Argentina -- Equal opportunity employer

The Pulqúi II jet fighter “was designed for the Instituto Aerotécnico (I.Aé.) at Córdoba in Argentina by a German team led by the former Focke-Wulf chief designer Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Tank. The I.Aé.33 was envisaged as the successor to the Meteor in service with the Fuerza Aérea Argentina and embodied much of the experience gained by the German aircraft industry during WW II.”

As with almost all new aircraft, the Pulqui II had problems. By the time the last prototype flew, Tank’s design team had left Argentina. The development program was discontinued in 1960.

http://1000aircraftphotos.com/HistoryBriefs/IAe33Pulqui.htm

Tank was responsible for the Fw-190, Fw-200 and the Ta-152. With prohibitions against military aircraft after World War II, Tank took his talents to Argentina, as did many other Germans, both legal and otherwise.

Wikipedia says Tank negotiated “with the United Kingdom, the Nationalist government of China, and representatives of the Soviet Union and when the negotiations proved unsuccessful, accepted an offer from Argentina to work at its aerotechnical institute, the Instituto Aerotécnico in Córdoba under the name of (Prof. Dr.) Pedro Matthies.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Tank

When Juan Peron was ousted, Tank moved to India, where he designed the Hindustan Marut. He returned to Germany in the late 1960s.

Also interesting about the Pulqui II is that its predecessor, the Pulqui (Arrow) was designed by French aircraft builder Emile Dewoitine and by Commodore Juan San Martin.

http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/6717.htm

Dewoitine was responsible for the D.520, the best front-line fighter of the French air force in 1940. Dewoitine worked under Vichy France, and after the war went to Spain and then to Argentina. Tried in absentia in 1948, he was sentenced to 20 years for collaboration with Germany. The sentence was later proscribed, and Dewoitine returned to France, where he died in 1979.

In 1925 Dewoitine patented a landing chassis and tail skid in the United States.

http://www.google.com/patents/US1561698