Ninety-five years ago today, the Sikorsky S-42 took flight for the first time, marking a new era in transoceanic aviation. Developed for Pan American World Airways, the Flying Clipper was designed ...

Flying boats opened up travel destinations around the world—then they went to war Dave Kindy A Sikorsky S-43 banks near Galveston, Texas, in 1993. Nicknamed the “baby clipper,” it was a ...

The last surviving VS-44A “Flying Boat,” built in 1941 and lovingly restored by volunteers at Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. over the past decade, made a cautious transit up I-91 in the pre-dawn ...

Jul. 8—Sikorsky's lead executive in Stratford discussed the project in June, evoking the potential impact of the program to the Army's Predator unmanned aerial vehicle, during a forum sponsored ...

Sikorsky Looks to Enter eVTOL Industry with Eye-Catching Tilt-Wing Design The manufacturer’s HEX testbed and demonstrator aircraft will help it evaluate a future family of large, self-flying ...

The Sikorsky S-42 or the “Flying Clipper” was a commercial flying boat designed and built by Sikorsky Aircraft to meet requirements for a long-range flying boat laid out by Pan Am in 1931.

With Sikorsky's nephew, Jimmy Viner, at the controls, the tail rotor failed at an altitude of 23 m (75 ft). Viner crash-landed and neither he, nor his observer were injured, but the aircraft suffered ...

•Boat Show Attendees Invited to Board the Sikorsky S-76® Appointed with One of the Company’s Exclusive Red Label™ by Flexjet Interiors •Luxury Helicopter to Be Located Alongside Some of ...

The younger Sikorsky recalls at age six or seven watching ground mechanics work the hand crank engine start on an S-40 Clipper flying boat. “You can never forget that sound and that sight,” he ...