이고르 시코르스키

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이고르 이바노비치 시코르스키(Igor’ Ivanovich Sikorsky,러시아어: Игорь Иванович Сикорский, 우크라이나어: Ігор Іванович Сікорський, 1889년 5월 25일 ~ 1972년 10월 26일)는 러시아계 미국인으로 회전익기와 고정익기 두 항공기 분야의 선구자이다.

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was a Russian-American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the Sikorsky S-2, the second aircraft of his design and construction. His fifth airplane, the S-5, won him national recognition and F.A.I. pilot's license number 64. His S-6-A received the highest award at the 1912 Moscow Aviation Exhibition, and in the fall of that year the aircraft won first prize for its young designer, builder and pilot in the military competition at Saint Petersburg. In 1913, the Sikorsky-designed Russky Vityaz (S-21) became the first successful four-engine aircraft to take flight. He also designed and built the Ilya Muromets family of four-engine aircraft, an airliner which he redesigned to be the world's first four-engine bomber when World War I broke out.