page_title: Traian Vuia
section_title: Later career
hierarchical_section_title: Traian Vuia / Later career
caption_attribution_description: English: Traian Vuia helicopter 1918
context_page_description: Traian Vuia or Trajan Vuia was a Romanian inventor and aviation pioneer who designed, built and tested the first tractor monoplane. He was the first to demonstrate that a flying machine could rise into the air by running on wheels on an ordinary road. He is credited with a powered hop of 11 m made on March 18, 1906, and he later claimed a powered hop of 24 m. Though unsuccessful in sustained flight, Vuia's invention influenced Louis Blériot in designing monoplanes. Later, Vuia also designed helicopters.
  A French citizen from 1918, Vuia led the Romanians of France in the Resistance during World War II. He returned to Romania just before his death in 1950.
context_section_description: Between 1918 and 1921 Vuia built two experimental helicopters on the Juvisy and Issy-les-Moulineaux aerodromes.
  He is buried at the Bellu cemetery in Bucharest, Romania.
caption: Vuia helicopter 1918
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