Download or read book Igor Sikorsky written by Konstantin Nikolayevich Finne and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om den berømte flyinstruktørs mindre kendte virke i Rusland, hvor han konstruerede sit første fly i 1910, og indtil han emigrerede til USA i 1918. Bogen er første engelske oversættelse - dog noget forkortet - af det oprindelige værk skrevet i 1930.
Download or read book Igor Sikorsky written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Igor Sikorsky the Russian Years written by K. N. Finne and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Winged S written by Igor Sikorsky and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Helicopter Man written by Edwin Brit Wyckoff and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Read about Igor Sikorsky's life, and how he built the first successful helicopter"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Message in the Lord s Prayer written by Igor Ivan Sikorsky and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientist, inventor, philosopher and multi-talented genius Igor Sikorsky illuminates the message in the Lord’s Prayer with simplicity and insight.
Download or read book Airplanes Women and Song written by Bois Sergievsky and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boris Sergievsky was one of the most colorful of the early aviators. He made his first flight less than ten years after the Wright brothers made theirs; he made his last only four years before the Concorde took off. Born in Russia, Sergievsky learned to fly in 1912. In World War I, he became a much-decorated infantry officer and then a fighter pilot, battling the Austro-Hungarians. During the Russian Civil War that followed, he fought on three fronts against the Bolsheviks. Coming to America in 1923, the first job he could find in New York was with a pick and shovel, digging the Holland Tunnel, but he soon joined Igor Sikorsky’s airplane company. Over the next decade as chief test pilot for the company, he tested the Sikorsky flying boats that Pan American Airways used to establish its world-wide routes, setting seventeen world aviation records along the way. Sergievsky also flew pioneering flights across unchartered African and Latin American jungles in the 1930s, flew with Charles Lindbergh, tested early helicopters and jets, and flew his own Grumman Mallard on charter flights until 1965. Through it all, his sense of humor remained intact, as did his passion for beautiful women.
Download or read book Imperial Russian Air Service written by Alex Durkota and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive coverage of the major branches and ace pilots of the Russian Air Service in the Great War.
Download or read book The MISSING LINKS to the Igor Sikorsky Story written by Sally H. Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: March 30, 1919, when this Russian immigrant landed in America, no one could have foretold what an impact he would make. His dreams focused on the new field of aviation spearheaded by the Wright brothers about ten years earlier.His vision was to see large airliners full of people, or cargo, or mail traveling great distances in safety and comfort-and beyond that, a vertical flight machine that would lift straight into the air.His ability to follow those dreams in his newly adopted country seemed unattainable until the combined forces of a fellow immigrant and some determined New Englanders caught on to his unheralded abilities in the world of aviation. Unknown stories of what was happening in the Sikorsky business in the mid-to-late 1920s recently came to light when records of that period were discovered in some old file boxes which had been ignored for 50 or more years. This was new information even for the Sikorsky Archives organization in Stratford, Connecticut.Through extensive research, the author has skillfully woven this new information into the well-known stories of Lindbergh's flight, the Frances Grayson debacle, and Igor Sikorsky's many attempts at providing this country with the best fixed wing aircraft possible-and finally the helicopter. Many beautiful photographs previously unpublished are sure to capture the reader's attention.
Download or read book The Story of the Winged S written by Igor Ivan Sikorsky and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sikorsky Aircraft Centennial written by John Bulakowski and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Igor Sikorsky was a pioneering Russian engineer and aviator driven from his home by revolution. The Sikorsky Aircraft Centennial 1923-2023, a Tribute by the Igor I. Sikorsky Historical Archives, documents his work in the United States and that of the pioneering American company that he founded. It traces the growth of Sikorsky Aircraft from a struggling fixed-wing aviation concern started on a Long Island farm to a world-leading helicopter manufacturer today headquartered in Connecticut. The book draws on archival documents, photos, and interviews to trace Sikorsky's early contributions to commercial aviation and the revolution he brought about in vertical flight. Igor Sikorsky arrived in New York City in 1919 determined to advance aviation technology and later wrote, "The United States seemed to me the only place which offered a real opportunity in what was then a rather precarious profession. I had been inspired by the work of Edison and Ford, the realization that a man in this country, with ideas of value -- and I hoped that mine were -- might have a chance to succeed." He launched Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation in 1923 and ultimately designed, built, and delivered fixed-wing land planes, amphibians, and flying boats, including the Pan American Airways Clippers that established the first trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific passenger routes. With demand for his big flying boats declining, Sikorsky turned his engineering genius to rotary-wing flight and piloted his one-of-a-kind VS-300 helicopter in 1939. Recollections from Igor Sikorsky and his son Sergei describe the trial-and-error testing and improvements that made the VS-300 so important. The senior Sikorsky later told his son, "The jet may have made the world smaller. The helicopter made it bigger by allowing mankind to live and work in areas that would have been inaccessible by any other vehicle." From Sikorsky's first American fixed-wing aircraft, the S-29A, to the latest helicopter design, the S-102 Raider-X, this book tells the story of every model produced by Sikorsky Aircraft. It traces the development of helicopter air mobility in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, antisubmarine warfare in the U.S. Navy, combat rescue in the U.S. Air Force, and air-sea rescue in the U.S. Coast Guard. The story also covers the introduction of helicopters in scheduled airlines and the oil industry, and it describes the digital design and manufacturing developments that shape how future aircraft will be designed, built and perform. Richly illustrated with more than 400 unique photos, The Sikorsky Aircraft Centennial 1923-2023 also covers the evolution of Sikorsky Aircraft, today a Lockheed Martin Company. It illustrates Igor Sikorsky's innovative patents and historic memorabilia and tells a proud story of immigration, invention, and industry. This volume will be a fascinating read for every aviation enthusiast and for those looking to learn more about Igor Sikorsky's history in America.
Download or read book Lonely Ideas written by Loren Graham and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern. When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled “Made in Russia”? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is economically dependent on gas and oil. In Lonely Ideas, Loren Graham investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by failure to commercialize and implement. For three centuries, Graham shows, Russia has been adept at developing technical ideas but abysmal at benefiting from them. From the seventeenth-century arms industry through twentieth-century Nobel-awarded work in lasers, Russia has failed to sustain its technological inventiveness. Graham identifies a range of conditions that nurture technological innovation: a society that values inventiveness and practicality; an economic system that provides investment opportunities; a legal system that protects intellectual property; a political system that encourages innovation and success. Graham finds Russia lacking on all counts. He explains that Russia's failure to sustain technology, and its recurrent attempts to force modernization, reflect its political and social evolution and even its resistance to democratic principles. But Graham points to new connections between Western companies and Russian researchers, new research institutions, a national focus on nanotechnology, and the establishment of Skolkovo, “a new technology city.” Today, he argues, Russia has the best chance in its history to break its pattern of technological failure.
Download or read book Russian Motor Vehicles written by Maurice A. Kelly and published by David and Charles. This book was released on 2009 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Igor Sikorsky Letter to John Hays Hammond Jr Dated Sikorsky Aircraft Bridgeport 1 Connecticut 27 November 1953 written by Igor Ivan Sikorsky and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter to Hammond discussing the possible military applications of helicopters.
Download or read book Russian Aviation and Air Power in the Twentieth Century written by John Greenwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the light of new archival material the editors take a fresh look at Russian aviation in the twentieth century. Presenting a comprehensive view of Russian aviation, from its genesis in the late czarist period to the present era, the approach is essentially chronological with a major emphasis on the evolution of military aviation. The contributions are diverse, with appropriate attention to civilian and institutional themes.
Download or read book Heelicopter written by William E. Hunt and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939, the Russian Igor Sikorsky successfully piloted the world's pioneer helicopter (a word which he always pronounced with a broad "e", as in "helix"). This account describes how he overcame the many technical problems associated with the development of vertical-lift-off aircraft.
Download or read book The Sikorsky Legacy written by Sergei I. Sikorsky and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of Sikorsky aviation and its founder, Igor I. Sikorsky, one of the most talented and versatile aeronautical pioneers in history. Sikorsky's aviation career spanned over 60 years and was highlighted by three major achievements: the creation of the world's first four-engine airliner; the record-breaking Clipper Ships, with which Pan American Airways explored transpacific and transatlantic airline service; and the development of the helicopter. Sikorsky then led his engineers out of the piston-engine era and into the jet age with the design and development of some of the most widely used turbine-powered helicopters in aviation history. More than 200 photographs, many from the Sikorsky family archives, document the genius of Sikorsky's intuitive engineering and his lifelong interest in the challenge of the helicopter, which many historians consider to be his crowning achievement.
