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The book series «Outstanding Ukrainians. People who made history" is a unique project that promotes quality leisure for parents and children. The book you are holding in your hands will tell an amazing story about the outstanding aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky.
Nowadays, multi-tonne aeroplanes and helicopters in the sky are a common thing. But a little over a hundred years ago, when such a miracle could only be imagined by researchers and admirers of Leonardo da Vinci and Jules Verne, there were a few daredevils who were ready to make the dream of the sky come true. Among the pioneers of aircraft construction, one of the most prominent key figures was the aircraft designer Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky. The aircraft designer's biography is not easy. He started working on bare enthusiasm, but managed to become one of the founders of the aviation industry. He experienced ups and downs, crises and failures, and life in a foreign land, but he never doubted his own destiny or that his projects would succeed. Sikorsky, like his inventions, travelled the globe in a complex way. He first took to the skies in Kyiv and set the first world records. In St Petersburg, he began mass production of aeroplanes. His aeroplanes became mass-produced in the United States of America. From the mid-twentieth century to the present day, Sikorsky helicopters have been in service with the US Air Force and the security service of American presidents. Sikorsky is rightly considered the father of helicopter production. He personally and under his leadership developed 78 types of aircraft. He was awarded 80 awards in the field of aircraft construction.
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky had an amazing mission in life - to improve people's lives with the help of technology. And despite numerous obstacles, he coped with his mission with dignity, becoming one of the world's most prominent aircraft designers, the author of aircraft and helicopters that became examples of advanced technology of the twentieth century.
