The Russian-American aeronautical engineer, aircraft manufacturer, and inventor Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972) designed such famous aircraft as the flying clipper and was the major developer of the helicopter. Igor Sikorsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine, where...

As a child in Kiev, Russia, Igor Sikorsky studied and dreamed about flying. First studying the designs of Leonardo da Vinci and later the work of Louis Blériot and Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, he designed and built his first helicopter in 1909...

1889-1972 Russian-American Aircraft Designer Today remembered as the father of the helicopter, Igor Sikorsky had three distinct aviation careers. During the birth of aviation, Sikorsky designed and constructed the first successful large four-engine...

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (25 May, 1889 – 26 October, 1972)[1] (Russian: Игорь Иванович Сикорский) was a Russian-American pioneer of aviation who designed and flew the world's first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, developed...

IGOR SIKORSKY Aviation Pioneer and Engineering Entrepreneur Rotary-winged aircraft were always a vision in the fertile mind of Igor Sikorsky. For decades, he tried to build a helicopter, but success eluded him until the late 1930s. In the meantime, he built a...

The Russian airplane designer, Igor Sikorsky, is well known for creating the four-engine Il'ya Muromets bomber-reconnaissance air craft in 1914, an achievement that marked the be ginning of a new era in Russian aviation. He is less well known, however, as the designer...