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  1. The “ South American airframe manufacturer” , as someone posted here , well in the same town they call home , way back in the 60’s they algo gained a polytechnic institute to feed them engineers. And state wide there were always federally and manufacturers sponsored vocational schools churning out tradespeople. The Polytechnic is known as I.T.A or Instituto Tecnico de Aeronáutica , in Sao Jose dos Campos . It is tuition free, but getting in there , one has to beat thousands on the admissions exams to gain entry . Only the brightest get in. The Voke Schools are known as SENAI short for Serviço de Ensino Nacional da Indústria . They are all over the state and the country. You want to become a plumber , electrician , machinist , tool & die maker , programmer , there is your place to go. And to booth , the town of Sao Jose dos Campos , has the Higher School equivalent to a Tecnhical Instituto known as Escola Técnica Estadual Everardo Passos , or shortly ETEC. They used to be ETIs , or Escola Técnica Industrial, same purpose , different acronym. Also free . The irony of it all, it took a Military Dictatorship Regime , harbored by the CIA and the State Department , to get Embraer going , to provide the orders, the backing , the infra structure. The initial orders were no match to Boeing l The old turbo props then come to mind , the Bandeirantes, a regional airplane to locales that could not feature real airport bring us back to those heady days. And the Xavantes, a training and recoignissance two seater with a likeness to WWII fighter jets. . They still can’t make a jet fighter worth a lick , but then again , Brazil is not on continuous warpath. The Brazilian Air Forces buys its jets from France and Sweden, and that is just fine. So the focus has always been on smaller single commercial airplanes to haul people on regional hubs . And the best part is , Embraer did not get swallowed by Boeing , a last minute scuffle a few years back allowed Embraer to remain autonomous and charter its own course , some sixty years in the making. Going to the fringes , cutting deals too insignificant to the larger airframe makers, avoiding to buy in into embargoes.
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