by Octavian Thor Pleter | Jun 29, 2017 | News
The 28th Edition of the International Laser Radar Conference was organized in Bucharest, for the first time in an East-European country, by INOE together with the University Politehnica of Bucharest. A series of important personalities attended and visited our...
by Octavian Thor Pleter | Jun 26, 2017 | Aviation and Astronautics, Events, News
The Romanian cosmonaut Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu made an important statement on NEO (Near Earth Objects) at the 59th session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, demanding the UN General Assembly to declare 30 June as International Asteroid Day to...
by Octavian Thor Pleter | Jun 25, 2017 | Aviation and Astronautics
These testimonials of my fellow avionics engineers regard the time span 1986-1992 and seem to be extracted from Zoshchenko. They are true stories of life of aviation engineers of that time, illustrating how high level engineering was done in a country, which...
by Octavian Thor Pleter | Jun 15, 2017 | Events
Exercise NOBLE JUMP 2017 – NATO RF and VJTF took place at Cincu, in Romania. More than 4,000 troops have been involved (out of which 2,000 dispatched to Romania within days) from US, UK, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Albania. The fictitious scenario...
by Octavian Thor Pleter | Jun 4, 2017 | Alumni, Aviation and Astronautics
”85 years back, on 22 July 1918, an outstanding man was born, who passed away on 8 February 1981, but will live in our memory and in the history of the Romanian aviation through the creation of the IS gliders. After graduation in 1941 of the Aviation Section of...
