the Versailles period and when a variety of efforts were made to get commercial air transportation established on a regular basis. The other trend is how in the mid-to-late Thirties Italy (and to a lesser degree Germany) became a source of high-performance warplanes for a number of air arms with varying degrees of success, with the biggest failure being experienced by Chile. That nation tried to totally reequip with German and Italian aircraft (even pro-fascist Argentina saw fit to diversify) and most of these aircraft failed to live up to their promise, particularly the Breda 65, which was supposed to do double-duty as a fighter and an attack plane and turned out to be incapable of even flying safely. One might have wished that the authors had seen fit to include more of the period Chilean media coverage, which one is given to believe was scathing.
If there is a particular lack in this work the authors might have provided a chapter giving an overall perspective of both the American effort to shut down German & Italian aviation efforts in the Western Hemisphere and, for that matter, what was the perspective from Berlin & Rome in terms of their aviation policy towards the region; this would act as something of a capstone to what is a very impressive work.… (meer)
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I found this book thoroughly enjoyable. The coverage is as the authors claim very broad in scope.
The first chapter gives a brief overview of the progenitors of the A-17 along with a few photos of the said airplanes. From there the chapters go into the usual development, various prototypes, production, service, one-offs, and foreign operators’ sequence of chapters. All of which are nicely illustrated. One little thing that caught my eye was the mention of quiet exhaust manifolds installed as an experiment in 1938 on Pg. 46 and an in-service picture of a modified airplane taken in 1940. The experimental cowling aircraft get a few photo’s and a brief mention as well as the laminar-flow testbed.
Coverage of foreign operators and the initial transfers from the US in 1940 receive coverage that while are not in-depth in an archival sense are more than sufficient to satisfy 99% of the audience.
It’s difficult to single out the coverage of South American operations because that would imply the other coverage might be weak, which it is not. Students of South American aviation should simply consider the purchase of this volume for those chapters and the photographs simply due to the paucity of such literature in English. Overall? The coverage of foreign operators is excellent.
Photographic coverage is very good with enough detail shots for a non-resin modeler to be able to mildly detail and paint the cockpits accurately. There are plenty of color prints for them as well.
There’re a few nits to pick, one is very non-critical in nature. A few of the word got lost in translation into English. For example, the Latin America good will flight of 1940 is titled as the Latin American Good Will “raid”. I’m not sure I would agree the coverage is complete as the Northrop N-3PB is curiously missing and it was which was developed directly from an improved model of the Northrop A-17 the 8A-3N and found in Canada by the Norwegian’s as the “Nomad” as the same time the Canadian’s were flying the A-17A. A table of contents and an index would have also been welcome.
Overall? A strong “Must Buy” for anyone interested in the areas listed in the description on Amazon. Highly and unequivocally recommended.… (meer)