Talk:Igor Bensen

Birthplace ambiguity
Igor Bensen's on-line biography says he was born in Rostov, Russia. However, this could be Rostov-on-Don or Rostov Veliky. Based on the descriptions of the two cities in Wikipedia, and the fact that Igor's father worked within the Russian Agricultural Department, I think Rostov-on-Don is the more likely location. &mdash;QuicksilverT @ 23:33, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Questions

 * 1) As the article currently is written, it says Bensen "... eventually reached the United States in the late 1940s ...", but the bio at http://www.gyroplanepassion.com/Igor_Bensen.html says he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree (presumably in mechanical engineering) from Stevens Institute [of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey] in 1940.  How can this be, unless it was by correspondence?  This doesn't add up.  (In 1940 Bensen was 23 years old, so the age for achieving a Bachelor of Science degree after a four- or five-year course of study would have been about right.)
 * 2) The last name "Bensen" isn't a Russian name.  Did he have a different surname at birth, changing it once he arrived in the United States?
 * 3) I've found articles attributed to him, using the middle initial "B".  What was his middle name? &mdash; QuicksilverT @ 17:18, 3 May 2012 (UTC)