Aeronautical Technical Institute

The Yugoslav Aeronautical Institute ( serbokroat. Vazduhoplovnotehnički institute / Ваздухопловнотехнички институт ) based in Žarkovo in Belgrade was founded in 1946 and was responsible for the research and development of aircraft in Yugoslavia, similar to the Soviet TsAGI or the German DLR. The Institute was disbanded with the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1992.

History

In Yugoslavia there was before the Second World War, five aircraft manufacturers: the private companies Rogožarski, Icarus, Utva, Zmaj, all in Belgrade and Novi Sad, and the State Airplane Factory in Kraljevo. In most cases, aircraft were produced under the license, including the Breguet 19, Potez 25, Dornier Do 17 or Hawker Hurricane; but there were also self-developed models such as the Ikarus IK -2 or Rogožarski IK - third

During the Second World War, most of these factories were destroyed, only at Zmaj Zemun close operation of the so-called Independent State of Croatia, a modest production of at this time already obsolete aircraft models such as the Fizir FN.

After the Second World War, the Yugoslav government to build up the domestic aviation industry tried again. Unlike the monarchy, however, were in the new communist government nationalized the remains of the above factories and to the State Aircraft Factory ( Fabrika Drzavna Aviona ) summarized. For the operated previously by private companies mostly themselves and on their own account aircraft development a central research and design office was established, the Yugoslav Aeronautical Institute, based in Žarkovo, in which leading domestic aircraft designers from the period before the war, such as Kosta Sivčev or Sima Milutinovic should be made. The Aeronautical Institute was next to the Army Institute in Belgrade and the Marine Institute in Zagreb is one of three military research institutes in Yugoslavia.

Organization

The Institute had ten departments that were responsible for engineering, computer science, aerodynamics, experimental aerodynamics, structure of aircraft, experimental structure, systematics, drive engineering, aerospace, and documentation. It featured last eight wind tunnels, including the T-38, in which objects at flow velocities of Mach numbers up to 3 were experimentally investigate and built in collaboration with companies from Canada and the United States.

International cooperation was also held with Boeing, Douglas Aircraft Company, Airbus, Dassault Aviation, British Aerospace, Flygtekniska försöksanstalten and ONERA.

Among the projects of the Institute that were achieved include, inter alia,

• Ikarus S -49
• Soko Galeb
• Soko J-1 Jastreb
• Soko J -20 Kraguj
• Soko J -22 Orao
• Soko G- 4 Super Galeb
• Utva Lasta

Projects that were abandoned during the development phase, were, inter alia, the Transport Airplane pelican, which did not go into production due to lack of funds, and the fighter Novi Avion, which could not be realized with the disintegration of Yugoslavia.

Resolution of the Institute

The Yugoslav Aeronautical Institute was in 1992, when Yugoslavia disintegrated into several independent states, dissolved. In the same year the Military Technical Institute in Belgrade, Serbia was ( Vojnotehnički institute Srbije ) founded, went over to the parts of the Yugoslav Aviation Technical Institute. Unlike the Yugoslav Aeronautical Institute, the Military Technical Institute for the military research is generally responsible and not only for the aviation industry, as well as the budget goes nowhere near to that of the Yugoslav Aviation Technical Institute zoom.

• Former research facility
• Organization ( Aviation)
• Yugoslavia
• Yugoslav organization