1909年,年仅20岁的伊戈尔·西科尔斯基研制出他的第一架直升机,但它却有一个致命的缺点:无法离开地面。西科尔斯基并没有因此而泄气,30年后他研制出一架真正能飞的直升机,那时他已是飞机制造业中的一名巨匠。西科尔斯基1889年生于基辅,他是家中最小的孩子,其父是俄国的一位名医。他从小就喜爱自然科学,曾在家中的花园里引爆过炸药,有一次 In 1909, Igor Sikorski, 20, developed his first helicopter, but it had a fatal flaw: it was impossible to leave the ground. Sikorski was not discouraged, and 30 years later he developed a truly flyable helicopter that was already a master in the aircraft industry. Sikorski was born in Kiev in 1889, he is the youngest child in the family, his father is a famous doctor in Russia. He loved natural science from an early age and detonated explosives once in his home garden