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31: 363: 179:, where it won awards. Due to the excellent performance, the Ministry of Aviation, which wanted to provide the main domestic aeroclubs with new high-performance gliders, commissioned the newly founded Embraer aeronautical company to build 10 slightly modified examples in 1970, which were to be designated EMB-400 Urupema. The prototype was built by Pessotti, a Brazilian manufacturer of gliders. 166:
In 1964, a group of engineers led by Guido Fontegalante Pessotti began work on a high-performance glider, the IPD 6505 Urupema. The aircraft was intended to provide the best conditions for Brazilian pilots in world gliding championships. The prototype was started in 1965, but did not fly until 1968.
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Four examples were subsequently modified by IPE in such a way that a higher cockpit canopy was installed, as well as other seats that allowed the pilots to sit lying down, instead of almost lying down as
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The Urupema was designed as a shoulder-wing monoplane with a conventional tail unit. In front of the wings in the fuselage is the single-seat
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A prototype was built at IPD, developed by Guido Pessotti, at the request of the
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In the same year, the prototype participated in the
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Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
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TAM Museum
São Carlos, Brazil
Brazil
Embraer
IPE Aeronaves
Guido Pessotti
1968
1970
glider
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
São José dos Campos
1968 World Gliding Championships
Poland
Marfa, Texas
cockpit
canopy
wood
plywood
Institute of Aeronautics and Space
Andrade 1997
List of Brazilian gliders
CEA-101 CB.1 Gaivota
IPE Quero Quero
Aviation portal



"Urupema (in Portuguese)"
Andrade 1997

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