{"id":10515769,"date":"2026-08-08T13:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=10515769"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:16:17","slug":"sikorsky-ilya-muromets-first-four-engine-bomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/sikorsky-ilya-muromets-first-four-engine-bomber\/","title":{"rendered":"Der Riese, der vor den K\u00e4mpfern flog"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><p>In 1913, while the rest of the world was still coaxing flimsy single-engine biplanes into the air for a few shaky minutes, a 24-year-old Russian rolled out an aircraft with four engines, a heated passenger lounge, electric lighting, and a washroom. It was called the Ilya Muromets, after a giant of Russian folklore. The name fit.<\/p><p>It was the world&rsquo;s first four-engine airliner &mdash; and within two years it had become the world&rsquo;s first four-engine heavy bomber, an aircraft so tough that German fighter pilots learned to leave it alone.<\/p><p>Its designer, Igor Sikorsky, would later flee revolution, emigrate to America, and give his name to the helicopter. But his first masterpiece was this giant &mdash; a machine a full generation ahead of everything around it.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 22px;margin:22px 0;border-radius:8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.03em;color:#5C91FF;text-transform:uppercase\">Kurzinfo<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px\"><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Flugzeug<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Sikorsky Ilya Muromets (S-22 and later)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Designer<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Igor Sikorsky, RBVZ, St Petersburg<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Erster Flug<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">December 1913<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Anspruch auf Ber\u00fchmtheit<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">World&rsquo;s first four-engine airliner, then first four-engine bomber<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Onboard luxuries<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Heated cabin, electric lighting, the first airborne toilet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Aufzeichnungen aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">~400 sorties, 65 tons of bombs, only one lost to enemy fighters<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Gebaut<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Roughly 80<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A flying ship with a lounge<\/h2><p>Sikorsky did not set out to build a weapon. The original Ilya Muromets was a luxury airliner, and its cabin was unlike anything else in the sky: an insulated passenger saloon with wicker chairs, a private compartment with a bed and table, heating piped from the engine exhausts, electric lights powered by a wind generator, and the first lavatory ever carried aloft. Passengers could even walk to the rear of the cabin and look out of proper windows.<\/p><p>Most astonishing of all, the wings were strong and broad enough that mechanics could climb out of the fuselage and walk along them to tend the engines in flight. On 11 February 1914 the aircraft took sixteen people into the air at once &mdash; a world record. That summer it flew from St Petersburg to Kiev and back, more than 1,000 kilometres each way, a feat no other aircraft on Earth could match.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/igor-sikorsky-russobalt.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"flex-shrink:0\"><img data-opt-id=236288626  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/igor-sikorsky-russobalt.jpg\" alt=\"Igor Sikorsky\" style=\"width:96px;height:96px;border-radius:50%;object-fit:cover;object-position:center;display:block;border:2px solid #ddd\"><\/a><div><em>&ldquo;The 1,600-mile flight proved conclusively the value of large multi-motored airplanes. The Army placed an order for ten four-engined airplanes of the Ilya Muromets type, and the factory personnel was overjoyed.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Igor Sikorsky<\/strong> &mdash; Designer of the Ilya Muromets<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=625747346  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/sikorsky-ilya-muromets-airliner-1914.jpg\" alt=\"Sikorsky Ilya Muromets, 1914\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Ilya Muromets in its original guise: a four-engine airliner with a heated, lit cabin. In February 1914 it carried sixteen people aloft, a world record. Photo: public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>The clip below captures just how far ahead of its time this machine was &mdash; including those men strolling along the wings mid-flight.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VCSN9Y9iOaw\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Named after Russia&rsquo;s most beloved folkloric hero, the Ilya Muromets was unveiled to the public in a spectacular series of demonstration flights.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Scott W. Palmer<\/strong> &mdash; Historian, &ldquo;Dictatorship of the Air&rdquo; (2006)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The first heavy bomber<\/h2><p>Then war came. Sikorsky redesigned his airliner into the &ldquo;Military&rdquo; Ilya Muromets, and in December 1914 Russia formed the world&rsquo;s first dedicated heavy-bomber unit around it &mdash; the Squadron of Flying Ships. Its first raid fell on German positions in February 1915.<\/p><p>The bomber carried internal racks for up to 800 kilograms of bombs and bristled with defensive machine guns. In 1916 it became the first aircraft in history to mount a tail-gunner position &mdash; a solution to the fighter&rsquo;s favourite blind-spot attack that heavy bombers would still be using in 1945. Its engines were even fitted with thin armour plate.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1466147825  decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/sikorsky-ilya-muromets-tail-gun.jpg\" alt=\"Ilya Muromets tail gun position\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The rear of an Ilya Muromets bomber. In 1916 it became the first aircraft in history to carry a tail gunner. Photo: public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kS4kjuHen3E\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Almost impossible to shoot down<\/h2><p>The result was a bomber that was genuinely hard to kill. German pilots were reluctant to attack the Muromets: its overlapping gun positions could put fire in almost every direction, and small fighters that closed in found themselves tossed about by the propeller wash of four big engines.<\/p><p>The record speaks for itself. Across the entire war, only a single Ilya Muromets was shot down by enemy aircraft &mdash; and it took three of the four German fighters attacking it with it before it fell. The type flew roughly 400 sorties and dropped 65 tons of bombs, pioneering night bombing, group raids and photographic damage assessment along the way.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7BTSRRWrjVM\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p>By 1918 the fleet was worn out and revolution had engulfed Russia. Sikorsky left for the United States with almost nothing, and built a second and third career in flying boats and helicopters. But the giant he created in 1913 had already written the template for the heavy bomber &mdash; four engines, a defended tail, and the reach to strike far behind the lines. Everyone else spent the next thirty years catching up.<\/p><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:24px\">Sources: Sikorsky Ilya Muromets (Wikipedia); Igor Sikorsky, &ldquo;The Story of the Winged-S&rdquo; (1938\/1952); Scott W. Palmer, &ldquo;Dictatorship of the Air&rdquo; (Cambridge University Press, 2006); K. N. Finne, &ldquo;Igor Sikorsky: The Russian Years.&rdquo;<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">\u00c4hnliche Beitr\u00e4ge<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/the-an-225-mriya-the-largest-aircraft-ever-built\/\">Die An-225 Mriya: Das gr\u00f6\u00dfte jemals gebaute Flugzeug<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/the-1929-giant-with-twelve-engines\/\">Der Riese von 1929 mit zw\u00f6lf Motoren<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1913 baute Igor Sikorsky ein viermotoriges Passagierflugzeug mit Lounge und Toilette \u2013 und machte daraus den weltweit ersten schweren Bomber, der fast unm\u00f6glich abzuschie\u00dfen 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