Profesorul Alexandru Matei şi fascinaţia zborului fără motor

Abstract

Professor at the Department of “Drawing and Descriptive Geometry” within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Iasi starting with 1942, Alexandru Matei was a passionate of the engineless flight, a pioneer of the school of gliding of Iasi which he served arduously all his life. Created in 1938, “The School of Engineless Flight” of Iasi temporarily interrupted its activity in 1940 and 1943 because of the war. The activity of the school was officially resumed under the coordination of engineer Alexandru Matei, for the third time, on the 8th of May 1948, functioning wih “Gh. Asachi” Polytechnics.