Project Warrior - Igor Sikorsky

Project Warrior - Igor Sikorsky Air Force Now CU Igor Sikorsky tombstone & son at grave of aviation engineer. CU son & early plane model in foreground 13:14:12 WWI firing guns & explosions, soldiers out of trenches. Stills: Igor Sikorsky, first prototype biplane bomber, headlines, wmen throw flowers at soldiers. Storming of Winter Palace, pile of guns. Orthodox priest. Russian palace on fire (staged). 13:15:02 Waves crashing on rocks, immigrants, Statue of Liberty. Stills: biplane in front of small hangar with sign ‘Sikorsky”, building plane in garden. Pilots in front of plane. All-metal twin-engine airliner. 13:15:32 Film of pushing out S-38 amphibious plane, taking off. Sikorsky at new plant in Stratford, Connecticut with Lindbergh. Large S-40 amphibious plane in flight, view from plane, interior S-40 cockpit with control panel, S-40 on water. 13:15:58 Sikorsky’s son talks of Sikorsky’s first interest, helicopters, stemming from Leonardo da Vinci & reading Jules Verne. Da Vinci early helicopter sketch. 13:16:39 Early helicopter failed experiments. 13:16:51 Aged Sikorsky talks re helicopter. Sikorsky pilots early helicopter VS-300 (B/W & COL). Early helicopter lands on water. 13:18:18 Pearl Harbor & newspaper headlines. XR-4 first army helicopter in flight & inside, flies around Capitol. Various WWII locations & uses, rescue helicopter, large helicopter. 13:19:19 Helicopter lifts up house. Reaches boat on fire at sea. Lifting wounded? man. Drops food in Africa as people on ground run to collect. Lifting man on rope. Igor Sikorsky out of plane w/ General in uniform. Still Sikorsky as old man. Helicopter aerobatics & in Vietnam (?) Aviation Inventions; Inventors; Helicopter Stunts;