Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled domestic flight from Dacca to Faridpur in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) operated by a Sikorsky S-61 twin-engined helicopter of Pakistan International Airlines. On 2 February 1966 the helicopter operating the flight crashed near Fardipur after an oil leak developed and the main gearbox ...
Sikorsky Aircraft is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Stratford, Connecticut.It was established by the Russian-American aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky in 1923, and was among the first companies to manufacture helicopters for civilian and military use.
Sikorsky S-55/H-19 Chickasaw The museum's S-55 / H-19B (52-7573) was donated in a package deal by the H. H. Ellis Technical School in Danielson, Connecticut. This S-55B was restored over the course of 6 / 7 years by museum volunteers and was completed by the end of 2018.
Igor Sikorsky's first helicopter success in Stratford on September 14, 1939 is documented as well as his subsequent productions. [2] Also displayed are the small gas turbine engines developed locally by Dr. Anselm Franz at Avco Lycoming which power such helicopters as the Bell Helicopter UH-1 Iroquois or Huey and the Boeing CH-47 Chinook.
September 6 – National Aircraft Show (Dayton, Ohio, United States) – Marine pilot Major William T. Tebow was injured when the Sikorsky helicopter he was flying "brushed rotor blades" with another helicopter and crash-landed. Tebow was flying in formation when the accident occurred. [206]
Westland-Sikorsky WS-51 Mk.1A Civil transport helicopter powered by a 520 hp (388 kW) Alvis Leonides 521/1 radial piston engine, 36 built. Westland-Sikorsky WS-51 Mk.1B Civil transport helicopter powered by a 450 hp (336 kW) Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior B4 radial piston engine, 15 built.
On 4 July 1943, a Liberator II aircraft crashed off Gibraltar shortly after takeoff, killing all but one of the seventeen people on board. Among the victims were several senior Polish military leaders, including General Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
The Stratford Army Engine Plant.. The Stratford Army Engine Plant (SAEP) was a U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command installation and manufacturing facility located in Stratford, Connecticut, where it was sited along the Housatonic River and Main Street, opposite Sikorsky Memorial Airport.