El Gigante De La Aviación Fue Destruido En Segundos I Trágica Catástrofe

Igor Sikorsky was 24 years old when he built the first four-engine airplane in history, the Russky Vityaz, in the workshops of the Russo-Baltic Company in St. Petersburg in 1913. The aircraft made 53 flights, set a world record for endurance, and was inspected by Tsar Nicholas II, but it was destroyed on the ground by the engine of another aircraft that fell onto its wing. Sikorsky did not repair it: he built the Ilya Muromets, the world's first strategic bomber, which flew more than 400 missions in World War I. The 1917 revolution forced him to flee Russia with $600 in his pocket, and in a chicken coop on Long Island, he founded the company that decades later would produce the first practical helicopter in the United States, the VS-300. The photos used in this video are from archive.org and are in the public domain. @AlaLoca 00:00 An engine falls from the sky and destroys the world's largest airplane 01:00 Sikorsky was 24 years old and had built the impossible 02:00 From a rubber band helicopter in kyiv to changing aviation 03:00 A mosquito in the carburetor that changed everything forever 04:00 Shidlovsky orders the construction of the world's largest airplane 05:00 The Grand takes off when no one believed it was possible 06:00 An enclosed cockpit with a balcony that no airplane had ever had 07:00 A 700-meter runway and the giant leaves the ground 08:00 Four engines in line, a configuration that changed aviation 09:00 Tsar Nicholas II boards and presents a gold watch 10:00 A foreign engine falls and Sikorsky decides to build something even bigger 11:00 The Ilya Muromets has heating, a bedroom, and the first flying toilet 12:00 16 Passengers and a dog take off in an unprecedented feat 1:00 PM The assassination in Sarajevo turns the civilian plane into a bomber 2:00 PM The first strategic bomber squadron in history 3:00 PM British and French buy the license for Sikorsky's design 4:00 PM The Bolshevik Revolution turns Sikorsky's fame into a death sentence 5:00 PM Shidlovsky executed and Russian aviation ceases to exist 6:00 PM Sikorsky arrives in America with $600 and without speaking English 7:00 PM Rachmaninov signs a check that saves the company 8:00 PM From luxury seaplanes to childhood obsession with vertical flight 9:00 PM The VS 300 lifts off the ground with Sikorsky at the controls 10:00 PM A machine that shook but flew vertically 11:00 PM The R 4 becomes the first mass-produced helicopter in history 12:00 AM Sikorsky holds The model of the only airplane that no longer exists 25:00 The boy from kyiv who forever changed how humanity flies