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SIKORKSY FIRST RUSSIN BUILT AND FLEW FIRST

FOUR ENGINE AIRPLANE

FIRST FOUR ENGINE PLANE

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (25 May 1889 – 26 October 1972)[1] (Russian: Игорь Иванович Сикорский) was a Ukrainian-American pioneer of aviation who designed and flew the world's first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, developed the first of Pan American Airways' ocean-conquering flying boats in the 1930s, and spearheaded the development of helicopters using the most common configuration (single main rotor with vertical tail rotor).[2][1] Igor Sikorsky ranks just short of the Wright brothers themselves as an aviation pioneer, and although he is often claimed to be the first person to achieve volume helicopter production and other helicopter milestones, some evidence exists that this honour should go to Anton Flettner of Germany. [3] [4]Historic Video 12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sikorsky

The Year was around 1912

One of his planes won a design competition in Russia in 1912. Also that year, Sikorsky designed the world's first four-engine plane with an enclosed passenger compartment

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