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Igor Sikorsky
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was a Russian-American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the Sikorsky S-2, the second aircraft of his design and construction. His fifth airplane, the S-5, won him national recognition in Russia and secured F.A.I. pilot's license number 64. His S-6-A received the highest award at the 1912 Moscow Aviation Exhibition, an…
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business · Russian-American aviation pioneer (1889–1972) · military flight engineer · inventor · aircraft pilot · entrepreneur · also Igor Sikorsky, Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, Sikorsky
Born 25 May 1889 · Died 26 October 1972 · Q212446
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 2 entries
Flightglobal: Sikorsky marks 100 years of vertical flight innovation
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autoevolution: Igor Sikorsky Was the Henry Ford of Helicopters, Founded His Company 100 Years Ago
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2018· 1 entry
The Kyiv City Council officially renamed Kyiv International Airport to "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport Zhuliany"
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2013· 1 entry
Flying magazine ranked Sikorsky number 12 on its list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded Edward Warner Award (1990).
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At the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, was named in honor of him
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1987).
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1972· 2 entries
And is buried in Saint John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cemetery, located on Nichols Avenue in Stratford
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Died 1972-10-26.
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1968· 2 entries
Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (1968).
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Won John Fritz Medal (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1967).
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1966· 1 entry
Sikorsky was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame
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1963· 1 entry
Won ASME Medal (1963).
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1955· 1 entry
Won James Watt International Medal (1955).
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded John Scott Award (1954).
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1951· 3 entries
Won Daniel Guggenheim Medal (1951).
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He joined United Technologies in 1951 and retired in 1992, as Vice-President of Special Projects at Sikorsky Aircraft.
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And retired in 1992, as Vice-President of Special Projects at Sikorsky Aircraft
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1946· 1 entry
Won FAI Gold Air Medal (1946).
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1943· 1 entry
Won Worcester Reed Warner Medal (1943).
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1939· 2 entries
With the first free flight occurring eight months later on May 24, 1940
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Sikorsky designed and flew the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, the first viable American helicopter, which pioneered the single main rotor and a single antitorque tail rotor configuration used by most helicopters today
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1933· 1 entry
Won Howard N. Potts Medal (1933).
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1932· 1 entry
Joined the faculty of the University of Rhode Island to form an aeronautical engineering program and remained with the university until 1948
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1931· 1 entry
Sikorsky filed for a patent for another "direct lift aircraft", and was awarded patent No
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1929· 1 entry
Filed an application to patent a "direct lift" amphibian aircraft which used compressed air to power a direct lift "propeller" and two smaller propellers for thrust
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1928· 1 entry
Sikorsky became a naturalized citizen of the United States
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1923· 3 entries
Sikorsky formed the Sikorsky Manufacturing Company in Roosevelt, New York
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Sikorsky's sisters immigrated to the U
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In 1923, Sikorsky's sisters immigrated to the U.S., bringing six-year-old Tania with them.
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1919· 2 entries
Left France on the ocean liner Lorraine, arriving in New York City on March 30, 1919
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Because of the Russian Revolution, Sikorsky founded the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in 1923 and developed the first of Pan American Airways' ocean-crossing flying boats in the 1930s, including the Sikorsky S-42 "Flying
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1917· 2 entries
They were divorced and Olga remained in Russia with their daughter, Tania, as Sikorsky departed following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
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Igor Sikorsky fled his homeland in early 1918, because the Bolsheviks threatened to shoot him for being "the Tsar's friend and a very popular person"
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1914· 1 entry
Sikorsky's airplane research and production business in Kiev was flourishing, and his factory made bombers during the war
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1913· 1 entry
The Sikorsky-designed Russky Vityaz (S-21) became the first successful four-engine aircraft to take flight
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1911· 1 entry
Studied at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute of Emperor Alexander II (1911).
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1910· 1 entry
Sikorsky Prize – a prize for human powered helicopters named in his honor
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1907· 1 entry
Enrolling at the Mechanical College of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute
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1906· 1 entry
Determined that his future lay in engineering, so he resigned from the academy, despite his satisfactory standing, and left the Russian Empire to study in Paris
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1900· 1 entry
At age 11, he accompanied his father to Germany and through conversations with his father became interested in natural sciences
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1889· 1 entry
Born 1889-05-25.
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