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Early "Le Grand" version with two engines. The Sikorsky Russky Vityaz (Russian: Русский витязь), or Russian Knight (S-21), previously known as the Bolshoi Baltisky (Russian: Большой Балтийский) (The Great Baltic) in its first four-engined version, [1] was the first four-engine aircraft in the world, designed by Igor Sikorsky and built at the Russian Baltic ...
Los Angeles Airways Flight 417 was a Sikorsky S-61 helicopter that crashed on August 14, 1968 in the city of Compton, California. All eighteen passengers and three crew members were killed. The aircraft was destroyed by impact and fire. According to the National Transportation Safety Board the probable cause of the accident was fatigue failure ...
In January 1949, a Sikorsky S-51 crashed off the terminal annex post office in Downtown Los Angeles, killing pilot Harry Slemmons, 27. [10]On July 2, 1951, a Sikorsky S-51 crashed in an orange grove between Pomona, California and Ontario, fatally injuring pilot John De Blau, 29, and civil aeronautics inspector, Wyman Ellis Jr., 44, both of Los Angeles.
Russky Vityaz. The Ilya Muromets (Sikorsky S-22) was designed and constructed by Igor Sikorsky at the Russo-Baltic Carriage Factory (RBVZ) in Saint Petersburg in 1913. [7] It was based on his earlier S-21 Russky Vityaz, which started out as the twin-engined Le Grand, then as the twin tandem-engined Bolshoi Baltisky before placing all four of the Baltisky's engines in a tractor configuration ...
22 May – Sikorsky S-61L N303Y, operating Los Angeles Airways Flight 841, suffers a mechanical failure in flight which allows the rotor blades to collide with the aircraft's fuselage. It crashes at Paramount, California , killing all 23 people on board.
View from the Window at Le Gras (French: Point de vue du Gras) 1826 Nicéphore Niépce: Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France Bitumen-coated pewter plate Considered the oldest surviving camera photograph. [1] [s 1] [s 2] [s 3] [s 4] Windows From Inside South Gallery [a] August 1835 William Henry Fox Talbot: Lacock, England, United Kingdom Photogenic ...
Good Mother Gallery recently opened its Los Angeles arm near the 6th Street Bridge after starting in Oakland in 2014 with a community-centric ethos.
Le Grand may refer to: Places. Le Grand, California; Le Grand, Iowa; People. Le Grand Henderson, American author; Other. Le Grand, another name for Sikorsky Russky Vityaz, the first four-engine aircraft in the world built in Russia by Sikorski