Editor’s Note:

Kyiv’s Museum of Ukrainian Diaspora has a fascinating room devoted to Ihor Sikorsky, the 20^th century aviation pioneer who grew up in Kyiv. At the start, there is Sikorsky in 1913, showing a biplane bomber to a familiar man in a goatee. It’s Czar Nicholas II! At the end there is Sikorsky in 1967 getting a US Medal of Freedom from a familiar man in a business suit. It’s Lyndon Baines Johnson! Thanks to Bolsheviks who offered to shoot him, Sikorsky spent an amazingly productive half-century in the US. Today the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council is leading a public private effort to convert the dilapidated Sikorsky family home on Kyiv’s Yaroslaviv Val into “a world-class aerospace museum.” For more details, read Morgan Williams’ inspiring essay in the Kyiv Post. With Best Regards, James Brooke.