Bi-bi-si has named Sikorsky immigrant from the Ukraine
The broadcasting company of Bi-bi-si has named Russian scientist and aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky, who was born in 1889 in Kiev in the Russian Empire, an immigrant From Ukraine.
"Firm Sikorsky known as the producer of one of the most famous military helicopters USA UH-60" Black hawk ". The company was founded in 1923 as an immigrant From the Ukraine ", ? reported in the report on the Internet office of bi-Bi-si.
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was born in 1889 in Kiev in the Russian Empire. Scientist, aerospace engineer, inventor, philosopher. The Creator of the world's first four-engine airplane "Russian Vityaz" (1913), heavy four-engine bomber and the passenger plane "Ilya Muromets" (1914), transatlantic seaplane, serial single-rotor helicopter scheme (USA, 1942). From 1903 to 1906 he studied at the St. Petersburg Naval Academy. In 1907 he entered the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, 18 February 1918 Sikorski via free from the Bolsheviks set out from Arkhangelsk Russia, the first in London and then in Paris. In March 1919, Sikorsky emigrated to the United States, settled in the area of new York, the first time earning the teaching of mathematics. In 1923 he founded the aircraft company Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation, where he held the position of President. By 1939, Sikorsky has created about fifteen types of aircraft. In 1939 he moved to the design of helicopter single-rotor design With the swashplate, the widespread. Died in 1972 in Easton, Connecticut. He was buried at the Greek Catholic Church of Saint John the Baptist Church in Stratford.
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