Igor Sikorsky
American aviation pioneer from Russian Empire (1889–1972)
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- Momentum1.0
- Scientists rank#165
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Lived 1889–1972, aged 83United States
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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.
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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…
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