Traian Vuia - World's First Flyer
All the people who know as much history as i know Chinese, tried (and succeeded) in hiding the real historycal truth from the history books for so long, and they will probably keep on having success for the next one or two centuries. That's because it's far easier for the arogant West to say that the Wright brothers first took-off from Earth, instead of admitting that Traian Vuia did it long before their time.
Romania. Such a small country. Such a Global Strategic position on Earth. Among the last 3,000yrs, many wars happened around this area because in each diffrent century of history, one or more big empires of the time wanted this theritorry, these mountains, these waters, this land and these skilled people and their work. As they never succeeded to conquer them completley, among the centuries, they managed tough to steal the work that has been done here. As the story goes, if you can't do it, then steal it from the neighbour and say it's yours.
They say that the first men who flew were the Wright Brothers. How wrong, it was Traian Vuia, just a few years before the americans. Of course, nobody except Romania and France addmits that.
They say some british guy invented the jet engine in 1923. How wrong again. It was the romanian Henry Coanda, in 1910.
They say Werner von Braun invented the V-1, the V-2, F86 Saber and the american Loonar and Mars program. How wrong, because all his data was stolen from his teacher who taught him everything, a romanian living in a city dating thoundands of years ago, called Sighisoara, right here in my Mures (MS) district in Transylvania.
...and the beat goes on
It's so easy for this and the next century's empires, US, NATO and Western Europe to perform mass disinformation and to adjust the history on their will due to the modern information warfare capabilities such as Television, Radio, Written Press, the Internet, Satellite technology and Roumer Control. It is to be expected, as during the 1960s, the Soviet Union's influence in Eastern Europe "taught" us that it was some russian who first flew, another russian who inveted the jet engine, another russian to invent the rocket and so forth and so on. As I said before, each century's empire provides the world with its own fake heroes.
But one thing incorporated in this new information warfare global structure is the more or less Freedom of speach of the Internet. With this power, I hope that the truth will always come above the lies and historycal propaganda.
As stated before, there are only two countries who addmit Traian Vuia was the first man ever to get airborne, and Herny Coanda as being the inventor of the jet engine. These two countries are Romania and France. Romania because we were always here and we know what happened as we saw it with our own eyes and as pictures don't lie, and France, because there were French diplomats present on the airfield at Vuia's flight and they made their own pictures too, and because Henry Coanda immigrated to France to try to develop his invention, where, everybody laughed at him of course, because he was told his "cheap little invention can never outperform our strong propeller machines", "so go home and play with your toys, kid". Today, 91 years later, CNN, Discovery Channel, National Geographic and every inhabbitant of this planet is so happy thinking of the times when that british guy, I don't know nor care for his name, invented the jet engine in... 1923, no less than 13 years after Henry Coanda...
The French city of Montesson, recognizing Traian Vuia's contribution to world aviation, (hell, he invented it !) named a street in honour of his name and also unvealed a board with his name where it stays written the fact that he was the first man ever to take off from our planet in controlled flight.
In that day of March the 18th, 2000, the historycal truth had a little victory in the battle with misinformation and Western arogance.
©1999, Sorin
A Crâsmarelu
march 2000
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