Professor Ion Stroescu pioneer of aeronautics and particularly of experimental aerodynamics

Abstract

I met Professor Ion Stroescu in the '50s, when, immediately after graduation, I was hired as a trainee researcher (together with my colleagues Stefan Savulescu, Alexe Marinescu, Nicolae Camarasescu and Dinu Caprita) by Academician Professor Elie Carafoli, at that time director of the newly founded Institute of Applied Mechanics of the Romanian Academy. As the institute had not yet been assigned a building, it was settled that provisionally its activity would be carried out within the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest in Polizu Street premises, together with the aviation department which was also headed by Academician Carafoli.