* 1910 – Aurel Vlaicu pilots a A. Vlaicu nr.

An extension of Line M2 of the Bucharest Metro to Aurel Vlaicu International, which will link it to the Main Train Station and the larger Henri Coandă International Airport, was approved in June 2006 and is currently in its planning stage.

It was named after Aurel Vlaicu, a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot.

The city administers seven villages: Angofa, Aurel Vlaicu, Hetiur, Rora, Şoromiclea, Venchi and Viilor.

Airbus A318 " Aurel Vlaicu ", the first aircraft painted in the current colour scheme

Bordering on Băneasa Forest, Băneasa has the Aurel Vlaicu International Airport, used mainly by low-cost carriers, and is home to Zoo Băneasa.

In the history of flight, Traian Vuia and Aurel Vlaicu built and flew some of the earliest successful aircraft, while Henri Coandă discovered the Coandă effect of fluidics.

Targoviste Municipality is located near the capital of Romania, at a distance of 80 km Otopeni International Airport Henri Coanda, along with the smaller Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu.

Aurel Vlaicu at the controls of Vlaicu II airplane

Aurel Vlaicu (; November 19, 1882 – September 13, 1913 ) was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot.

Aurel Vlaicu was born in the village of Binţinţi ( now Aurel Vlaicu ) near Geoagiu, Transylvania.

He attended Calvinist High School in Orăştie ( renamed " Liceul Aurel Vlaicu " in his honour in 1919 ) and took his Baccalaureate in Sibiu in 1902.

II model, built in 1911, Aurel Vlaicu won several prizes summing 7, 500 Austro-Hungarian krone ( for precise landing, projectile throwing and tight flying around a pole ) in 1912 at Aspern Air Show near Vienna, where he competed against 42 other aviators of the day, including Roland Garros.

Aurel Vlaicu died on September 13, 1913 near Câmpina while attempting to be the first to cross in flight the Carpathian Mountains in his aged Vlaicu II airplane.

During his short career Aurel Vlaicu built three original, arrow-shaped airplanes.

The second largest airport in Romania Aurel Vlaicu International Airport, and a YR-ASA registered TAROM Airbus A318-111 are named after him.

A museum was established in his home village, now named Aurel Vlaicu.

Aurel Vlaicu on the 50 Romanian leu | Romanian lei bill

In terms of traffic, it is the fourth airport in Romania, after Bucharest Henri Coandă, Bucharest Aurel Vlaicu International Airport and Timişoara.

* Aurel Vlaicu International Airport is situated only 8 km north of the Bucharest city center and is accessible by RATB buses 131, 335 and Airport Express 780 and 783, RATB tramway 5 and taxi.

An extension of Line M2 of the Bucharest Metro to Aurel Vlaicu International, which will link it to the Main Train Station and the larger Henri Coandă International Airport, was approved in June 2006 and is currently in its planning stage.

Its main hub is at Aurel Vlaicu International Airport in Bucharest.

* Jaro International-hub at " Aurel Vlaicu " International Airport, Bucharest

The nearest airports are Henri Coandă International Airport, Otopeni ( 30 km away ), and Aurel Vlaicu International Airport ( 25 km away ).

Timişoara " Traian Vuia " International ( also known as Giarmata Airport ) is Romania's third largest airport in terms of air traffic, after Bucharest Henri Coandă and Bucharest Aurel Vlaicu Airport and the main air transportation hub for the western part of Romania.

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Bucharest Aurel Vlaicu Airport ( largely known as Băneasa Airport or Bucharest City Airport ) is located in Băneasa district, north of Bucharest, Romania.

Photograph of Aurel Stein's grave marker in Kabul He died in Kabul on October 26, 1943 and is buried in Kabul's British Cemetery.

* The Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein in the Mogao Caves in China ; it is " the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book ".

* The Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves, near Dunhuang in China ; it is " the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book ".

The most commonly accepted opinion about the location is (), east of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq – suggested by Sir Aurel Stein in 1938 ( see his Limes Report, pp. 127 – 1 )

In the video games, DotA and Dota 2, the hero Gyrocopter is named Aurel after Aurel Vlaicu.

The earliest evidence showing the presence of Jews in China is from the beginning of the eighth century: a business letter written in the Judeo-Persian language, discovered by Marc Aurel Stein.

Although the translation was not published at that date, the letter that Aurel A. Mureşianu edited later in the Gazette of books, no 1, in 1934 is still considered „ the first publishing attempt “ of T. Maiorescu and it was republished under the same title.

The current chief of the Romanian Navy, succeeding Vice Admiral Dorin Dănilă on 3 July 2010, is Vice Admiral Aurel Popa.

Ioan Aurel Pop argues that the Litovoi mentioned in the diploma of 1247 was not identical to the Litovoi whose death is described in the letter of grant of 1285, and the latter was probably the former ’ s successor.

All information regarding his life has to be deduced from his own writing, a major scholar of which is Mark Aurel Stein.

It was found in 1907 by the archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein in Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, and is now in the British Museum.

Aurel Vlaicu is a metro station in the north of Bucharest, named after the Romanian aeroplane constructor and pioneer aviator, Aurel Vlaicu.