NASLEĐE / HERITAGE 1926. HANGAR I BETONSKE KONSTRUKCIJE MILUTINA MILANKOVIĆA THE HANGARS AND OTHER CONCRETE STRUCTURES OF MILUTIN MILANKOVIĆ
UPRKOS SVIM VAŽNIM ČINJENICAMA, JEDNA JE posebno izdvojila Međunarodno vazdušno pristanište Beograd , zvanično otvoreno 1927. godine. Početkom 1926. godine projektovanje hangara i ostalih betonskih konstrukcija dobio je kao zadatak inženjer Milutin Milan- ković, jedan od najpoznatijih srpskih i svetskih naučnika. Bio je prvi Srbin koji je stekao diplomu građevinskog in- ženjera, a takođe i naš prvi doktor građevinskih nauka. U to vreme armirani beton je bio nov građevinski mate- rijal i Milanković je bio među prvim stručnjacima koji su uveli matematičko modelovanje. Tek otvaranjem ovog prestoničkog aerodroma Kra- ljevina SHS je u punom kapacitetu ispunila obavezu preuzetu 1919. godine potpisivanjem Konvencije o me- đunarodnom vazdušnom saobraćaju, a Beograd je mo- gao u potpunosti da iskoristi svoj povoljan položaj na vazdušnim raskrsnicama sveta. Raspolagao je sa četi- ri travnate poletno-sletne staze, sa kojih od 1928. po- leću i avioni prve domaće avio-kompanije Aeroput . Na njemu je 1931. godine izgrađena moderna pristaniš- na zgrada, a 1936. ugrađena je i oprema za sletanje pri slaboj vidljivosti. Samo jedan deo Milankovićevog hangara ostao je da stoji na mestu gde je otvoren Erport siti (Airport Ci- ty). Tamo gde su nekada rolali avioni, danas su parkira- ni automobili, ali je taj deo hangara devedesetih godina 20. veka stavljen pod zaštitu države kao kulturno dobro. Da svedoči o prošlim vremenima, o znanju i napretku, o genijalnosti Milutina Milankovića.
DESPITE ALL THE MANY IMPORTANT FACTS WHEN IT comes to the first Belgrade airport, there is one that sets itself apart. That is the fact that the job of de- signing the hangars and other concrete structures in ear- ly 1926 was assigned to engineer Milutin Milanković, one of the most famous Serbian scientists around the world. He was the first Serb to earn a degree in civil engineer- ing, and also the country’s first doctor of construction sci- ence. At the time of the project, reinforced concrete was a new construction material and Milanković was among the first experts to introduce mathematical modelling. It was only with the opening of the capital's airport that the then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes fully sa- tisfied the obligation it had taken on with the 1919 signing of the Convention on International Air Traffic, while Belgra- de was able to take full advantage of its favourable position at a world aviation crossroads. It had four grass runways and the aircraft of the first domestic airline, Aeroput, began de- parting from the new airport as of February 1928. A modern terminal building was built there in 1931. Then, in 1936, equ- ipment was installed to enable landing under conditions of poor visibility. Only one of the Milanković hangars remains standing, on the site of today’s Airport City Belgrade business park. Cars are now parked where planes once rolled, but the se- ction with the hangar was placed under state protection as a monument of culture in the 1990s and stands as a testa- ment to bygone times, knowledge and progress, and the genius of Milanković.
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