Author: SIKORSKY, IGOR I.
Title: The Story of the Winged -S. The Autobiography of Igor I. Sikorsky.
Description: London: Robert Hale Limited, 1939. 1st edition. Autobiography of the Kyiv born aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. After immigrating to the United States in 1919 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 Clipper".In 1939, 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. Pp.288, portrait photo frontispiece + many more illustrations from the Author's collection of photographs, owner's name to front free endpaper, endpapers tanned. Red cloth rubbed woth wear to spine and edges, bumps to corner tips. G+.

Keywords: Igor Sikorsky Autobiography Winged S Aviation Helicopters Flying Boats Aircraft History 552957 General Biography


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