At a lecture hosted by Sikorsky Aircraft, the company that bears his late father Igor’s name, Sergei Sikorsky today recalled attending the air show in the early 1950s, when it was first held at Le Bourget field, here in the northern suburbs of Paris. The show featured an appearance by Charles Lindbergh, who had made the airfield famous by landing at it in 1927, completing his historic trans-Atlantic flight. (Lindbergh and Igor Sikorsky had a long professional collaboration, beginning when Lindbergh was the first pilot of Sikorsky’s pathbreaking S-40 “flying boat.”)

Sergei Sikorsky