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Santos-Dumont's 1906 claim to flight has never been seriously disputed, although few authorities credit his as the first, while some have questioned the effectiveness of his controls.
Many Brazilians credit Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made the first public flight in Europe three years after the Wrights flew at Kitty Hawk, simply because his aircraft sported wheels, while...
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Dec 13, 2016 · Backers of Santos-Dumont claim the 1906 public demonstrations were the first powered flights because his wheeled craft took off unassisted unlike the Wright Flyer, which was launched off...
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Jul 8, 2014 · Two years after Alberto Santos-Dumont’s public powered takeoffs in a wheeled aircraft in October 1906, ten months after Henri Farman flew a one-kilometer circle in France, three months...
In 1906 Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont made the first significant flights of a powered airplane in Europe with his No. 14-bis.
Oct 23, 2006 · One hundred years ago Monday Santos-Dumont set off an argument that still rages when he launched, flew, and landed a boxy biplane christened "14bis" above a field in France. In Brazil, where he...
Alberto Santos-Dumont, self-stylized as Alberto Santos=Dumont, [1] (20 July 1873 – 23 July 1932) was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, [2] [3] and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers ...
