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Igor Sikorsky

Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972), the Russian aircraft designer

person, academic, aviator, designer, inventor, aerospace engineer, award winner, Christian, human being, organisation or other legal person that is the designer of an aircraft, company founder, Gemini person

Legal name, Full name: "Igor Sikorsky"
Born: ▶
1889, May 1889, May 25th 1889, Europe, Ukraine, …
the world, Kyiv, Russian Empire, eastern Europe, the Northern Hemisphere, Kiev Oblast, eastern european time region, Eurasia, Africa-Eurasia, US postal Group 4, the UK European postal area
Died: ▶
1972; October 1972; October 26th 1972; the United States; North America; …
Connecticut; New England; the world; the Americas; Northeastern United States; the Connecticut 203 telephone code area; the Northern Hemisphere; the Tri-State Region; Fairfield County, CT; Stratford, Connecticut; Easton, Connecticut; the area using the NANP; the US dollar zone; the continental United States; the contiguous United States; the EST/EDT region; the G8; North America
Occupation: engineer
Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sikorsky
Won: National Medal of Science
Gender: male
Nationality: russian, american
Residence: Kyiv
Educated: Kiev Polytechnic Institute
Designer of: ▶
F4U Corsair, Sikorsky R-4, Sikorsky Ilya Muromets, Sikorsky S-42, Sikorsky VS-44, …
Sikorsky Russky Vityaz
Last Name: "Sikorsky"
First Name: "Igor"
Founded: Sikorsky Aircraft
Organisations: Ukrainians
Inventor of: helicopter
Main Occupation: engineering services business
Age at Death: 83 years, 5 months and 1 day old
Name-source of: Sikorsky Aircraft, Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Bridge, Sikorsky, 10090 Sikorsky
Class: ▶
person; Christian; aerospace engineer; aviator; designer; …
academic; Gemini person; company founder; award winner; human being, organisation or other legal person that is the designer of an aircraft; inventor
Did: die (1972)
Religion: Russian Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church
Born During: January 1st 1880, 00:00 - December 31st 1889, 23:59
Died During: 1970s
Attributes: male, Russian, Poles, Ukrainians, russian
Freebase ID: "/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000015a934"
Related Websites: ▶
http://books.google.com/books?id=vdkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA380&dq=defiant&hl=en&ei=Aud5TOmcGoqonQehs9mWCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFUQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=defiant&f=true; http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8202766; http://www.transatlanticflightpby.com; http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=177175; http://voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2002-03/a-2002-03-22-9-1.cfm?CFID=27800452&CFTOKEN=50694402; …
http://neam.org/cont_about.htm; http://www.time.com/time/magazine/archive/covers/0,16641,1101531116,00.html; http://www.sikorskyarchives.com; http://www.sikorsky.com/details/0,3036,CLI1_DIV69_ETI683,00.html; http://www.ctheritage.org/encyclopedia/ctsince1929/sikorsky.htm; http://www.alexanderpalace.org/aerialrussia
DBPedia URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Igor_Sikorsky
Birthday: the 25th of May
Quotes: "The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork."
Freebase Primary MID: "/m/01cb9n"

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