Labels:text | human face | man | book | person | collectable OCR: A B IGOR SIKORSKY started to design a real model. 1889-1972 During the 1917 Revolution in Russia, Sikorsky fled to the United F States and set up his own company G in Connecticut. In 1939 he built H the VS-300, the first helicopter to I have the modem configuration of K one main rotor and a tail rotor. It made its inaugural flight on M September 14 of that year. N Although others before him, such P as the Spanish Juan de la Cierva, Q and the German Heinrich Focke, R A ERONAUTICAL ENGINEER Igor had built helicopters of some sort, S Sikorsky was born in Kiev, Sikorsky's was the first really Ukraine. Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's 15th-century drawing of a practical model and was the first T made for mass production. 11 helicopter, Sikorsky built a working W toy helicopter at the age of 12. In 1908, convinced that the future Y of aircraft lay with vertical flight, he Helicopter 7 M
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