You're Wrong, It's Poturistic -- Just as bleriot gave birth to long distance flying by crossing the channel in as frail a looking craft as this so Igor I. Sikorsky, aeronautical engineer, seen in midair in a vertical lift flying machine of his own design, has hopes that his windmill plane may be the steed of the flying cavalryman of tomorrow - with each soldier equipped to rise and descend vertically. Sikorsky Rose, descend turned and moved forward at will in demonstrating his helicopter at Bridgeport Conn. U.S. June 10, 1940. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).