
Today, August 13, 2025, Romania mourns the loss of a remarkable figure in military and aviation medicine: Major General (Retd.) Medical Doctor, Professor Marian Macri, PhD, former Head of the Medical Directorate within the Ministry of National Defense and former Commander of the National Institute of Aeronautical and Space Medicine “Dr. Gen. Av. Victor Anastasiu,” who has passed away.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the pursuits for inventing flying machines heavier than air increased in order to fulfill the millenary dream of mankind – to conquer the airspace.



