Aeronautics and Astronautics

Traian Vuia (en)

Traian Vuia, was a Romanian aeronautical pioneer, from Surducul-Mic, then a small village in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  Being scientifically minded, he attended the School of Mechanics at the Polytechnic University in Budapest.  Due to a lack of money, soon he...

Traian Vuia Story

Traian Vuia Story

  Traian Vuia Traian Vuia (also known as Trajan Vuia) was a Romanian inventor and pioneer in the aviation field. He is credited with the achievement of successfully building, thus demonstrating, that a flying apparatus could rise into the air using only its...

Traian Vuia Story

Traian Vuia Story

Traian Vuia Traian Vuia (also known as Trajan Vuia) was a Romanian inventor and pioneer in the aviation field. He is credited with the achievement of successfully building, thus demonstrating, that a flying apparatus could rise into the air using only its engine and...

IAR American

IAR American

  On 18 November 2017 in the Acad. Virgiliu Constantinescu amphitheater, professors and students of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering met Eng. Pilot Gabriel Iancic, President of the IAR AMERICAN organization and Eng. Sorin Ploscaru, aircraft designer. IAR...

Smaranda Brăescu

Where and When Smaranda Brăescu was born? She was born in the village of Hânţeşti, Buciumeni commune, in the present-day Galați County. It is very vague, many say on May 21, 1897, but as an example, on her student grades book it is mentioned  May 23, 1904. We...