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...back into the running. Furthermore, Rentschler had not lost his prophetic eye. He decided to stop making flying boats in his Vought-Sikorsky division (they were competing with his planemaking engine customers), and decided to start pouring millions into a brand-new type of aircraft, the helicopter. In 1940, Igor Sikorsky made the first helicopter flight in the U.S., and opened up another field of air transport. But soon, the helicopter, and most other experimental projects at United, were swept into the background. World War II came and the big job was to expand production of United's engines...
...story led back to one night in 1945 when Igor Gouzenko, a Russian clerk in the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, abruptly defected and fled to Canadian police with an armload of files. Those files convicted British Dr. Allan Nunn May of handing over a sample of U-235 and U-233 to a Russian in Montreal. May also admitted that he had written out a report for the Russians on what he knew of atomic energy. He knew a great deal. He was in & out of the secret lab at the University of Chicago, where- under the stadium-the first...
...helicopter boom has been military. Only two cities, Chicago and Los Angeles, use helicopters as certified mail carriers. But Igor Sikorsky thinks the speedup in production and research is fast bringing the day when jet-powered helicopters will carry 50 passengers at 150 m.p.h. When that day conies, he expects the helicopter to come of age and be the short-haul bus that the airways have always needed...
...helicopter is in its babyhood," said Igor Sikorsky last week. "It's not much beyond the airplane in the Kitty Hawk days." But even Sikorsky, who is the father of all U.S. helicopters, is amazed at how fast his baby is growing. Last week the Sikorsky Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corp. announced it will increase its factory floor space by one-third to 500,000 sq. ft. The Civil Aeronautics Administration approved' Sikorsky's new, fast (111 m.p.h.), four-place YH-18; the armed services jammed his production lines with orders for the older and bigger...
Clippers & Copters. Igor Sikorsky, now 61, has been working 42 years to win such recognition for the egg beater. He designed his first helicopter in Russia in 1908, but it never got far off the ground. Sikorsky turned to plane design, turned out the first four-engine ship for the Czar's air force in World...