HOORAY FOR OUR....... HERO !!!! Aurel Vlaicu (1882-1913) Airplane constructor and pilot, a graduate of Polytechnic school in Munich, Aurel Vlaicu built his first glider in 1909 and then later on, in 1910 , he flew an airplane several meters up in the air...
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HOORAY FOR OUR....... HERO !!!! Aurel Vlaicu (1882-1913) Airplane constructor and pilot, a graduate of Polytechnic school in Munich, Aurel Vlaicu built his first glider in 1909 and then later on, in 1910 , he flew an airplane several meters up in the air and over a distance of four kilometres in Bucharest. A second airplane Vlaicu II was built afterwards capable of flying at an altitude of 1000 meters and at a speed of 90km/h. In 1912 his airplane aroused interest at the Vienna Air Show , where he competed against other aviators of the day, including Roland Garros. He dies on 13 September 1913, while attempting to cross in flight the Carpathians for the first time. Vlaicu did not finish Vlaicu III, his entirely metal- made airplane , a revolutionary idea which would come to life later on. A former student of the school of Drastic Kocsaárdi Calvinist Kun, who in 1919 was named "High Aurel Vlaicu", taking the Baccalaureate at Sibiu in 1902. He continued his studies engineering at the Tec
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