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Igor Ivan Sikorsky
Igor Ivan Sikorsky
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She received an education in a medical college, but motherhood prevented her continuation of' scientific work. Before Igor was born, she was much absorbed with the life and work of' Leonardo da Vinci, who among all his other activities was among the first to study flying and to produce preliminary designs and sketches of wings.
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Accordingly, although in good standing, he resigned from the Naval Academy in 1906 at the age of seventeen. The abortive 1906 Revolution in Russia seriously disrupted academic work in that country, so Igor spent several months in Paris studying engineering.
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Thus, well-knowing that many people had spent much time, capability, and money unsuccessfully trying to design flying machines in the past, Igor Sikorsky, at the age of nineteen, decided to hitch his life to the aviation star. Thus, during his summer vacation in 1908, in the room of a small hotel in Germany, Igor Ivanovitch Sikorsky began his first steady work in aeronautics.
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In the spring of 1912 Igor Sikorsky entered into an agreement with the Russian Baltic Railroad Car Factory in Petrograd as Designer and Chief Engineer of the aircraft factory of the company, on very favorable terms. During 1912 the S-6-B two-place biplane, S-7 two-place monoplane, and the smaller S-8 training plane were built.
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Finally making up his mind, Igor Sikorsky left Russia in March 1918, taking with him a few hundred English pounds, and leaving behind the substantial investments resulting from his several years of intensive and successful work. He went to Paris via London.
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In the fall of 1919 he visited Washington and McCook Field in Dayton, where he spent six weeks working on the preliminary design of a large three-engined bomber for the Army Air Service. Igor returned to New York early in 1920 and unsuccessfully made several more attempts to reenter aviation in the next several months.
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By the spring of 1927 the S-37 was successfully flown and shown to be entirely suitable for the transatlantic {light. On May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh made his remarkable solo flight across the Atlantic.
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Building on the excellent characteristics of the S-40, and using all of the latest aeronautical information, the latest power plants and propellers, and the Pan American operating experience, plans were made for a true transoceanic flying Clipper the S-42. The S-42 was designed in 1932, and construction began in 1933.
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Finally, in July 1937 the first regular airline crossing of the North Atlantic between the United States and England started. Service also started to Portugal by the Bermuda-Azores route.
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Development flights continued until December 9, 1939, when a gust of wind upset the VS-300 because ot lack ot aircraft control power, and the VS-300 was badly damaged. The aircraft was rebuilt in a second configuration, adding two horizontal tail rotors supported on booms.
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However, while still in this second configuration, the VS-300 established an American helicopter endurance record of 1 hour, 5 minutes, 14.5 seconds on April 15, 1941, and a world's record of 1 hour, 32 minutes, 26.1 seconds on May 6. During May 1941 the VS-300 was again modified, removing the two horizontal tail rotors, increasing cyclic control power on the main rotor, and installing a single horizontal tad]
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Sikorsky `` ell enough tic call him "Igor" and a mere acquaintance would not encourage this I'amiliarity because fit' his Diet unassuming dignity admire him very much and greatly praline his friendship He is a trimly unusual person He is a genius He has great natural ability He has, thr`~gh`'ut his life, increased his inherently high capabilities by study, observation, and analytical c`'nsiderati`'n He is able and stilling, to 264
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Doolittle, USAF (Ret.) For those of us who knew Igor Sikorsky, we can only comment, "Well and truly said." Igor Ivan Sikorsky was a whole man, one who it was a privilege to work with and to know.
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