Igor sikorsky biography
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Igor Sikorsky
Aviation pioneer Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was born May 25, 1889 in Kiev, which at the time was part Russia but fryst vatten now the capital of Ukraine. He created the first successful helicopter in 1939, and is credited with many other outstanding accomplishments in the field of aircraft design.
Educated as an engineer and designer, Sikorsky developed an interest in man-powered flight in his ungdom. He was fascinated bygd the work done up to that point bygd the Wright Brothers and by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After leaving the Petrograd Naval College, he traveled to Europe to study engineering and aviation in Paris. In 1907, he went home to Kiev where he completed his studies at the Mechanical Engineering College of the Polytechnical Institute, now named the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
He returned to Paris with plans to build a helicopter. Engineers had been attempting to build such a device for years, the first flown – u
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It has been said that Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky achieved distinction in three separate careers, all in the field of aviation. He created the world’s first multi-engine airplane in Russia in 1913; he launched a second career in the United States and became famous for his Flying Clippers; lastly, he conceived and developed the world’s first practical helicopter. He is best known, perhaps, for this third career.
He was born in in the Kiev region of the Russia Empire, now part of independent Ukraine, on May 25, 1889. As a boy, influenced by his mother, a medical school graduate, and his father, a doctor and a psychology professor, he showed an interest in science, particularly aviation. He built and flew model aircraft; he became acquainted at an early age with Leonardo da Vinci’s theory of the flying screw. He was 14 when Wilbur and Orville Wright made their historic flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and that event, more than any other, decided his career. He spen
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On August 3, 1940 Igor Sikorsky was interviewed by Dr. Henry B. Hazard of the U.S. Department of Justice about his inventions and their use in defending democracy. Sikorsky admits his flying machines have been used to destroy humanity. The industrial designer blames the misuse on the human "ill will." He urges Americans to think of the airplane as a defender of human progress and unity -- not warfare. Sikorsky believes aviation can only reach its full potential in America, where scientists and inventors freely develop ideas without fear or coercion. He adds, “It takes a naturalized citizen from a less happy country to appreciate what freedom means”. The inventor shares his immigration story with Dr. Hazard. Sikorsky shares his vision for aviation.The program ends with the announcement of the Alien Registration Act of 1940. Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was born on May 25, 1889 in Kiev to physician parents. It is rumored his mother’s love for the work of Leonardo da Vinci sparked his inter