{"id":552,"date":"2010-11-15T17:58:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T22:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.fredib.com\/wordpress3\/?p=552"},"modified":"2020-12-11T16:56:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:56:28","slug":"igor-sikorsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/aeronautics-2\/igor-sikorsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Igor Sikorsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Igor Sikorsky experimented in building helicopters first in his native Russia and then in the United States.\u00a0 His first successful launching of a direct lift helicopter was on September 14, 1939, in Stratford.\u00a0 Sikorsky built his first helicopter assembly line on South Avenue in Bridgeport after receiving a contract with the U.S. government in the late 1930\u2019s.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sikorsky-in-helicopter-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-764\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12216 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sikorsky-in-helicopter3.jpg\" alt=\"sikorsky-in-helicopter3\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sikorsky-in-helicopter3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sikorsky-in-helicopter3-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sikorsky-in-helicopter3-51x33.jpg 51w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>May 25, 1889 \u2013 October 26, 1972<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Igor Sikorsky experimented in building helicopters first in his native Russia and then in the United States.\u00a0 His first successful launching of a direct lift helicopter was on September 14, 1939, in Stratford.\u00a0 Sikorsky built his first helicopter assembly line on South Avenue in Bridgeport after receiving a contract with the U.S. government in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,35],"tags":[86,126,128],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronautics-2","category-inventors","tag-bridgeport","tag-helicopter","tag-igor-sikorsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12217,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/12217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}