Prva konvencija za međunarodni vazdušni saobraćaj u vreme mira doneta je 13. oktobra 1919. u Parizu, a Kraljevina SHS je bila među prvih deset potpisnica ovog značajnog akta
The first Convention on international air traffic during peacetime was adopted on 13 th October 1919 in Paris, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes was among the first ten countries to sign this act
I t was long speculated who the first Serb to fly a plane was. It was assumed that this would have been one of the officers who flew over the Banjica Field near Belgrade in De- cember 1910. It was confirmed relatively recently, however, that the first Serb to soar through the air on a plane, earlier that same year, in mid-April, was none oth- er than Serbian Crown-Prince Al- eksandar Karađorđević, the future king of Yugoslavia. During a visit to France, the prince accepted an offer from one of the most famous aviators of the time, Count de Lam- bert (who conducted a sensational flight over the Eiffel Tower), to fly in the “Flyer No. 1” plane, which was one of the planes constructed and piloted by the Wright broth- ers. Although the circuit they made around the airfield covered only a few kilometres, it was enough for the prince to impress the world public. e then European press re- ported, among other things, that: “Serbian Prince Alexander, who is currently residing in Paris, can boast of being the first future rul- er to take a flight in an aeroplane. Airships (Zeppelins) have already been boarded by a lot of power- ful people, but no single member of any other royal family has en- trusted their life to these unstable and uncertain aeroplanes”. Crown-Prince Aleksandar took another historic flight in 1915, when, as the supreme command- er of the Serbian Army, he visited the airport in Banjica, which from April of that year had been oper- ated by a French aeroplane squad- ron. e Prince first inspected the squadron and then, at his own re- quest, flew in a Farman plane as a scout alongside Captain Lujo Polana. e flight lasted 30 min- utes, but later, as king, Aleksan- dar would throughout his life give tremendous support to the devel- opment of civil and military avia- tion in Yugoslavia.
ALEKSANDAR I KARAĐORĐEVIĆ The first Serb to fly
During a visit to France, the prince accepted an offer from one of the most famous aviators of the time, Count de Lambert, to fly in the “Flyer No. 1”, a plane constructed and piloted by the Wright brothers
Bio je vrhovni komandant srpske
vojske, koju je pobedonosno vodio sve do proboja Solunskog fronta He was the supreme commander of the Serbian army, which he led victoriously until the breakthrough at the Thessaloniki Front
Ko je bio Aleksandar Prvi Karađorđević? Rođen je na Cetinju 16. decembra 1888. Njegov deda po majci bio je crnogorski kralj Nikola Prvi Petrović, a baba kraljica Milena. Detinjstvo je proveo u Crnoj Gori, a osnovnu školu završio je u Ženevi. Školovanje je nastavio u vojnoj školi u Sankt Peterburgu, a potom u Beogradu, po dolasku kralja Petra Prvog na srpski presto 1903. godine. Preokret u životu mladog princa na- stupio je 1909, kada se njegov brat, princ Đorđe, odrekao prestola. Kao zapovednik Prve ar- mije upisao je tokom balkanskih ratova brojne pobede. Kao regent bio je vrhovni komandant srpske vojske, koju je pobedonosno vodio sve do proboja Solunskog fronta, konačne pobede i proglašenja Kraljevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca 1918. Posle smrti oca postao je kralj 1921. go- dine i vladar potonje Kraljevine Jugoslavije sve do atentata u Marselju, oktobra 1934. WHO WAS ALEKSANDAR I KARAĐORĐEVIĆ? Born in Cetinje, Montenegro, on 16th December 1888, his maternal grandfather was Montenegrin King Nikola I Petrović, while his grandmother was Queen Milena. He spent his childhood in Montenegro and completed primary school in Geneva. Aleksandar continued his further schooling at a military school in St. Petersburg, and then in Belgrade, until the arrival of King Petar I on the throne of Serbia in 1903. The turning point in the life of the young prince occurred in 1909, when his older brother, Prince Đorđe, abdicated. As a commander of the First Army of Serbia, he recorded numerous victories during the Balkan wars, and as regent he was the supreme commander of the Serbian army, which he led victoriously until the breakthrough at the Thessaloniki Front, the final victory and the proclamation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918. After the death of his father, he became king in 1921, and ruler of the subsequent Kingdom of Yugoslavia until his October 1934 assassination in Marseilles.
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