Casimiro Montenegro Filho (29 October 1904—26 February 2000) was a Brazilian army and air force officer. He reached the rank of
Marechal-do-ar, the highest rank of the
Brazilian Air Force
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rank system.
Born in
Fortaleza
Fortaleza (, locally , Portuguese for ''Fortress'') is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It belongs to the Metropolitan mesoregion of Fortaleza and microregion of Fortaleza. It is Brazil's 5th largest city and the t ...
, Montenegro joined
Realengo
Realengo is a neighborhood in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The lower and middle-class neighborhood is between the Mendanha and Pedra Branca mountains.CNN Wire Staff.Hero officer kept Brazilian school massacre from being even worse" ...
Military School in 1923, and in 1928 became an
Aspirant in the Brazilian army's first class of aviators for its new Military Aviation Arm. He later served under
Eduardo Gomes
Air Marshal Eduardo Gomes (20 September 1896 – 13 June 1981) was a Brazilian politician and military figure. He was born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.
Gomes joined the army when he started his course at the Realengo Military Sch ...
, another future
Marshal of the Air.
In 1943, while a
lieutenant-colonel
Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colonel. ...
, he proposed the creation of the ''
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
The ''Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica'' (ITA; en, Aeronautics Institute of Technology) is an institution of higher education maintained by the Brazilian Air Force and is located in São José dos Campos, Brazil. ITA is consistently ran ...
- ITA'' (Aeronautical Technology Institute) - and the ''Centro Técnico de Aeronáutica - CTA'' (Aeronautics Technical Center), later ''Centro Técnico Aeroespacial - CTA'' (Aerospace Technical Center) and ''Comando-Geral de Tecnologia Aeroespacial - CTA'' (
Brazilian General Command for Aerospace Technology
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), nowadays the
''Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia Aeroespacial - DCTA'' (Department of Aerospace Science and Technology).
Two years later, that proposal was translated into a plan,
with the collaboration of
MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the mo ...
Professor
Richard Harbert Smith, who became, in the sequence, the first
rector
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*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of
ITA. Montenegro died in
Petrópolis
Petrópolis (; ), also known as The Imperial City, is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the Southeast Region, Brazil, Southeast Region of Brazil. It is located in the state of Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro, northeast of the ci ...
at the age of 95.
References
External links
Casimiro Montenegro Filho Foundation
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CTA site.
1904 births
2000 deaths
Brazilian Air Force generals
People from Fortaleza
Marshals of the air force
Brazilian educators
Recipients of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
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