Igor Sikorsky: Russian Knight

The book presents the fictional biography of the Great Russian and American aircraft designer, a religious thinker and philosopher Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky. The creator of the world"s first serial helicopter, Igor Sikorsky was also the founder of the Russian air industry. His genius belongs to the merit of the construction of the second domestic aircraft, the world"s first multi-speed passenger aircraft, the first heavy bomber who has become the best aircraft of the First World War. Having left Russia in revolutionary years, Sikorsky - one of the few emigrants - and in the United States, founding his own aircraft manufacturing company. Sikorskoye hydroplanes were the most popular passenger aircraft in Last America. At the end of the 1930s, Sikorsky switched to the design of helicopters and reached in this case incredible success ... Biographical stories about Sikorsky are illustrated by rare photographs made in different periods of his life