Sikorsky was born on May 25, 1889, in Kiev (Ukraine), he was one of the pioneers or inventors helicopter. Igor is the youngest of five children. His father, Ivan Alexeevich Sikorsky is a professor of psychology, heredity Poland - Russia. Ivan was the son and grandson of a Russian Orthodox priest. Igor Sikorsky's mother, Mariya Stefanovna Sikorskaya is a doctor, Igor really liked the art, especially in the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci and Jules Verne story.
In 1900, at age 11, he accompanied his father to Germany and through conversations with his father, he became interested in the natural sciences. Upon returning home, Sikorsky began experimenting with flying machines model, and at the age of 12, he has made a small rubber band-powered helicopter. Sikorsky began studying at the Naval Academy, Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1903, at age 14. In 1906, he determined that his future lies in the technique, so he resigned from the Academy, despite satisfactory performance in the academy, and he left Russia to study in Paris. He returned to Russia in 1907, enrolling in the College of Engineering (Kiev Polytechnic Institute). After the academic year, Sikorsky again accompanied his father to Germany in the summer of 1908, where he learned about the work of the Wright brothers, Sikorsky later said that:
"In twenty-four hours, I decided to change my life's work, I would study the
flight .."
With the financial support of his sister Olga, Sikorsky returned to Paris in 1909 to study aeronautics in Flight School "Ecole des Techniques et de Construction Automobile Aéronautiques (ETACA)" and buy aircraft parts. At that time, Paris was the center of the aviation world. Sikorsky met with the pioneering flight, and ask them to answer questions about aircraft and flying. In May 1909, he returned to Russia and began designing his first helicopter, he began testing in July 1909. Despite progress in solving technical problems of control, Sikorsky realized that the plane will never fly. He eventually dismantle the aircraft design in October 1909.
"I've learned enough to realize that the existing state of the art, machine, material, and of all of them ranging from lack of money and lack of experience ... I will not be able to produce a helicopter that is my dream"
In early 1912, Igor Sikorsky became Chief Engineer of the division plane to Russko Vagonny Baltiisky Zavod or R-BVZ in Saint Petersburg. His work in the R-BVZ including four first aircraft engine construction, S-21 Russky Vityaz, called Le Grand. He also served as experimenters first flight on May 13, 1913. In recognition of his achievement, he was awarded an honorary degree in engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Saint Petersburg in 1914. Sikorsky took the experience of building the Russky Vityaz to develop the S-22 aircraft Ilya Muromets. Due to the outbreak of World War I, she bombers redesign the world's first four-engine, which was decorated with the Order of St. Vladimir.
After World War I, Igor Sikorsky briefly became an engineer for the French forces in Russia, during the Russian Civil War. He Seeing little chance of him being an aircraft designer in the war in Europe, and especially Russia, later, he emigrated to the United States, and arrived in New York on March 30, 1919.
In the United States, Sikorsky first worked as a school teacher and lecturer, while looking for an opportunity to work in the aviation industry. In 1932, he joined the faculty of the University of Rhode Island to form the Aeronautical Engineering program and remained with the University until 1948. He also attended the University of Bridgeport.
In 1923, Sikorsky formed the Sikorsky Manufacturing Company in Roosevelt, New York. He was assisted by several former Russian military officer. Among the supporters was Sergei Rachmaninoff Sikorsky, who introduced himself by writing a check for U.S. $ 5,000 or about $ 61,000 in 2007. Although the prototype was broken in the first flight test, Sikorsky persuaded supporters to invest $ 2,500. With additional funding, he produced the S-29, one of the first twin-engine aircraft in America, with capacity for 14 passengers and a speed of 115 mph. Performance of S-29, slower than the 1918 military aircraft.
In 1928, Sikorsky became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Sikorsky Manufacturing Company then moved to Stratford, Connecticut in 1929. and became part of the United Aircraft and Transport (now United Technologies Corporation) in July of that year. The company is producing airplanes, such as "Clipper" 42-S, used by Pan Am for trans-Atlantic flights.
Meanwhile, Sikorsky also continued to work on the previous vertical flight. On February 14, 1929, he filed a patent application for a "direct lift" for seaplanes. On June 27, 1931, Sikorsky filed another patent for a "direct lift aircraft", and was awarded patent number 1,994,488 on March 19, 1935 on the design design and ultimately, the success of Sikorsky VS-300 leads to R-4, which became the first helicopter in world to be mass produced in 1942. VS-300 finally by Sikorsky in using rotor configuration, which consists of a single main rotor and tail rotor antitorque single, and became one of the most popular helicopter models, the most widely used in current production and Sikorsky helicopters called touted as the inventor modern helicopter.
Sikorsky Simkovitch married to Olga Fyodorovna in Russia. They divorced and Olga remained in Russia with their daughter and went to the American Sikorsky ahead of the October Revolution. Sikorsky married Elisabeth Semion in 1924, in New York, Sikorsky and Elisabeth then had four sons Sergei, Nikolai, Igor Jr. and George.
Sikorsky died at his home in Easton, Connecticut, on October 26, 1972, and was buried in Saint John's Cemetery in Stratford. Sikorsky has been designated a Connecticut Aviation Pioneer by the Connecticut State Legislature. Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in Stratford Connecticut, to this day to be one of the world's leading helicopter manufacturer, and a small airport nearby has named Sikorsky Memorial Airport. So, thank you for reading this article. Written and posted by Bambang Sunarno. sunarnobambang86@gmail.com
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