{"id":190408,"date":"2025-10-16T15:53:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=190408"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:53:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:53:39","slug":"father-of-serbian-aviation-ivan-saric-was-the-first-serb-to-take-flight-in-a-plane-he-built-himself-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/father-of-serbian-aviation-ivan-saric-was-the-first-serb-to-take-flight-in-a-plane-he-built-himself-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"FATHER OF SERBIAN AVIATION: Ivan Sari\u0107 Was the First Serb to Take Flight \u2013 in a Plane He Built Himself! (PHOTO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A strong, unpleasant wind was blowing, but that didn\u2019t stop nearly seven thousand residents of Subotica from gathering that Sunday, October 16, 1910, at the City Hippodrome, in the suburbs of Subotica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All eyes were fixed on a young, thin man and his machine in the middle of the grassy field, tensely awaiting a miracle to unfold before them\u2014one that would go down in history and mark Subotica as one of the cities keeping pace with the technical achievements of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"645\" src=\"http:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Ivan_Saric_with_his_parents_and_sisters_before_1890-1024x645.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Ivan_Saric_with_his_parents_and_sisters_before_1890-1024x645.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Ivan_Saric_with_his_parents_and_sisters_before_1890-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Ivan_Saric_with_his_parents_and_sisters_before_1890-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Ivan_Saric_with_his_parents_and_sisters_before_1890.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ivan Sari\u0107 sa roditeljima i porodicom (levo) i u mladosti (desno) \/ Wikimedia Creative Commons<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is how the Subotica monthly <em>Neven<\/em> reported the event:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Everyone knows that one son of a Bunjevac mother has long been occupied with the idea of flying. He has manually built a flying machine, and for several months has been making attempts. Now he has succeeded in taking off, flying several kilometers through the air in one go. On October 16th, he plans to present himself publicly to the citizens of Subotica. Ivan Sari\u0107 flew on October 16th at an altitude of 30 meters for about 3 km.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">FIND OUT MORE: <\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-serbiantimes-info wp-block-embed-serbiantimes-info\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zy3acop2Yv\"><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/hodocasce-za-decu-leptire-trojica-policajaca-iz-srbije-pesace-kroz-3-drzave-da-pomognu-malisanima-video\/\">HODO\u010cA\u0160\u0106E ZA DECU LEPTIRE: Trojica policajaca iz Srbije pe\u0161a\u010de kroz 3 dr\u017eave da pomognu\u00a0mali\u0161anima! (VIDEO)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#132;HODO\u010cA\u0160\u0106E ZA DECU LEPTIRE: Trojica policajaca iz Srbije pe\u0161a\u010de kroz 3 dr\u017eave da pomognu\u00a0mali\u0161anima! (VIDEO)&#147; &#8212; Serbiantimes.info\" src=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/hodocasce-za-decu-leptire-trojica-policajaca-iz-srbije-pesace-kroz-3-drzave-da-pomognu-malisanima-video\/embed\/#?secret=6zIgg1dzKn#?secret=zy3acop2Yv\" data-secret=\"zy3acop2Yv\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The report was documented with two photographs, but unfortunately, newspapers from that period recorded no further details of the event\u2014except that the crowd shouted &#8220;\u017divio!&#8221;\u2014leaving future researchers the task of piecing together this great event from fragments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is undeniable, however, is that on that windy morning exactly 100 years ago, on the soil of what is today Serbia, a man for the first time lifted off the ground with the help of a flying machine and began to fulfill Icarus\u2019s dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivan Sari\u0107\u2019s flight is considered the beginning of Serbian aviation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivan Sari\u0107 (1876\u20131966) was ahead of his time in many ways\u2014and quite literally ahead of his contemporaries. His passion was speed: though employed as a civil servant, Sari\u0107 first dedicated himself to cycling, then to motorcycle racing, followed by automobile competitions. In every sport, he won medals at competitions across the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to which Subotica then belonged, and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"515\" src=\"http:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Saric1AirplaneMuseumYUAF-1024x515.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Saric1AirplaneMuseumYUAF-1024x515.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Saric1AirplaneMuseumYUAF-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Saric1AirplaneMuseumYUAF-768x387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Saric1AirplaneMuseumYUAF.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Avion Ivan Sari\u0107a u Muzeju vazduhoplovstva \/ Wikimedia Creative Commons<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A car rally took him to Paris in 1909\u2014six years after the Wright brothers\u2019 first flight and one week before the first flight across the English Channel. There, he absorbed the excitement of this new era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"754\" src=\"http:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Ivan_Saric_on_a_bicycle-1024x754.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Ivan_Saric_on_a_bicycle-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Ivan_Saric_on_a_bicycle-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Ivan_Saric_on_a_bicycle-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Ivan_Saric_on_a_bicycle.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ivan Sari\u0107 \/ Wikimedia Creative Commons<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon returning to Subotica, Ivan Sari\u0107 locked himself in the basement of his house on Bra\u0107e Radi\u0107 Street and, using whatever materials were at hand\u2014wood, plywood, fabric, piano wires, according to some sources\u2014built his first airplane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This first flying machine was damaged after its initial \u201ctest flight,\u201d during later landings, so Sari\u0107 went on to construct another plane, known as \u201cSari\u0107-2.\u201d After a few successful attempts, Ivan Sari\u0107 gave up on flying after several years. Perhaps it was the technical demands and construction complexity, or the many problems that accompanied the launches of his two airplanes, that led him to return to motorcycling. 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