Show 11 1 His Life Life a C. C y I of Success q j f Viand and Ruin Flier FIler Carries On 0 1 EW 1 EW Y 1 L Oct 1 NEA NEA- NEA I Life ilfe has b been en a series or ot ups and downs for Igor and that thatis Q is not intended as a pun even cven though he is bound up up with fly- fly ti Ing l f J The point is that a down fhe he alwa always s 's has climbed to an anup anup up up Before the untimely crash of his latest great venture the New York- York Paris plane of Rene llene Fonck Ponck he was asked ed what he would do if his dreams Breams went to smash Ha e another fight for mone money and go goo on h he hg answered And after alter the tragic destruction of his ship he issued the statement state state- statement statement ment We Ve are not discouraged and will continUe our work The dark complexioned young Russian is undergoing the severest smash of his career however because because because be be- cause cause of the deaths of his friend and helper Jacob Islamoff and the radio operator r on his plane 11 Charles Clavier Never before in his career as an aviation engineer have any of his associates been killed The tears he wept when they died welled from personal af- af AN IDEALIST Is the kind of idealist tt to find his slightest worry In the material and financial loss p pf the airship Which had been the darling of his dt dreams earns for more than two years He never was a business man and his c cares les were not tor money ex except except except ex- ex to insure the continuation of his work Even after the recognition recognition and comparative success of recent years cars he lived simply in a small house near the aviation field His manner is disarmingly courteous courteous cour cour- but the mechanics of of his staff give him devoted and andI I deferential attention is 37 and was born at Kiev His family for generations g had sent priest after priest to the lr Russian church But young Igors Igor's mechanical bent would not be tk denied k He went to the navy college e In Petrograd and studied en engineering in Paris When the w war r broke out in 1914 although le Y e e Was as only 25 25 he was at af the top In Russia in aviation design He lie had built planes and kites and as a aboy aboy boy and by 1912 he won a national national national na na- na- na prize with a flying ship GAINED FAME Lt J Building BuIlding- airships Js for the the czar inthe inthe in inthe the war w r each new model odel larger Huger heavier with wider u wing wing g spread pread he made the remarkable ble record of having only one of his fail fall to fly back bac from over the perman German lines And there vere wele 75 of them that scattered bombs on the enemy The I later ones had two or or more motors and his principle of of multiple motors saved mote more than one shell torn plane Success had come so quickly for thi tL young oung man that one might have predicted a down swoop in his it came with the Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian revolution and fled the country leaving his work and andI 1 I his family fortune Then an an- an up France engaged him eagerly to build planes for forr her b fortunes prospered until the war ended Aviation slumped I and he w went went- nt- nt df dJ c Vif out of a a. job came to America seven ye ears ear irs ago At first he worked ed for forI forthe forthe the government a huge bomber at t 0 O. The plane I received flattering praise but it was was' newel never built i STARTED t Disappointed Disappointed the engineer started out on his own Some friends he knew In m Russia starvIng Russia starving counts and major majOl generals joined generals joined with him to build airships airship The initial up paid-up capital of the company was vas about SOO Some of their tools were made from junked automobile au automobile au- au fenders The more loyal mechanics took their pay at 15 a aday day day in in stock But they built ahead and gradually g people with money became interested among among- i f t 1 I x t. t T w Y IGOR them the Russian Hussian compo composer cr Rach Rach- The first plane turned out the out the flopped Yorktown flopped to a crash in the rough lough of a golf course on its trial flight Its motors couldn't support its us gerat weight The rhe builder got more powerful po engines and eventually the plane flew more than miles and established the name of That ship gave way in interest to the thereat great reat conception for the trans-Atlantic trans flight Now that it has crashed clashed wh what t next Kip Kipling talks about the man who can see the things he gave his life to build broken and start to toI build again with worn out tools I next next of of course will build more moie airships |