Dergi Bursa Ekim 2017 - Sayı 45

44 çekmemiş olsa da dünya havacılık tarihinde büyük bir yenilik olan bu buluşla bir Amerikalı ilgilenir. Yıldız, on beş kez denediği buluşunun başına gelenleri Bahattin Adıgüzel’in “Gökteki Venüs” adlı kitabında anlatır: “İşte bu sıralarda karşıma yabancı bir mühendis çıktı. Keşfimle çok yakından ilgilendi. Tetkik ettirmek üzere benden hesap ve projeler istedi. Hepsini aldı gitti. Aradan tam bir sene geçtikten sonra cevap geldi. Geldi ama artık bizim keşif, keşif olmaktan, icat olmaktan, ihtira olmaktan çıkmıştı. Tabii tıpkısı değil, fakat benimkine benzer bir alet, şimdi Amerika havacılığında muvaffakiyetle tatbik ediliyor.” Vecihi Hürkuş’un havacılık tarihimizin büyük kahramanlarından biri olduğunu defalarca yazdım, tek kişilik sahne oyunumda, televizyon ve radyo programlarımda anlattım. Geniş kitleler tarafından tanınarak tarihte hak ettiği yeri almasına katkıda bulunduğum Vecihi Hürkuş ile Emrullah Âli Yıldız karşılaşmış olabilir mi? 1937 yılının 13 Mart’ında, Vecihi Hürkuş’un uçağını Sultanahmet Cami ve Ayasofya üzerinde alçaktan uçarken görürüz. Ünlü pilot uçağının arkasında bir planör çekmektedir. Ancak birden çeki teli kopan planör, yükseklik uygun olmadığı için yere doğru savrulur. İstanbulluların korku dolu bakışları altında pilot, Gülhane Parkı’nın ağaçlarından birinin üstüne planörü bir kuş gibi kondurmayı başarır. Emrullah Âli Yıldız halkın alkışları arasında ağaçtan inerken, yuvadan düşen bir yavru kuşun üstünde dolaşan anne gibi olanı biteni gören Vecihi Hürkuş gönül rahatlığı içinde Yeşilköy’e experience pilot at the Etimesgut Plane Factory during the years of 1941 and 1949, who later on gave the gift of the automatic parachute system to the world of aviation. Yıldız explains his invention as such for the June 1943 issue of Aviation and Sports magazine: “Since the speed of today’s planes’ are much higher than the occurrence speed of parachutes, pilots of planes with a dead engine, broken wing or burning body have to wait for a while before opening their parachute. In order for this to happen, the pilot has to calculate his timing and thus has to be an experienced parachute user. If we consider the impossibility of this along with the probability of the pilot being injured, the usability of the parachute shall be nothing more than a coincidence. However, this tool will free the pilot from a great burden preventing any mistakes he/she might make such as opening the parachute early or late. The tool does not prevent the pilot to intentionally open the parachute at his own will. The pilot can open and use the parachute whenever he/she wants to do so.” Although the invention of Emrullah Ali Yıldız did not attract many people’s attention in Turkey, an American was concerned about this invention which is a huge step in the history of aviation. In the book by Bahattin Adıgüzel, entitled, “Venus in the Sky”, Yıldız talks about the things he went through while trying out the invention for 15 times: “That was when my paths crossed with that of a foreign engineer. He was so interested in my invention. He asked for calculations and projects to me for verification. He took them all and got lost. I got a reply a year later. It arrived but our invention turned out to be no longer an invention, nor a discovery. Of course not the same, but a tool similar to mine, is now successfully serving American aviation.” I wrote many times that Vecihi Hürkuş was one of the greatest heroes in our history of aviation and also mentioned that on my stand-up show, TV and radio programs. Is it possible that Vechi Hurkus for whom I made significant contributions in making him known could have crossed paths with Emrullah Ali Yıldız? On March 13th 1937, we see the plane of Vecihi Hürkuş flying low above of Sultanahmet Mosque and Hagia Sofia. The famous pilot is dragging a glider at the back of his plane. But when the wire rope breaks off, the glider falls down. The pilot manages to land the glider on one of the trees in Gülhane Park with all the İstanbul citizens staring at him frightfully. While Emrullah Ali Yıldız is getting off the tree with applauses of the citizens around him, Vecihi Hürkuş, observes the whole situation from above like a mother bird and returns to Yeşilköy with his heart at ease. A short time before his death, in an interview with Hasan Erkan Karaca in 1993 he says, “We would test new aviation products at the cost of our lives and still the officials would not be able to give the decision to have them manufactured”, thus stating the difficulties that our aviation faced while also talking about another invention of his: “I got the patent for a helicopter in 1956. But nobody was interested in that. I had another patent work for a craft similar to Harrier’s vertical ascension. Due to lack of interest, I also could not carry it out. Later on, it hurt so bad to see the Harrier plane!” Selamı Öztürk, mayor of Kadıköy at the time, fully supported my suggestion listening to it very carefully and made a sculpture of Vecihi Hürkuş at Kızıltoprak. Now, I have a suggestion for Emrullah Ali Yıldız. Shall we make a sculpture for him in Bursa? Of course it could happen but that’s not what I suggest! Emrullah Ali Yıldız had a photography studio in Galatasaray. The specialty of that studio was that the person who wanted to take a photograph of himself would enter a cabinet, look at the mirror in front of him and take his own picture by pressing the button at the end of a wire. Yıldız developed this hayat hikayesi life story 2002 yılında verilen Tıssandier diploması (Mustafa Kılıç arşivi)