# Igor Sikorsky

> He built the first successful four-engine airplane, then fled revolution and did it again in a new country — this time teaching the helicopter to hover.

*American aviation pioneer from Russian Empire (1889–1972)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/igor-sikorsky

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1889-05-25
- **Died:** 1972-10-26
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Sikorsky's fifth airplane, the S-5, won him a pilot's license and national attention in Russia; by 1912 his S-6-A took the highest award at the Moscow Aviation Exhibition. In 1913 he flew the Russky Vityaz, the first four-engine aircraft to leave the ground, then stretched the design into the Ilya Muromets family — airliners he converted into the world's first four-engine bombers when World War I arrived. The Russian Revolution sent him to the United States in 1919. Four years later he founded Sikorsky Aircraft and spent the 1930s building Pan American's ocean-crossing flying boats, including the S-42 Flying Clipper. In 1939 he flew the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, the first viable American helicopter, pioneering the single main rotor and tail rotor layout most helicopters still use. He refined it into the R-4, the first mass-produced helicopter, in 1942.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 57.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.6 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 25.2 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0797756/ (@nm0797756)

## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Science, #20th Century

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sikorsky)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212446)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Igor%20Sikorsky)
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- [İqor Sikorskiy](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0qor_Sikorskiy)
- [Ігар Сікорскі](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%A1%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96)
- [Ігар Іванавіч Сікорскі](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%86%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%A1%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96)
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- [Igor Iwanowitsch Sikorski](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Iwanowitsch_Sikorski)
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- [Igor Sikorsky](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2522032)

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