reflection task 1b VECİHİ HÜRKUŞ

This week, I will introduce you Vecihi HÜRKUŞ who deserves much more admiration, but he faced many obligations in spite of his successes. I want to unearth his achievements and inventions. First of all, Vecihi HÜRKUŞ was born on 6th January 1896 in İstanbul and died on 16th July 1969 in GATA. His life is full of misfortunes besides to achievements. He joint WW1 and returned the İstanbul Yeşiköy when he was injured, then he reconnaissanced flights, also shut down a Russian airplane during one of these flights, so he is the first Turkish to shoot down an enemy airplane. He was given three İstiklal Madalyası for his successes in the war, and TBMM gave Taktirname for three times. After the war, he designed and created a few aircrafts inspite of many difficulties. He rented a lumber mill and produced his first airplane in there. Afterwards, on 28th January 1925, he took off the plane which he named as    VECİHİ K-VI. However, rather than a prize, a punishment was waiting for him. This is because there was no one who understood aviation, so he got off the ground without any permission and was punished because of that. Then, he left from military aviation and went on designing and inventing aircrafts. Moreover, he founded the first Turkish Civil Aeronautics School named as Vecihi Sivil Tayyare Mektebi. In this school, he brought up 12 pilots including the first Turkish female pilot Bedriye Gökmen. In 1937, Turkish Aeronautical Assocation sent him an engineering school in Germany fot taking engineering education. After two years, he came back after graduating, but he could not receive the licence of aircraft engineer for the reason that it was impossible to become engineer in two years. In 1954, he founded Hürkuş Airlines, but the company was precluded because of crashes, hijacks and sabotages. I am sure that he would want to be a successful aircraft engineer, which he managed it, and introduce Turkey to all the world as a pearl in the field of aero. In my opinion, he would succeed in these purposes.