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Died. Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, 80, Russian-born aeronautical pioneer; in Manhattan. A czarist pilot who downed 13 German planes in World War I after losing a leg in combat, Seversky settled in the U.S. after the Bolshevik Revolution. He founded the Seversky Aircraft Corp. (later Republic Aviation); helped develop the automatic bombsight, the automatic pilot and in-flight fueling; and built and test-flew a number of advanced fighters and amphibious planes. On the eve of World War II the autocratic Russian clashed with Isolationist Charles Lindbergh by arguing that the Axis could be defeated from the air, then...
Thus a loud, brash, and angry voice cried this week to the U.S. people. The voice belonged to Major Alexander Procofieff ("Sascha") de Seversky, who won all available decorations, and lost his right leg when he flew for his native Russia in World War I (see cut). Sascha de Seversky is now a columnist and author who designed and manufactured military aircraft in the U.S. before he turned to writing. Into a new book, Victory Through Air Power (Simon & Schuster; $2.50), he has crammed much knowledge, enthusiasm, bitterness, and a limitless faith in the airplane. The result is a blast...
Deposed six weeks ago as president of Seversky Aircraft Corp., volatile, hard-flying Major Alexander Procofieff de Seversky was kept on the payroll, last week was in Paris trying to sell airplanes. Meanwhile, the Seversky board, with six years of deficits behind it, met in Manhattan...
...Buck Rogers is 44-year-old Alexander Procofieff ("Sascha") de Seversky but successful head of Seversky Aircraft Corp., famed builder of army planes. A Russian naval flyer who lost a leg in his first World War engagement but recovered later to down 13 German planes, he went to the U. S. on a mission of the Tsar's Government in 1917, never returned to his sovietized land. Long a U. S. citizen, married to a U. S. girl, Alexander de Seversky joined the U. S. Army Air Corps Reserve, rose to the rank of major. In 1931 he organized...
Seversky Aircraft Corp. is named for its 42-year-old founder, president, chief designer and test pilot, Major Alexander Procofieff ("Sascha") de Seversky. A short, slim, kinky-haired Russian, "Sascha" de Seversky became a flyer in the Russian Navy during the War, lost his right leg in his first engagement, came back from the hospital to shoot down 13 German planes. Awarded the highest military honors, he was equally renowned for inventing a combination pontoon and ski which allowed Russian Naval planes to continue in service during winter. Just as the Revolution started, he was appointed to an aviation commission...
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