Argentina built a jet before the Cold War powers — then history tried to erase it.
The Pulqui jet was also designed and built in Argentina by 1947. It was the first aircraft of this type to be manufactured in Latin America. The project is the initiative of Juan Domingo Peron, who also wanted an aircraft capable of competing with the Soviets and the Americans. It is thus that the Pulqui has its baptism recognized flight before the MIG -15 and F -86 Sabre, suspiciously similar design to Pulqui. The project was cut short Pulqui the 1955 coup. But in the documentary, the plane Peronist have a second chance from the hand of the artist Daniel Santoro and Michael Biancusso engineer and metallurgist, who reconstructed thus scale to relive an epic Peronist.
Direction
Fernández Mouján treats metal and memory with equal reverence.
Practical Effects
The reconstructed model is tactile proof against historical amnesia.
Production
Archival footage that feels smuggled from an alternate timeline.
Director
Alejandro Fernández Mouján
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Pulqui II's designer, Émile Dewoitine, was a French engineer who'd worked for the Nazis — Perón's recruitment of 'technicians without ideology' was controversial even then.
The 1955 coup that killed the Pulqui project also banned Perónism until 1973; the plane became a literal forbidden object, with surviving models hidden or destroyed.
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