I can't understand why Argentina's government invested time and money
on such weird ideas, when IMHO they should have invested FIRST on
developing their "conventional" (so to speak) aircraft industry and
THEN on "revolutionary" projects.

Well, they had Reimar. He was certainly their best shot at a
breakthrough, and a breakthrough probably seemed their best shot at
developing significant aircraft.

There are always those who believe that the conventional wisdom is
wrong--that there is a carburetor that gives 80 mph to a gallon, only
the oil companies bought it up and suppressed it. The notion that hard
work and heavy investment is the way to progress is hard to swallow
for these people.

Argentina was in a tough spot in the 1950s. Twenty years earlier it
had been one of the important countries of the world, and now it was
sliding into irrelevance. No doubt Reimar looked good to the Peron
government, as a short-cut to the riches that should have been
Argentina's.


all the best -- Dan Ford
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