Phenomena » Fenomeni | 91 The first Convention on international air traffic during peacetime was adopted on 13th October 1919 in Paris, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes was among the first ten countries to sign this act Prva konvencija za međunarodni vazdušni saobraćaj u vreme mira doneta je 13. oktobra 1919. u Parizu, a Kraljevina SHS je bila među prvih deset potpisnica ovog značajnog akta It was long speculated who the first Serb to fly a plane was. It was assumed that this would have been one of the officers who flew over the Banjica Field near Belgrade in December 1910. It was confirmed relatively recently, however, that the first Serb to soar through the air on a plane, earlier that same year, in mid-April, was none other than Serbian Crown-Prince Aleksandar Karađorđević, the future king of Yugoslavia. During a visit to France, the prince accepted an offer fromone of the most famous aviators of the time, Count de Lambert (who conducted a sensational flight over the Eiffel Tower), to fly in the “Flyer No. 1” plane, which was one of the planes constructed and piloted by the Wright brothers. Although the circuit theymade around the airfield covered only a few kilometres, it was enough for the prince to impress the world public. e then European press reported, among other things, that: “Serbian Prince Alexander, who is currently residing in Paris, can boast of being the first future ruler to take a flight in an aeroplane. Airships (Zeppelins) have already been boarded by a lot of powerful people, but no single member of any other royal family has entrusted their life to these unstable and uncertain aeroplanes”. Crown-Prince Aleksandar took another historic flight in 1915, when, as the supreme commander of the Serbian Army, he visited the airport in Banjica, which from April of that year had been operated by a French aeroplane squadron. e Prince first inspected the squadron and then, at his own request, flew in a Farman plane as a scout alongside Captain Lujo Polana. e flight lasted 30 minutes, but later, as king, Aleksandar would throughout his life give tremendous support to the development of civil and military aviation in Yugoslavia. Ko je bio Aleksandar Prvi Karađorđević? Rođen je na Cetinju 16. decembra 1888. Njegov deda pomajci bio je crnogorski kralj Nikola Prvi Petrović, a baba kraljicaMilena. Detinjstvo je proveo u Crnoj Gori, a osnovnu školu završio je u Ženevi. Školovanje je nastavio u vojnoj školi u Sankt Peterburgu, a potomu Beogradu, po dolasku kralja Petra Prvog na srpski presto 1903. godine. Preokret u životumladog princa nastupio je 1909, kada se njegov brat, princ Đorđe, odrekao prestola. Kao zapovednik Prve armije upisao je tokombalkanskih ratova brojne pobede. Kao regent bio je vrhovni komandant srpske vojske, koju je pobedonosno vodio sve do proboja Solunskog fronta, konačne pobede i proglašenja Kraljevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca 1918. Posle smrti oca postao je kralj 1921. godine i vladar potonje Kraljevine Jugoslavije sve do atentata uMarselju, oktobra 1934. WHOWAS ALEKSANDAR I KARAĐORĐEVIĆ? Born in Cetinje, Montenegro, on 16th December 1888, hismaternal grandfather was Montenegrin King Nikola I Petrović, while his grandmother was QueenMilena. He spent his childhood inMontenegro and completed primary school in Geneva. Aleksandar continued his further schooling at amilitary school in St. Petersburg, and then in Belgrade, until the arrival of King Petar I on the throne of Serbia in 1903. The turning point in the life of the young prince occurred in 1909, when his older brother, Prince Đorđe, abdicated. As a commander of the First Army of Serbia, he recorded numerous victories during the Balkan wars, and as regent he was the supreme commander of the Serbian army, which he led victoriously until the breakthrough at the Thessaloniki Front, the final victory and the proclamation of the Kingdomof Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918. After the death of his father, he became king in 1921, and ruler of the subsequent Kingdomof Yugoslavia until his October 1934 assassination inMarseilles. AL EKSANDAR I KARAĐORĐEV I Ć The first Serb to fly During a visit to France, the prince accepted an offer from one of themost famous aviators of the time, Count de Lambert, to fly in the “Flyer No. 1”, a plane constructed and piloted by theWright brothers Bio je vrhovni komandant srpske vojske, koju je pobedonosno vodio sve do proboja Solunskog fronta He was the supreme commander of the Serbian army, which he led victoriously until the breakthrough at the Thessaloniki Front
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