Davidovici, Doru, 1945-

Doru Davidovici (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdoru daˈvidovit͡ʃʲ]; July 6, 1945 – April 20, 1989), was a Romanian aviator and writer. Born in a Romanian-Jewish family, Doru Davidovici became one of the most loved Romanian fiction writers in the 1980s. During the communist years, his books gave an unusual sense of liberty and new horizons by describing the experience of flying, and the closeness it forged – both between pilots and between pilots and their machines. The plane is seen by Davidovici not simply as a machine that enables one to fly but as an actual character, with its own personality and almost with its own soul.