Brazil, an emerging economic powerhouse, has been steadily developing its aerospace industry since it established Embraer in 1969. Over the years, Embraer established itself as a serious player in the commercial aviation sector where they make regional airliners and business jets.
They also build some military hardware such as the EMB-314 Super Tucano turboprop counterinsurgency aircraft and they had a hand in the Italian-Brazilian AMX light attack jet. But in 2006 the company launched one of its most ambitious projects to date--the KC-390 tanker-transport. The aircraft, the largest Embraer has ever built, is expected to take to the air for the first time in 2014 and enter service two years later in 2016.
In this video, company engineers discuss wind tunnel testing their design.
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