by George IGNAT | Oct 7, 2017 | Aviation and Astronautics, Events, Partners
On 16 October 2017, a delegation of EUROCONTROL led by Director General Dr. Frank Brenner is visiting the University Politehnica of Bucharest at the invitation of our Rector, Mr. Mihnea Costoiu. At 1 pm in the Senate Room the Cooperation Agreement will be signed...
by George IGNAT | Jul 21, 2017 | Aviation and Astronautics, Events
The 2017 Richey Medal of the Royal Institute of Navigation was awarded to a team of the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. The medal is awarded annually for the best scientific paper published in the previous year in the...
by George IGNAT | Jun 26, 2017 | Aviation and Astronautics, Events
The Romanian cosmonaut Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu made an important statement on NEO (Near Earth Objects) at the 59th session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, demanding the UN General Assembly to declare 30 June as International Asteroid Day to...
by George IGNAT | Jun 25, 2017 | Aviation and Astronautics
These testimonials of my fellow avionics engineers regard the time span 1986-1992 and seem to be extracted from Zoshchenko. They are true stories of life of aviation engineers of that time, illustrating how high level engineering was done in a country, which...
by George IGNAT | Jun 4, 2017 | Alumni, Aviation and Astronautics
”85 years back, on 22 July 1918, an outstanding man was born, who passed away on 8 February 1981, but will live in our memory and in the history of the Romanian aviation through the creation of the IS gliders. After graduation in 1941 of the Aviation Section of...
by George IGNAT | May 31, 2017 | Aviation and Astronautics
French-Romanian Company of Air Navigation (“Compagnie Franco-Roumaine de Navigation Aérienne”) was founded by Aristide Blank, a controversial Romanian banker, using French ex-military pilots, made redundant after the war. The company was located in rue de...
