Descubra quem realmente merece o título de pai da aviação: Santos-Dumont ou irmãos Wright? A polêmica reacendida por uma ...

While the Wright brothers are widely recognized as the fathers of flight, Brazilians believe the true inventor of the ...

O brasileiro Alberto Santos Dumont é considerado o Pai da Aviação. Ele ganhou esse título porque construiu o 14-Bis, primeira aeronave com motor e hélice que voou por uma distância de 60 m (a 3 m de ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NOVA profiles Alberto Santos-Dumont, a legendary inventor who, at the turn of the 20 th century, inspired a generation of aeronauts to push the limits of their courage and imagination. The program: ...

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 ...