Hispano Suiza in Aeronautics

Men, Companies, Engines and Aircraft

List of Chapters:

Chapter 1 1913–1920: La Hispano Alfonso XIII and La Hispano Suiza, and Suiza V-8 Engines and the Establishment of La Hispano at Guadalajara The Birth of an Aviation Engine Project “Boccaccio,” a 400-CV V-16 The Visit by the Infante A Higher-Powered V-8: The 300-CV Engine First Designs—Initial Development The British, American, and Italian Hispanos, of the V-8 and Other Building Countries Initial Tests The American Hispanos Famous Visitors, First Flight, and the Visit of The Italian Hispanos the French Commission Ministérielle Other Building Countries Introduction in Paris—Controversy and The Hispano Suiza V-8 as a New Success Construction Concept—Production Technical Description—Construction Figures Characteristics The V-8 in Figures First Construction Licenses, and the Big Contract with the French Government Chapter 2 1919–1927: Establishment The V-8 and the First Steps by the Spanish of La Hispano Aircraft and the Société Aviation Industry Française Hispano Suiza CECA and the First Transatlantic Dream The Post-War Period at La Hispano Suiza of The First Transatlantic Dream Bois-Colombes Captain Barrón and His Airplanes The New H-6 Automobile Other Spanish Hispano Suiza V-8- The V-8—A Badge Creator Engined Aircraft Birkigt’s Disagreements with the Company Other Spanish Engines—Elizalde The Financial Results of La Hispano and , 1915–1918 Suiza, and Establishment of La Société French and Allied Aircraft Fitted with the New Française Hispano Suiza Engine—Synchronized The 1919 Concurso Militar, and Gun-Propeller Shooting System Establishment of La Hispano Aircraft Synchronized Gun-Propeller Shooting Barrón Leaves La Hispano Aircraft System Other Aircraft of the 1919 Concurso Evolution of the V-8 The First Guadalajara Series: The DH-6 and Initial Development the DH-9 The New 180-CV “Surcomprimé” The 1923 Concurso Militar, and Dissolution of The 200-CV Engine with Reduction La Hispano Aircraft Gear Dissolution of La Hispano Aircraft The 220-CV Engine and the Moteur- Other Spanish Aircraft with the 300-HP V-8 Canon The AME VI B, the Bristol F-2B, and Production of the New Versions in the Breguet XIV The Flying Boats Hispano Suiza in Aeronautics Men, Companies, Engines and Aircraft

The Pescara Helicopter The Black Legend of the Hispano Suiza The New 12-Cylinder Engines: Type 50 (12-G), Engines, and Absorption of the Type 51 (12-H), and Type 52 (12-J) Établissements Ballot New Versions of the 12-Cylinder Engines The Automobile and Railway V-12’s, and the The Final Versions of the V-8 Last Automobile Engines New Engines and New Records—The First The Air-Cooled Hispano-Wright Engines Transatlantic Flight by a Hispano Suiza The Hispano E-30 Aircraft Engine La Hispano Suiza, Fiat, and the End of La 1926—The La Hispano 25 and the Loring Hispano of Guadalajara R-III The Radial Engines Made in Barcelona, and The Loring R-III Spanish Aircraft Powered with Hispano- A.E.T. Roa’s Aircraft Wright Engines 1927—The Escuela de Transformación at The “Arturo Elizalde” Prize for Spanish Engines Guadalajara The Hispano-Clerget Experiences with Diesel The 1927 New Concurso of the Aviación Militar, Engines and the Hispano-Nieuport 52 12-Cylinder Engines Built in Barcelona, and Chapter 4 1932–1935: New Military Spanish Aircraft Powered by the New W-12 Developments, Engines Fitted with and V-12 Engines Compressors, and Cannons The Breguet XIX Aircraft The Dornier Wal The 12-X and 12-Y Engines with Compressors The Savoia S-62 Engines Derived from Aviation Engines for Other The Vickers Vildebeest Purposes The Great Record Flights with the New The 12-X and 12-Y Engines in Moteur-Canon 600-HP 12-Lb Engine Version The Jesús del Gran Poder The Supercharged Hispano-Wright Engines The Flight of the Oiseau Canari The Twin-Radial 14-Cylinder Engines The Numancia Odyssey The Variable-Pitch Hispano-Hamilton Propellers La Hispano Suiza and the Concursos of the Chapter 3 1928–1932: New Engine Spanish Aviación Militar—The HS-34 Light Ranges, and Fiat Buys La Hispano of Plane Guadalajara The 1935 Air Show, and the Hawker Fury and Osprey The New 1928 Engines—The 12-M, 12-N, 6-M, The Hawker Fury and 6-P—and the Gas Nitrided Cylinders The Hawker Osprey The New Automobile Engines The Hispano Suiza HS-404 Cannon The New Aviation Engines The 12-X and 12-Y Engines in Barcelona Further Developments in the 12-N The Death of Damián Mateu, Founder of La Engines Hispano Suiza The 18-Cylinder Engine for the Schneider Trophy, and Barrón’s Hexamotor Commercial Derivatives: The 12-Mc and the 18-S Barrón’s Hexamotor The Great Paris–New York Flight The Three World Records of Spanish Aviation The Silver Jubilee of La Hispano Suiza of Barcelona Hispano Suiza in Aeronautics Men, Companies, Engines and Aircraft

Chapter 5 1936–1939: The Spanish Civil The 1936 Railway Engines War—La Hispano Suiza in Republican- New Factories and Test Centers in , and Held Territory, and La Hispano Suiza in the 12-Y Reaches 1000 CV Nationalist Territory The 12-Y Reaches 1000 CV The Szydlowski-Planiol Compressors La Hispano Suiza in Republican The Final Development of the 12-Y La Hispano Suiza Projects in 1935– Engines 1936: The C-36 and RBL-36 Aircraft The New Pre-War Developments, and the 24-H The Factories at Guadalajara in 1936, and the 12-Z and the Move to Alicante The New Motor 12-Z Repairs and Transformations New Military Projects During the War The Vultee V-1A Surgery Chapter 7 1939–1949: Spanish Factories The Second Move After the Civil War, Establishment of La Production of the Polikarpov I-16 Hispano Aviación, and the End of La Mosca Hispano Suiza in Barcelona The Factory in Barcelona from 1936 to 1939 The Factory in Seville After the War, and the La Hispano Suiza in Nationalist Spain HS-132 L (Fiat CR-32) Agreement Between La Hispano Suiza The Dual-Control Fiat CR-32 and Fiat, and the New Factory in The New Prototypes Policy of the Ministerio del Seville Aire, the Renewed HS-34 Recovery of the Factory in Barcelona Light Plane (HS-41), and the HS-40 The End of the War at SAF-15 at The Renewed HS-34 (HS-41) Light Alicante Plane, and the HS-40 The HS-42/HS-43 Aircraft Chapter 6 1936–1945: The Société The HA-43 Variant Française Hispano Suiza in World War II The Hispano Suiza HS-50 Project, and the Argentinian Dossier The Société Française Hispano Suiza Before The Argentinian Dossier 1936 The Project for the HS-60 Training and Light The Establishment of the Société d’Exploitation Bombing Aircraft des Matériels Hispano Suiza Establishment of La Hispano Aviación, and the The Société Brevets Aéro-Mécaniques and the Impossible Return to Guadalajara New Hispano Suiza Productive Restructuring of the Factory in Companies in and Great Britain Barcelona, and the Contract with the French Hispano Suiza in Great Britain Government German Interest in the HS-404 Cannon Machine-Tool Construction, and Birkigt and His The HS-404 Cannon in the United States Team in Barcelona The American HS-404 and the British The 7-Cylinder Motor 93 Project HS-404 The Motor 89 12-Z in Barcelona, American Development of the HS-404 the End of La Hispano Suiza, and the The HS-404 in American Aircraft Establishment of the Empresa Nacional de The V-12 Built in the U.S.S.R. and Its Klimov Autocamiones, S.A. (ENASA) Derivatives Fuel Injection in the 12-Z Other 12-X and 12-Y Licenses The HS-404 Cannons in Spain, and The Last Engine Projects for Civilian Construction in Barcelona Applications The Built by La Hispano The Inverted-V Engines Aviación The V-12 Engine for the Deutsch Production Problems Coupe Operation Pepinos Hispano Suiza in Aeronautics Men, Companies, Engines and Aircraft

Comparison Between the Merlin Chapter 9 1949–1967: The Jet Aircraft, 500/45 and the HS-89 Engines and the End of La Hispano Aviación

Chapter 8 1945–1967: Recovery of The Agreements with Professor Messerschmitt the French Hispano Suiza, Industrial The End of the Wooden Aircraft Restructuring, and the End of the Other The HA-100 Training Aircraft Hispano Suiza Companies The First Spanish Jet Aircraft: The HA-200 Saeta The French Factories in World War II The Impossible Sale to Germany Continuation of Previous Developments: The Al Kahira, the Egyptian Saeta, and the Spanish 12-Z and Its 24- and 48-Cylinder Derivatives Saeta Series The Motor 89 12-Z at Bois-Colombes The Spanish Saeta Series The 24- and 48-Cylinder Projects The HA-210 Project, and the HA-200 Prototype New Projects: The Y-36 Engine, and the Study The Saeta Attack: The HA-200 C, the HA-57, of a Ramjet and the HA-60 Super Saeta Tactical Combat Study of a Ramjet Aircraft The Motor 100 (12-B) Project for Combined The HA-200 C Propulsion The Ground Attack HA-57 Single- A New Industrial Orientation, and Construction Seater of Diesel Engines The HA-60 Super Saeta Tactical The V-8 HS-103 Diesel Engine Combat Aircraft The Motor Diesel HS-110 Saetas Transformed into Single-Seaters: The The Motor Diesel HS-115 HA-200 F and the HA-220 The Constant Pressure Automatic HASA Armament Division Chamber (CAPC, Chambre Multi-Seat Aircraft Derived from the Saeta: The Automatique a Pression Constante) HA-56, HA-230, and HA-231 Projects The Nene, Tay, Verdon, and Hispano Suiza The HA-300 Supersonic Fighter R-800 Turbojets The HA-300 in Egypt The Nene Turbojet Engine The Jet Engines in Spain: The INI-Aries and The Tay Turbojet Engine ENMASA Marboré The Verdon Turbojet Engine The Me 400 and HA-500 Projects The New Hispano Suiza R-800 Turbojet The HA-500 Alacrán Project Engine 1972: Absorption of La Hispano Aviación by Industrial Turbines, Turbocompressors, and Construcciones Aeronáuticas Nuclear Equipment The MBB-223 Flamingo Built by HASA Turbocompressors The C-101—The Last HASA Project The Tyne Turboprop Nuclear Equipment Bibliography Other Activities Integration of SEM Hispano Suiza into Acknowledgments SNECMA, and the End of Société Française Hispano Suiza Appendix I Evolution of the Hispano Suiza The Hispano Suiza Companies in Holland and Companies in the World the The British MARC After the War Appendix II Complete Hispano Suiza The End of Hispano Suiza (Suisse) and Brevets Engine List, from Type 31 Aviation Engine Aéro-Mécaniques The HS-30 Armored Personnel Carrier Appendix III Hispano Suiza Aviation Engines The End of Brevets Aéro-Mécaniques Produced in Barcelona

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