Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow, Idaho, has the innocuous call letters of KRPL, but Glendale, Calif, strikes a Ukrainian note with station KIEV. Stations KORN and KOB are in South Dakota and New Mexico, but corn-fed Iowa gets into the act with Mason City's station KRIB, while Texas pays tribute to its cattle with station KINE...
Russian-born Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, the eminent early birdman and aircraft designer, has never forgotten a monumental nosebleed he suffered as a boy of ten in the Czarist city of Kiev. As he sat with cold compresses on his neck and waited miserably for his veins to close, he fell prey to an alarming thought: if his condition became chronic, he might never be able to become a flyer. One night a little later he dreamed of coursing the skies in the softly lit, walnut-paneled cabin of an enormous flying machine?a cabin he recognized with a start...
Sikorsky was just 19 when he set out, in 1909, on a pilgrimage from Kiev to Paris, then the mecca of aviation. The early aeronauts who had hived there were mostly grease-stained motorcycle or automobile racers who flew?or tried to fly?out of the sheer love of risking their necks in public. Sikorsky was a young gentleman and an embryo intellectual; his father, a physician, was famed in Russia as a psychologist, and Igor had put in three years at the Imperial Naval College in St. Petersburg, and two more at the Institute of Technology at Kiev...
...Frenchman cried. Sikorsky modified the question. "Which is the least bad?" The Frenchman meditated and answered: "The one with the smallest number of parts, for the parts are all bad, too." Sikorsky forthwith bought a 25-h.p., three-cylinder Anzani engine, took it back to Kiev, and began building a flying machine himself in his father's backyard summerhouse. It was a rude helicopter. It snorted, flapped, and vibrated, but stayed stubbornly on the ground. To Sikorsky's delight, however, it lifted 357 Ibs., only 100 Ibs. less than its own weight, when attached to a scale...
...Born in Kiev, Russia, he is a fourth generation college professor. Graduating from high school in 1918, he saw Russia inflamed by revolution, and promptly joined the White Army. "My political beliefs made it imperative," he says. But the White Army was almost wiped out in the two years of bitter fighting that followed. In 1920, those who were left sailed for Istanbul and exile. "It was a miniature Dunkirk...