- Year
- 1958
- By
- Dyrgalla, Ricardo
- Published
- Buenos Aires: Dirección de Publicaciones / Asociación Argentina Interplanetaria.
- Edition
- Spanish. First edition, stapled wraps.
- Ciancone
- N/A.
- Shelf
- L3
- Catalog
- Catalog D · Prelude to Sputnik
Number 3 of the series Cuadernos Aeronáutica Argentina, printed in Buenos Aires on 5 March 1958. A technical description of the AN-1, the first liquid-propellant rocket engine built in Argentina, burning nitric acid and aniline. It was built in 1947–48 by the armed forces’ scientific and technical research institute in Córdoba under Dyrgalla’s direction and design, to power the AM-1 Tábano guided aircraft, a redesign of the German Enzian. The engine’s existence was first made public in a lecture Dyrgalla gave in Córdoba in October 1950.
Sections cover the aircraft, propellant choice, the motor unit, chamber and nozzle, injection, tanks, cooling, and the test stand, with photographs and drawings. The preface by Teófilo Tabanera, president of the Asociación Argentina Interplanetaria, notes the engine ran for only a few seconds.
Dyrgalla (1910–1970) was a Polish engineer and RAF reconnaissance pilot who later worked on the Prosón M1 sounding rocket and taught in Brazil. His earlier book on German guided missiles is in Catalog C (Aircraft as Fighter Robots, 1948).
