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Apr 5, 2024 · Santos-Dumont achieved one of the highpoints of his career on the afternoon of Oct. 19, 1901, when he won the 100,000-franc Deutsch Prize for an 11.3-km (7-mile) flight with his airship No. 6 from the Paris suburb of St. Cloud to the Eiffel Tower and back in less than half an hour.
Santos-Dumont brought the No.9, which was his smallest airship, to the U.S. to compete the at 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. It was damaged during shipping, which Santos-Dumont thought was sabotage, so he refused to fly during his visit to the U.S.
Sep 4, 2023 · Alberto Santos-Dumont is regarded as a national hero in Brazil thanks to his pioneering works in early aviation. Airports, museums, avenues, and more are named after him. One does not have to look further than Rio de Janeiro's Santos-Dumont Airport (SDU), which is the major airport serving this iconic city.
After arriving in St. Louis to great fanfare, Santos-Dumont’s airship No. 7 was left overnight in the fair’s aeronautical concourse hangar. The next morning the silk envelope was found...
Not at of Santos Dumont's airship adventures ended well. During a flight in 1901, he collided with a tall building and had to be rescued. Santos Dumont tests the controls of his first aircraft with it suspended from his No. 14 airship. Santos Dumont obtained a 50 hp engine and on 13 September 1906, flew the 14 bis for the first time.
Oct 19, 2010 · And Brazilian-born Alberto Santos-Dumont, the most famous airman in France, was ready with his airship No. 6.
- Tony Reichhardt
On May 16, 1904, however, the Exposition Committee on Aeronautics was thrown into consternation when Santos-Dumont cabled from Paris: Lost sixty horse power engine. Only able to get forty. Airship tried yesterday. Only goes less than twenty miles (per hour). Cannot race until speed condition is cut down to fifteen miles per hour.
