TACHE BRUMARESCU 1872-1937

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES via email from Victor Nitu, 3-21-05      Tache Brumarescu was born in 1872 at Valenii de Munte. During his lifetime he had around 150 inventions, one them being an airplane. His unusual design was named the helicopter-airplane. It was built in 1909. Two years passed before he managed to buy an Gnome-Rhone 50 HP engine and learned to fly an aircraft. The first and only flight made by Columba (the name of his airplane) took place on 27 May 1911 at Bucharest, on the Cotroceni field. During the flight he noticed the airplane was loosing its balance and decided to land, but the sudden maneuver resulted in a crash. The propeller broke and the engine was blocked. He was injured at one leg. The accident marked the end of his aviation experiments. He passed away in 1937 in Bucharest. Source: "Pai tocmai asta e! - Tache Brumarescu" by Cristian Craciunoiu, Modelism International no. 1/2002

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Tache Brumarescu", using the Google search engine, (3-22-05), you will find about seven links, all of them in Romanian. I did find a free Romanian to English translation website, but the results were not very helpful.

Tache Brumarescu passed away in 1937 in Bucharest. Source: "Pai tocmai asta e! - Tache Brumarescu" by Cristian Craciunoiu, Modelism International no. 1/2002 Courtesy of Victor Vitu   If you have any more information on this pioneer aviator please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper

 

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