Alberto Santos-Dumont
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Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air
Santos-Dumont in 1902
Henrique Dumont
Francisca de Paula Santos
Santos-Dumont during his teenager years, 1890s
The Wright Brothers were the first to achieve sustained, controlled, powered heavier-than-air manned flight in 1903, the longest of four covering 852 feet. Several other aviators have claimed to be th
Alberto Santos-Dumont
…body, and the first of their kind recognised by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Santos-Dumont is a national hero in Brazil, where it is popularly held that he preceded the Wright brothers in demonstrating a practical aeroplane. Numerous roads, plazas, schools, monuments, and airports there are dedicated to him, and his name is inscribed…
The du Temple monoplane
A replica of the Ezekiel Airship, which is claimed to have flown in Pittsburg, Texas, in 1902, although there is no physical evidence to support such a claim.
The Avion III
The illustration that accompanied the claim in the Bridgeport Herald