T-23 Uirapuru

The T-23 Uirapuru is a basic flight trainer used in both military and civil aviation training.

The Uirapuru is distinctive in appearance, largely because of the peculiar proportions of its design components. Its nose-mounted engine appears dwarfed by the close placement of the unusually broad, straight wing, the side-by-side cockpit appears truncated, and the tailboom seems bloated by the ve ntral fin that runs along its length.

The straight tailplane is at the base of the slightly...