Sikorsky-The Early Years
I believe that all who have had the honor to work with Sergei would share your thoughts.
Just one anecdote:
In the early 1970's we had a one-of-a-kind protoptype called the S-67. We took it on a tour of the UK, Germany and Iran. While at Buckeburg, I had the opportunity to give Sergei a familiarization flight in the aircraft, which included the entire standard envelope for that aircraft: 200 kts, rolls and split S, and load factor to 3.5 G. Anyhow we landed after about 45 minutes of that stuff and shut down. Sergei got out, beaming, and kind of sidled me off toward the tail of the ship, out of earshot of all of the onlookers. In a low voice, he says, " John, that was terrific, and you know, I think its better than sex" . When he saw the "rolling my eyeballs" reaction to that he continued, " yes, because you can do that all day".