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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Artem Mikoyan, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Andrei Tupolev, Igor Sikorsky, Alexander P. de Seversky, Yuri Kondratyuk, Oleg Antonov, Aleksandr Borisovich Zheleznyakov, Rostislav Alexeyev, Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov, Alexander Nadiradze, Boris Chertok, Sergei Tumansky, Sergey Ilyushin, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Kryakutnoy, Alexander Mozhaysky, Mikhail Gurevich, Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev, Mikhail Mil, Vladimir Petlyakov, Georgy Babakin, Vladimir Vetchinkin, Alexander Kemurdzhian, Yuri Artsutanov, Matus Bisnovat, Semyon Lavochkin, Victor Litvinov, Yuri Shargin, Mikhail Pogosyan, Anatoly Georgievich Ufimtsev, Nikolay Pilyugin, Aleksandr Dokuchayev, Nikolay Sevastyanov, Alexander Arkhangelsky, Georgy Beriev, Alexander Mikulin, Vladimir Syromyatnikov, Mikhail Simonov, Dmitri Ilyich Kozlov, Alexei Tupolev, Boris Lisunov, Vladimir Yermolaev, Arkadiy Shvetsov, Nikolay Kamov, Vladimir Barmin, Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, Eugene Michael Gluhareff, Aleksandr Bezobrazov, Vladimir Sergeyevich Vakhmistrov. Excerpt: Igor Sikorsky (May 25, 1889 - October 26, 1972), born Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was a Russian American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. He designed and flew the world's first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, the Russky Vityaz in 1913, and the first airliner, Ilya Muromets, in 1914. 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. In 1939 Sikorsky designed and flew the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, the first viable American helicopter, which pioneered the rotor configuration used by most helicopters today. Sikorsky would modify the design into the Sikorsky R-4, which became the world's first mass-produced helicopter in 1942. Igor...
