Aurel Vlaicu., 100 years ago...

Thursday 17th at the Afi Mall Cotroceni a celeb. of Vlaicu's first flight.
Not many know that the flight took place from the exact place where the Mall stands today.
THe Chief Ing. of the MAll ,who is a aviation fan,is org. the event.
All are welcome.

How it was at this action? What happened?

Sorry for the late reply....


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The army and the church took over (like usual).
What was strange was that Vlaicu's relative (the one who was present at the last Av.Day) wasn't present.


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There was a replica of Vlaicu's plane,inside the Mall,but I have no photos of it.


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The tall guy,who stands in the back-right,white shirt and sun glasses ,is Mr .S. Shai.
He was the "head" of this ceremony,after finding the marble plate that mentioned Vlaicu's flight from the same place where Afi MAll stands.
What is somehow sad,is the fact that a total stranger was more interested in the romanian heritage,then "others".
Anyhow,it went just fine,all were pleased (exept maybee from the puppet guards ,who had to stay in the burning sun.


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This post has been edited by C-2 on June 20, 2010 11:35 am

Thanks for the info and for the photos!

What a shame that a foreigner had to have the initiative to celebrate this event and the romanians did nothing, only when they were pushed from the back! Congratulations for that foreign gentleman and shame to romanians. There is no excuse for them for doing nothing.

ARPIA had the initiative...

ARPIA means Asociatia Romana pt Propaganda si Istoria Aviatiei

I was talking about the comemorative plate on the entrance of the Mall.
Gen. Dobran was also present at the event.
Unfortunatly he was guarded so well,that I even couldn't see him.

An old romanian/international proverb says: "After the BAttle ,there are many heroes".

Then, this is good and ... congratulations!

Now I see that the chief ing. of the mall was the organiser. ARPIA says that she had the initiative. What is the truth?

THe Mall is a private property.
Unless invited,no one could make the ceremony there.
I'm sure that ARPIA wanted to comemorate this event.
I quess there was a joinventure.....

JUst n front of the MAll,ther's a military unit.
MAny army trucks are there.
To tell the truth,no one knows is Vlaicu flew exactly from the place where the MAll stands,or 10 m on the right or on th left.
THe army could make the comemoration very well in his oun yard if wanted....

This post has been edited by C-2 on June 22, 2010 08:52 pm

The Army commemorated at the Boboc Air Base for three days (15-17 June). Well, it seems no one important from political scene was interested these days to celebrate a century of military aviation in Romania.

Does it matter?
What should be celebrated, praised and encouraged is the fact that such events take place.
Congratulations to everyone involved!
Radu

Yes, it does matter.

It does matter because we romanians should be the one who remember that we must not to forget our forefathers, not the foreigners to come and remind us about our own history. Of course it is ok when this kind of events are celebrated, but let me wonder what would happened if that foreign gentleman would not read about the event and he didnt spoke it out in order to organise something. Almost sure romanians would do nothing.

So, it does matter and it does matter a lot. Is the celebration of the first flight of Wright brothers organised by foreigners in the USA? No. It is organised by americans....

In conclusion, if the event was initiated by romanians it is ok. If not, it is not ok, even if eventually all went well. Hope one got the idea.