In order to pay tribute to the first Slovenian flight pioneer and airplane constructor, Edvard Rusjan (1886-1911), our friends from Slovenia visited us at the beginning of July. Except finding mutually great company for a hang out, the education about this great flight pioneer could not be left out.<\/p>\n
In his youth age, Edvard Rusjan was interested in cycling, and later in aviation. With his friend and eminent photographer, Mihajlo Mer\u0107ep, a Serb from Zagreb, he went to Paris in 1910 and bought a 50-horsepower Gn\u00f4me engine. Upon their return, this duo constructed a single-winged “Mer\u0107ep-Rusjan”. After testing in Zagreb and several successful flights, they headed to Belgrade to show off their aircraft.<\/p>\n
Rusjan took off from Kalemegdan Fortress on January 9th<\/sup> 1911, where were assembled lots of local population as spectators, eager for attractions. He started in the direction of Top\u010dider, then he made a turn in front of the railway bridge and returned to the lower town. Due to the strong ko\u0161ava<\/em> (southeastern wind) which blew tirelessly in those days, one wing fell off and the aircraft started to sink sharply until it crashed on the bank of the river Sava. Edvard did not survive his fall and after 7 minutes he died from the injuries he suffered on that occasion.<\/p>\n Considering that Edvard Rusjan was an extremely respected man in Serbia, famous Serbian writer Branislav Nu\u0161i\u0107 gave a farewell speech in his honor from the balcony of the Moskva Hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In order to pay tribute to the first Slovenian flight pioneer and airplane constructor, Edvard Rusjan (1886-1911), our friends from Slovenia visited us at the beginning of July. Except finding mutually great company for a hang out, the education about this great flight pioneer could not be left out. In his youth age, Edvard Rusjan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airportvojka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airportvojka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airportvojka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airportvojka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airportvojka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/airportvojka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/airportvojka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airportvojka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airportvojka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airportvojka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airportvojka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}