HIGHER EDUCATION IN AIR FORCE: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

Training of civil aviation and military personnel is based on higher education offen by, Air Force Academy, but also the courses Romanian Aviation Academy, and sport aviation. The Romanian aeronautics research set off while the great academies of the world believed that "the problem of flight with a device that weighs more than air can not be resolved and there is only a dream and he did successfully.In terms of aviation higher educational institutions, education is based more on teaching and learning and less or not at all on the research. There weren't made any investments in research, not even in the present days and no support for young aviation enthusiasts is offered. Prospects are, as before, very good. We have, however, the same old dilemma: how to fund research and aviation industry? Does it follow another period of decline? Do we continue the series of missed opportunities? Or accept what the European papers say, that we should try a new road at the long-term sustainable development, the recovery of existing capacity and develop new science and technological progress, the elimination of the standard of living gap with the West, the which supports and accepts resignation of hundreds of years? Europe says that there where is the aviation industry, there is sustainable development.