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Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian aviation pioneer who captured the imagination of Europe and the United States with his airship flights and made the first significant flight of a powered airplane in Europe with his No. 14-bis.
In this companion Web site to the NOVA program Wings of Madness, read about Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont's first experience with balloon flight, take an audio tour of...
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Tour the Demoiselle. Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont dreamed of making flight accessible to the general public. In 1907, he unveiled a design he hoped would meet this goal:...
At age 17, Alberto Santos-Dumont was sent to France to receive a technical education. It is at this time that he became fascinated with the subject of aeronautics. In 1898, he made a successful ascent over Paris in the first of many lighter-than-air ships of his own design.
In 1904, Europeans appeared to lead the way in human flight. The exploits of aviation pioneers Otto Lilienthal, Alberto Santos-Dumont, and Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin were well known in the...
