Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition The Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition was established in 1980 by the American Helicopter Society (AHS) International. The award, the AHS Sikorsky Prize, was given for the first human powered helicopter (HPH) to meet a set of extremely challenging flight requirements. In summary, the requirements to win the AHS Sikorsky Prize included a flight duration of 60 seconds and reaching an altitude of , with the center point of the aircraft hovering over a square. In 2013, 33 years after the competition was established, the award was officially declared won when
Sikorsky Russky Vityaz Sikorsky Russky Vityaz The Sikorsky Russky Vityaz (), or Russian Knight, previously known as the Bolshoi Baltisky () "(The Great Baltic)" in its first four-engined version, was the first four-engine aircraft in the world, designed by Igor Sikorsky and built at the Russian Baltic Railroad Car Works ("Russo-Baltiiskyi Vagonnyi Zavod" or "R-BVZ") in Saint Petersburg in early 1913. Sikorsky conceived the S-21 design in 1911, when no known aircraft could lift more than . The carrying capacity record belonged to the French pilot Ducis, who had flown with a load of . On hearing about the construction of the "Russky