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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
A native of Kiev under the Russian Empire, Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (born May 25/June 7, 1889) gained worldwide fame as an aircraft engineer, primarily as the inventor of the helicopter (as we know it today with its universally recognizable tail rotor design). It is said that Sikorsky’s contribution to the development of air navigation is second to none. Sources tell us that Igor Sikorsky, while still residing in Russia before his immigration in 1918, invented twenty-five types of aircraft, two helicopters, three “aerosleds”, or propeller-driven sleighs, and an aircraft engine. Once settled in the United States, he developed seventeen types of aircraft and eighteen helicopters. He was a pioneer inventor of large passenger planes, among them the four-engine biplane “Ilya Muromets”—a giant flying clipper, the pride of the Russian pre-revolutionary aviation industry. His company, “Sikorsky Aircraft”, founded in 1923, is still operating to this day. A little-known fact: at the beginning of the 1920s, Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov saved Igor Sikorsky and his company from bankruptcy by sending him a check for $5,000. A few years later, Sikorsky returned the money with interest. Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was one of those honest-to-God Russians: a devout Christian committed to the ideals of monarchism. Despite ending up in emigration, Sikorsky remained true to himself. He headed the Tolstoy and Pushkin Societies and was a member of the Russian National Union in the USA.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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