Word: islamoff
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Jacob Islamoff knew that this "dolly" had not been tested with the ship weighing over 20,000 lb. Also he knew that now, with a last-moment extra fuel tank added, the ship weighed 28,845 Ib. Earlier tests had come out decimal perfect; Designer Igor Sikorsky knew his business; the three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors had demonstrated their power conclusively and would doubtless lift the whole weight free as a bird. But still, that "dolly" . . . However, Mechanic Islamoff said nothing...
...from the gully, furbelowed with black. Captain Fonck and Lieutenant Curtin were found struggling to their feet, 20 yards from the inferno they had escaped before it burst. The flames had their way for hours. Then, certain cinders, a Koran, a crucifix, indicated where Charles Clavier and Jacob Islamoff had burned behind jammed doors. There was no angry inquiry as to why the "dolly" had not been finally tested. Pilot Fonck, Lieutenant Curtin, Designer Sikorsky and his aids, were all exonerated by the coroner of criminal negligence. Some "fanatics" (he did not name them) plagued sad Capitaine Fonck for days...
...another attempt at the flight, in another Sikorsky, by the Messrs. Fonck and Curtin, for Hotelman Raymond C. Orteig's $25,000 prize, yes; for the advancement of aviation and French American amity, by all means; but mostly, in memory of the charred sacrifices- Operator Clavier, Mechanic Islamoff...
Died. Jacob Islamoff, onetime Lieutenant in the onetime Imperial Russian Navy, airplane mechanic; at Roosevelt Field, Westbury, L. I., in the crash of Captain René Fonck's giant Sikorsky plane...
...leaden coffin containing his body for a mile and a half from a Westbury funeral parlor to the Sikorsky hangar. Upon the coffin was the now obsolete flag of the Imperial Russian Navy under the Tsar. Upon this were the crossed sword and scabbard once belonging to Lieutenant Islamoff. Glistening from a verdant cloth at one end was the golden star and crescent of Islam. As his bier rested on the three burned-out Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors of the demolished plane, Mullah Hussan, a Mohammedan priest, read with tears in his eyes the funeral service from the Koran...