History
The Romanian scientist Henri Coandă exhibited his first aircraft in 1910, worked in the UK to design aircraft for World War I, and continued to make inventions in a variety of fields. He discovered the Coanda effect of fluidics.
Hermann Oberth was also a native Romanian, born in Sibiu.
Along the 20th century Romania built military aircraft (the IAR-39 and IAR-80 before and during World War II and the IAR-93 and IAR-99 Şoim since the 70s), helicopters (IAR 316, IAR 330 - under Aérospatiale licence) as well as passenger aircraft (ROMBAC 1-11 built under British Aircraft Corporation licence).
The industrial facilities for aircraft building and maintenance are located in Bacǎu (Aerostar), Braşov (Industria Aeronautică Română), Craiova (Avioane Craiova) and Bucharest (Romaero, Turbomecanica).
Dumitru Prunariu is the only Romanian astronaut who participated in a space mission (Soyuz 40 - May 14, 1981).
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