Aurel Vlaicu
Aurel Vlaicu /a.u'rel
'vlaj.ku/ (November 19, 1882 – September 13, 1913) was a Romanian engineer,
inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot.
Aurel Vlaicu was born in Binţinţi (now Aurel Vlaicu), near Orăştie,
Transylvania, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the time. He attended
Calvinist High School in Orăştie (renamed "Liceul Aurel Vlaicu" in his honour in
1919) and took his Baccalaureate in Sibiu in 1902. He furthered his studies at
Technical University of Budapest and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in
Germany, earning his engineer's diploma in 1907.
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