igor sikorsky

By bellgeorge
  • birth

    birth

  • joining the saint petersburg imperial russain naval academy

    Sikorsky began studying at the Saint Petersburg Imperial Russian Naval Academy, at the age of 14

  • leaving the academy with the really long name

    In 1906, he 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. He returned to Russia in 1907, enrolling at the Mechanical College of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute.

  • making the first helicopter

  • creating the second helicopter

  • building the first 4 engine plane

    building the first 4 engine plane

  • organizing the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation

  • becoming a citizen

  • developing the first of Pan American Airways' ocean-conquering flying boats

    After immigrating to the United States in 1919, Sikorsky founded the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in 1923, and developed the first of Pan American Airways' ocean-conquering flying boats in the 1930s.

  • 1st helicopter flies a few feet above the ground

  • inventing the first mass produced helicopter

    inventing the first mass produced helicopter

    he invented the first viable American helicopter, which pioneered the rotor configuration used by most helicopters today. Sikorsky modified the design into the Sikorsky R-4, which became the world's first mass-produced helicopter in 1942.
  • death (83)

    death (83)

  • getting a plane named after himself

    getting a plane named after himself

    In November 2012, one of the Russian supersonic heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, based at the Engels-2 Air Force Base, was named after Igor Sikorsky.