Alberto Santos-Dumont’s 14 Bis had three distinctly different sets of controls, which provided the aircraft’s stability. Courtesy Dan Hagedorn On October 21, the National Air and Space Museum will ...

As Americans celebrate the 101st anniversary of the Wright brother's first flight, a whole country is cringing at what it believes to be a historical injustice against one of its most beloved heroes.

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) designated the birthplace of Alberto Santos-Dumont in Cabangu, Minas Gerais, Brazil, as a Historic Aerospace Site on Sept. 13. Brazil's ...

A piece of sculpture holding a preserved human heart was a new feature of Rio de Janeiro last week. The heart thus honored was that of Brazil’s pioneer aviator, Alberto Santos-Dumont, who at Bagatelle ...

This thoroughly entertaining history of one of the currently overlooked heroes from early–20th-century aviation equals that of Hoffman's earlier volume, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers. Almost unknown ...

At the height of his career, the pioneering aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont believed that flight could be a pathway to world peace, enabling people to reflect on the all-too-human world below and ...

A animação Mentes Brilhantes mostra a controvérsia entre Santos Dumont e os irmãos Wright sobre a invenção dos primeiros protótipos do avião no episódio desta sexta (15), às 17h, na TV Brasil. A série ...

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Although Santos-Dumont's successful lift-off in 1906 took place three years after the Wright Brothers' flight, the Brazilian inventor performed the first public flight in Europe. Griffith conveys both ...

THE death at Säo Paulo, Brazil, on July 23, of M. Alberto Santos-Dumont, at the age of fifty-nine years, removes another of the few remaining pioneers through whose efforts mechanical flight was ...