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Raul Pateras Pescara
Raul Pateras Pescara de Castelluccio (born in Buenos Aires in 1890 and died in Paris in 1966), marquis of Pateras-Pescara, was an Argentine lawyer and inventor specializing in seaplanes and helicopters, as well as motors, compressors, and the Pescara free-piston engine.
Biography
The beginning of the 20th century, his family returned from Buenos Aires to Europe. He worked with Gustave Eiffel on wind tunnel research to test a model torpedo-launching seaplane named the Pateras Pescara.G. Eiffel Air resistance and aviation, p. 240
In 1912, the Italian Ministry of the Navy tested the first aquatic torpedo launcher, based on ...
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