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In the meantime, Santos-Dumont briefly recaptured headlines when he hopped his first airplane, the 14-bis, in Paris in 1906. The heroes of St. Louis stuck with the dirigible as long as they could.
On 3 December 1928, a Dornier Do J seaplane named after the Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos Dumont crashed into Guanabara Bay, Brazil, during the c...
Alberto Santos-Dumont. Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932), the son of a wealthy Brazilian coffee farmer, arrived in Paris in 1897 to study engineering. Fascinated by flight, he made headlines piloting a series of small powered airships around Paris, becoming one of the Air Age’s first true celebrities.
Nov 23, 2003 · Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian aeronautical pioneer living in Paris a century ago chased the same dream as his contemporaries, America's Wright Brothers: manned flight in a motor-driven aircraft.
Apr 5, 2024 · Alberto Santos-Dumont (born July 20, 1873, Cabangu, near Palmyra [now Santos-Dumont], Minas Gerais, Braz.—died July 23, 1932, Guarujá, São Paulo) 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.
On October 21, the National Air and Space Museum will celebrate the 100th anniversary of a first flight. Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian who spent his adult life in France, was the pilot of ...
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 his 1909 ...
