Sykesky

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, one of the world's famous aircraft designers and founders of aviation manufacturing, has done a lot of work for world aviation throughout his life, the most famous of which is the design of the world's first four large bombers and the world's first practical helicopter.

On September 14, 1939, Sikorsky, wearing a black suit, headed with a duck hat, climbed into the cockpit, easily lifted a helicopter into the air, about two-three meters high, smoothly suspended for 10 seconds, and then gently landed back on the ground. This was a new chapter in the history of aviation, he succeeded in flying the world's first real helicopter, the VS-300 with a primary wing diameter of 11.58 meters, the maximum weight of 1152 kilograms, with a good handling performance, with the basic characteristics of modern helicopters. At the end of 1940, the United States Army decided to buy a large number of VS-300 improvements, the VS-316, the Army numbered R1.4R. The first-year base, the first-stage, the

Sikorsky died in Eaton, Connecticut, on October 26, 1972, at the age of 84, and his legendary life was as he said: "Human conquest of the invention of the aircraft is the most proud great achievement, and this achievement originated in a dream of mankind. This dream can be imagined and finally realized through man."