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Street name: Strada Aurel Vlaicu
Category: Person
Category in detail: Engineer, inventor, pilot
Description: Aurel Vlaicu was a Romanian engineer inventor airplane constructor and early pilot. In 1908 he built his first glider than in 1909 he built his first plane (Vlaicu 1). The plane flew without further interventions. In 1912 he built his second plane and tried to flew over the Carpathian Mountains but he crashed due to a heart-attack
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City: Cluj-Napoca
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