The Sikorsky Legacy (Images of Aviation)

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This book traces the history of Sikorsky aviation and its founder, Igor I. Sikorsky, some of the talented and versatile aeronautical pioneers in history. Sikorsky’s aviation career spanned over 60 years and used to be highlighted by three major achievements: the creation of the arena’s first four-engine airliner; the record-breaking Clipper Ships, with which Pan American Airways explored transpacific and transatlantic airline service; and the improvement 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 one of the vital so much widely used turbine-powered helicopters in aviation history. More than 200 photographs, many from the Sikorsky circle of relatives archives, document the genius of Sikorsky’s intuitive engineering and his lifelong interest within the challenge of the helicopter, which many historians believe to be his crowning success.

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