Shrouded in the dazzle of such monumental feats was the birth of a company whose name would be placed among the ranks of ...

The cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s May 20, 1985, issue featured a prototype of the joint Italian/Brazilian Aeritalia-Embraer-Aermacchi AMX light attack fighter in flight testing near ...

The AMX is an attack aircraft powered by a single 11,030-lb.-thrust Rolls-Royce Spey Mk 807 non-afterburning turbofan. Alenia and Aermacchi (then independent) initially pursued separate designs for ...

Embraer, the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, started making jets shortly after it began making propeller-driven planes. The company was founded through Legal Decree on August 19, 1969, beginning ...