HERACLIO ALFARO FOURNIER 1893-1962 AKA Heraclio Alfaro

Heraclio Alfaro (1893-1962) designed, constructed and flew the first airplane in Spain. - 1913

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      Using the Google search engine on "Heraclio Alfaro", you will find about 89 links. Only a few of them are very useful. I haven't found time to examine each of them, but I have selected a few of the most interesting. El apellido ALFARO      On this page, which is in Spanish, you will find a picture one of Alfaro's planes, the TH-E-2-ALFARO, 'with a few details of his life and career. You can access the site by clicking on the title above.

ALFARO      You will find two pages with information on Alfaro's planes and his motor on the AeroFiles website. To access the page which shows a picture of his Alfaro X-13 plane, with descriptive remarks, click on the title above and look for "Alfaro."      If you want to access the page on which is described his motor, you can click on: Motor      If time permits, I highly recommend that you sample the many other features of the AeroFiles website.

2 0 0 2 argitalpen katalogoacat á logo de publicaciones      This website offers a tantalizing clue to a book entitled Heraclio Alfaro, Aviador, inventor, ingeniero aeronáutico, José Luis Sáenz de Ugarte 1993. 149 páginas. 15 x 21 cm. The book is listed on Amazon, but it out of print and unavailable. I will try to contact the author so as to obtain more information.

 

HERACLIO ALFARO FOURNIER      A card recently received from Vitorio, Spain, showing a picture of Heraclio Alfaro Fournier seated in a monoplane, states that he died in Vitorio, Spain on August 10, 1962. He was a member of the Early Birds for many years. The necessary correction will be made in the next issue of the membership list. From The Early Birds of Aviation CHIRP, December, 1964, Number 71.

 

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