Eduardo Barrón
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Eduardo Barrón (full name Eduardo Barrón y Ramos de Sotomayor; 7 September 1888 – 13 January 1949) was a Spanish aeronautical engineer and military pilot who led the design department at Talleres Loring from 1923 to 1930.
Biography
Eduardo Barrón was born in a village in Colonial Cuba. His family moved to Spain towards the turn of the century, settling in Madrid. He studied at the Academy of Military Engineering of Guadalajara in 1902, becoming an apprentice lieutenant in 1907.[1] Barrón was posted to the Compañía de Aeroestación y Alumbrado en Campaña aerostat section in 1908 under Colonel Vives, becoming a certified balloon pilot in July 1909. His unit was transferred to Spanish North Africa where he took part in the local military campaigns between 1909 and 1910.[2]
In 1911 Barrón was transferred back to
In 1913 Barrón was posted to the Tétouan aerodrome, where he was in charge of the Lohner B.I aircraft newly bought from Austria-Hungary. He carried out reconnaissance and light bombing in the Tétouan area as leader of the group.[2]
Early aircraft development
In 1914 Barrón was transferred to
Barrón continued modifying the Flecha prototype,[6] producing a new Hispano-Suiza-fitted model which had improved visibility for the pilot and which he named Barrón W.[7] Subsequently, twelve Barrón W were built at the Cuatro Vientos workshops.[2] After a visit to France, where he studied in depth the building of the SPAD S.VII, he built a version of the same plane that he would designate España, also fitted with a Hispano-Suiza motor.[4] The Loring Pujol y Cia company in Barcelona was commissioned with building twelve units of the Barrón España, but these never entered active service owing to serious construction flaws.[2]
In 1917 Barrón, left the military in order to lead the aviation section of 'La Hispano', a subsidiary company of Hispano-Suiza.[2] He designed a reconnaissance and a fighter plane for the company in 1918, the Hispano Barrón.[8] However, the stock of cheap and more technologically advanced World War I planes available at the end of the conflict foreclosed any incentive for the development of a local aircraft industry for the time being.[2]
Barrón returned to the military profession in 1920 and was posted to the
Engineer at Loring and retirement
Barrón returned to Cuatro Vientos in order to become chief engineer at a newly built aeronautical factory, Talleres Loring, which had won a contract to produce Fokker C.IV reconnaissance planes under licence.[2]
While at Loring Barrón designed and tested his own planes in flight, beginning with the Loring RB military
Meanwhile, and despite the favorable situation the Spanish aeronautical industry enjoyed, other planes designed by Barrón remained in the prototype stage. Among these the following deserve mention: the
By 1930 Barrón suffered a
Later life
In 1931 Eduardo Barrón applied for retirement and obtained from the newly installed
Barrón moved to Seville, his wife's town, in 1933 where he lived in semi-retirement. In July 1936, at the outbreak of the
Bibliography
- Warleta Carrillo, José. Eduardo Barrón y Ramos de Sotomayor Archived 2012-04-13 at the Wayback Machine, in Aeroplano. Revista de Historia Aeronáutica, nº 6. Marzo 1989. p. 64 and foll.
- Permuy López, Rafael Angel y González Serrano, José Luis. Aviación Militar Española, editorial Tikal, Madrid, 2010, p. 13 and foll. ISBN 9788499280660
See also
- List of Interwar military aircraft
References
- ^ Ejército del Aire - Barrón y Ramos De Sotomayor, Eduardo
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Warleta Carrillo, José (1989). «Revista Aeroplano nº 6». En Instituto de Historia y Cultura Aeronáutica. Eduardo Barrón y Ramos de Sotomayor. Madrid. p. 64 and foll.
- ^ Centenario de la Aviación Militar Española (1911-2011), Fundación de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica Española, page 11
- ^ a b c L. Utrilla Navarro= ed. La Aeronáutica Española, de 1898 a 1936
- ^ Barron Flecha
- ^ Real Hermandad de Veteranos de las Fuerzas Armadas y de la Guardia Civil (eds.). Centenario de la Aviación Militar Española
- ^ Barron W
- ^ Hispano Barron
- ISBN 8488717296
- ^ Ejército del Aire - Fernando Rein Loring
- ^ Birth, first steps and pre-war planes of the Spanish Military Aviation
- ^ Ateneo - Jorge Loring Martinez