Dušan Stankov
| Dušan Stankov | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 30, 1900 Vršac, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy |
| Died | March 4, 1983 Beograd, Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Education | University of Belgrade |
| Years active | 1927–1969 |
Dušan Stankov/(Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Станков) (30 April 1900, Vršac- 4 March 1983, Belgrade), was an engineer and professor at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of the Mechanical Engineering, a Yugoslav aircraft constructor, who contributed greatly to developing the studies at the faculty and the Faculty itself as well as to the development of the Yugoslav Air Force in general.
Dušan Stankov was born on 30 April 1900 in Vrsac (Banat, Vojvodina) where he finished elementary school and comprehensive high school. He graduated from the Faculty of Technology, Belgrade University in 1924, and died on 4 March 1983, as a retired professor of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade University.
Following his graduation from university, and after serving conscript duty, engineer Stankov began working in Ikarus factory in Zemun in September 1927 as an engineer until 1931. In that period he spent several months working on the construction and production of aircraft in Ikarus and in the Novi Sad-based Ikarus factory. At the time, seaplanes of domestic constructors for the purposes of Yugoslav navy air force were manufactured at the Novi Sad-based Ikarus factory. The Ikarus factory engaged engineers Rudolf Fizir and Josef Mickl who had long and vast experience in building aircraft. These engineers were outstanding in building aircraft; however, they lacked training in calculating constructions, so they were assigned a young engineer, D. Stankov who excelled in static mechanics, and who did all calculations in static mechanics of all the planes built by his senior colleagues. Based on these calculations these seaplanes were granted their sailing licenses.
From April 1931 to April 1933, engineer Dusan Stankov worked in the Air Force Command in Zemun. As of April 1933 he transferred from the Air Force Command into the Zemun-based company Zmaj as a technical manager of this aircraft factory, staying on this post until the capitulation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the April War 1941. These years are considered to be Stankov’s most prolific period in his career. Besides working on aircraft construction, whether he liked it or not, as a technical director he had to deal with the problems in aircraft production, which were not so trivial. Namely, the machine industry in Yugoslavia was poorly developed then, so the manufacturers were left to their own devices to solve these problems. On the other hand, this proved to be a very fertile soil for future development of experts of all profiles. The Yugoslav aviation industry between two world wars was a sort of a seminary of superb experts in all profiles and specializations. Furthermore, during the war, Dusan Stankov was a reader at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Technology in Belgrade for the subject Static Mechanics of Aircraft.
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