Santos Dumont is one of the few aviation pioneers ... Following this passion he was set to Paris at the age of eighteen to studied physics, chemistry and electricity and soon became interested ...

Santos Dumont then made his formal entry at the Aero ... at the drill grounds of Issy les Moulineaux, on the outskirts of Paris, with the posts planted and the official timekeepers present.

Alberto Santos-Dumont’s 14 Bis had three distinctly different ... out to a field at the Bagatelle, just outside Paris, France, and lifted gently into the sky…well, “sky” such as it is ...

The inventor was born in 1873 on Cabangu farm, in a town in Minas Gerais, Palmira, today Santos-Dumont, and began to take an interest in balloons in 1888, upon seeing one of them in São Paulo. In 1892 ...

Santos Dumont chega a Paris, após concluir um curso em Bristol, na Inglaterra O que mais o fascinava era o voo dos pássaros. Passava tardes inteiras observando-os e fazendo experiências com ...

Antes do avião, Santos Dumont já havia espantado o público ao contornar a Torre Eiffel, em Paris, com seu dirigível Nº 6, em 1901. Dumont também destacou-se, posteriormente, pelo Demoiselle ...

Santos-Dumont designed 14-bis, a pine-frame biplane with a 24-horsepower Antoinette motorboat engine, and he made several flights in it before crowds outside Paris. Technically, his first flight ...

Ao longo dos anos, Santos Dumont ficou conhecido como 'Pai da Aviação' por ter sido o homem que fascinou o mundo com sua ...

No início do século XX o jovem Alberto Santos Dumont chega a Paris para acompanhar o tratamento de saúde do pai. Em pouco tempo se envolve na disputa pela construção de aparelhos voadores ...