Ilya Muromets (first four-engine aircraft)
Ilya Muromets (primer avión de cuatro motores)
- Date
- 1913 · confidence high
- Place
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Credited to
- Igor Sikorsky
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A four-engined biplane with an enclosed windowed cabin, toilet and lounge, built by Sikorsky in the Russo-Baltic works. It flew in 1913 and was the first large passenger aircraft and the first heavy bomber.
Sikorsky first built the Russky Vityaz (Le Grand, May 1913), with four engines; the Ilya Muromets, from December 1913, was its improved version. He emigrated to the US in 1919.
What it led to
- airliners and multi-engine bombers
- the Russian aircraft industry before the First World War