Почетак наставе ваздухопловства на Техничком факултету у Београду
The Beginning of Teaching of Aviation at the Technical Faculty in Belgrade

Summary/Abstract: As a result of the intensive development of aviation, air forces, aviation techniques, and aviation industries after the First World War in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Technical Faculty of the Belgrade University of Belgrade introduced training in aviation techniques. The first aviation courses and programs of instruction began, after a competition involving various instructor and aviation industry representatives, during the 1930s. The 1935 Statute on technical faculties established an aviation department and a course of instruction. Instructors were hired in 1937 and 1938 and began teaching their courses the same year. World War II interrupted aviation training and it was continued after 1945 with frequent organizational changes, the introduction of new subjects, and an increase in the overall number of lecturers and students. Beginning in 1948, instruction was given at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Technical Faculty, and later at the autonomous Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The development of aviation education continued, as it had before the war, in close connection with the aviation industry and military aviation. Aviation instructors who were there from the beginning and who remained active after the war (Sima Milutinović, Dušan Stankov, Miroslav Nenadović, and Slobodan Dobrosavljević), as well by those which did not remain after 1945 (Dušan Lučić, Miloš Martić, and Milan Pajević), made significant contributions to the development of aviation training and education.

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