| 1913 y. |
May 26, 1913 in St. Petersburg hosted the world`s first flight multiengined airplane "Russian Vityaz", which was created by a young engineer Igor Sikorsky as a test aircraft for strategic intelligence.Provided for the deployment of both two and four engines.The plane was originally called "Grand" or "Big Baltic", and after several revisions - "Russian Vityaz".Rumor giant air swept across Russia.
Emperor Nicholas has expressed a desire to inspect it.Airplane overtaken in the Red Village, King went on board.Soon Sikorski handed him a memorable gift - a gold watch.The aircraft, surpassed in size and take-off weight of all hitherto constructed, signaled a new direction in aviation - a heavy aircraft construction.The machine is a young engineer Igor Sikorsky opened a new chapter in the history of world aviation.
After two and a half months, the aircraft set a world record, having held out in the air one o`clock 54 minutes, with seven passengers on board."Russian Vityaz" was the ancestor of all subsequent passenger jets, heavy bombers and transport aircraft in the world.In 1914.
the inventor already on the Russian-Baltic wagon factory built my second plane Ilya Murom "with 100-horsepower engine and a wingspan of 31 meters, on which he flew from St. Petersburg to Kiev and back.In the same year the decision of Minister of War, Russia was put in place the situation "On the organization of a squadron of aircraft" Ilya Murom ", which specifications had no equal at that time.In subsequent years, Sikorsky helicopters have been established, cranes, helicopters, amphibians, helicopters, minesweepers, turbine helicopters with retractable landing gear and 15 types of aircraft.
One after another of his inventions set world records for payload and speed, and some models did not even know unrivaled. |
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