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Airplanes, women, and song : memoirs of a fighter ace, test pilot, and adventurer / Boris Sergievsky ; edited by Allan Forsyth and Adam Hochschild.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sergievskii, Boris Vasil'evich, 1888-1971, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sergievskii, Boris Vasil'evich, 1888-1971.
- Sergievskii, Boris Vasil'evich.
- Air pilots--United States--Biography.
- Air pilots.
- Air pilots--Russia (Federation)--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Boris Sergievsky was one of the most colorful of the early aviators.He made his first flight less than ten years after the Wright brothers made theirs; he made his last only four years before the Concorde took off.Born in Russia, Sergievsky learned to fly in 1912.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Out of the Blue
- OUT OF THE BLUE
- The Memoirs
- 1. A RUSSIAN YOUTH
- Loves and a Marriage
- Sikorsky I: The Russian Years
- More Loves, Another Marriage
- 2. WAR IN THE MOUNTAINS
- A War of Movement
- An Austrian Defeat
- Hilltop Battlefields
- While Rome Burned
- The Unknown War
- John Reed Sees the Russian Retreat
- 3. WAR IN THE AIR
- The Air War in the East
- The Other Side
- 4. REVOLUTION AND UPHEAVAL
- Sergievsky: An Ace for the Tsar?
- The War Winds Down
- The Russian Civil War
- A Letter of Recommendation
- 5. ON TO NEW WORLDS
- Sikorsky II: Starting Afresh in America
- Russian Contributions to American Aviation
- The Problems of Flying in Colombia
- High Life at the Sergievskys' Villa
- Sergievsky, Lindbergh, and the Sikorsky S-36
- Sergievsky and the Hamilton Metalplane
- 6. FLYING FOR SIKORSKY OVER TWO CONTINENTS
- The Sikorsky S-38
- An Admiring Poet
- The Sikorsky S-40
- Sikorsky III: The Dream Comes True
- A Test Pilot's Report
- 7. FLIGHT OVER AFRICA
- Hollywood Meets Africa
- The Sikorsky S-39
- Running on Empty over the Jungle
- 8. FROM A WORLD'S FAIR TO WORLD RECORDS
- The Sikorsky S-42
- Flying On
- FLYING ON
- Chief Test Pilot
- The Sikorsky S-43
- Sergievsky, de Bothezat, and the Helicopter Corporation of America
- Yet Another Divorce, Yet Another Marriage
- Sergievsky Goes to War Again
- Sergievsky's Women
- The Mallard Years, 1946-1965
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8156-0409-2
- OCLC:
- 1017004402
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