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Why does the article state that 'in Brazil' he is regarded as the first one ?

I mean, we all learnt everywhere in the world (but maybe in the US :D) that Santos-Dumont was the first one to fly a plane. It's the case in Brazil but also in France for instance. It sounds very weird and factually wrong to state that this is only the opinion of brazilian people, while it's a widely established fact... 94.252.121.252 (talk) 14:24, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

You are clearly deluded, or had a very flaky education. It is generally accepted that the Wright Brothers were the first to make a sustained controlled flight (In 1903), altho there are of course a few lost souls who believe the preposterous claims of Gustave Whitehead. Santos Dumont is a national hero in Brazil, where nationalist sentiment prevails.TheLongTone (talk) 11:30, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

That's a bit overboard, but the IP OP should see Claims to the first powered flight. EEng 12:01, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Why should I suffer fools and trolls gladly? I think my comment was relatively restrained.TheLongTone (talk) 12:13, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Look, when it comes to not suffering fools gladly, I take a backseat to no one. But the OP's idea is not an uncommon one, and a factual correction is all that was needed. EEng 17:40, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

I think the phrase "I mean, we all learnt everywhere in the world" demonstrates that this IP from Luxembourg is a troll. To whom the proper answeris, I admit, a dignified silence.TheLongTone (talk) 14:43, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

We are, all of us, to a large extent prisoners of what we've been taught, and that includes you. Being misinformed doesn't make him a troll. EEng 15:24, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Oh come off it. I would be most surprised if S-D was credited with the first flight in France and as for being victims of what we are taught- well, up to a point but some of us are capable of evaluating multiple sources and applying first-hand knowledge . In any case the original post was clearly frivolous at best and intended to disrupt. Enjoy the rest of your life.TheLongTone (talk) 13:56, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Wow. Someone's sure go a vortex generator up their butt today. EEng 18:36, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Probably you.TheLongTone (talk) 15:56, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

Good one! EEng 19:05, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

The Democratic Advocate. [volume], January 11, 1907, Image 1

Address By President Armstrong.

William H. Armstrong, former president of the Maryland State Turnpike Association, delivered the following address at the meeting held in Hagerstown on December 29:

“In the near future, there may float in the ocean of air above us, simulachres of those winged monsters of the paleozoic age, that lived by the shores of nameless lakes and left their ‘footprints in the sands of time.' These griffins of the sky will be the aeroplanes of Santos Dumont, and may be the evolution ary successors of the horse, the automobile and the trolley. They will carry their freight, in cars less costly, against a material less resistant than earth or water and be operated at an expense less than the vehicles now used by man.

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038292/1907-01-11/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1770&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=aeroplanes+Dumont&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=14&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=Dumont+aeroplane&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=10 2001:1284:F514:3D8A:1A3:45B9:B136:8FBF (talk) 17:46, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Just a small comment on the "nationalist" topic: there are some English language sources which states that Brazil only cares about Santos Dumont due to the propaganda machine from Getulio Vargas or some faked nationalism (like it was "mythos" built years after Santos Dumont's life). This isn't right: he was already well regarded in his country since the late 19th century and was well seeing by Chile and the US (as example, note 8, page 16) in the early 20th century. Erick Soares3 (talk) 13:39, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

The Morris Tribune. [volume], September 29, 1906, Image 7

KEEPING TAB ON THE WORLD

Concluded from page 2.

Santos Dumont's Mechanical Flight.

Although M. Santos-Dumont in his new aeroplane, the Bird of Prey, was able to traverse the air at Paris only a distance of thirty-seven feet before his ship came to the ground with a crash, nevertheless the test is regarded as one of great importance because it was the first time an airship had ever left the earth unaided.

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Nature – November 8, 1906, Page 35

The First “Manned” Flying Machine.

OCTOBER 23 of the present year will be remembered as a red-letter day in the history of flying machines, for it was on that day that the first flying machine, constructed on the “heavier than air” principle, successfully raised itself and its driver from the ground several feet, and transported itself by means of its own power over a distance of eighty yards.

In this his first successful flight with this machine. M. Santos Dumont is to be sincerely congratulated, for he has accomplished a performance which many workers in different parts of the world have been striving after for many years past and failed.

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New-York Tribune. [volume], November 20, 1906, Page 6, Image 6

SANTOS-DUMONT ANTICIPATED.

A fresh reason for determining the amount of glory due to Santos-Dumont for his recent flights with an aeroplane is afforded by an article in the latest number of "Nature" to reach this country. In that periodical it is asserted that on October 23 "the first flying machine, constructed on the 'heavier than air' principle, successfully raised itself and its driver from the ground several feet, and transported itself by means of its own power over a distance of eighty yards." While that statement is probably correct, the merit of the performance can be rightly estimated only by a comparison with what Wilbur and Orville Wright, of Dayton, Ohio, have been able to accomplish.

Santos-Dumont has been at work on the aeroplane only about a year. Most of his aeronautic experiments were conducted with an entirely different class of airship, the self-propelled balloon. On the other hand, the Wright brothers have been identified with the aeroplane for at least four or five years and perhaps longer. In a letter to the Aero Club of America, last winter they told the results attained by them up to the close of 1905. So startling were their claims that in France and Germany their story was received with much skepticism. With a creditable desire to vindicate the honor of the country, The Scientific American addressed a circular letter of inquiry to seventeen persons who, according to the Wrights, had witnessed their aerial voyages. Twelve responses were received, one of them coming from Mr. Octave Chanute, the author of a well known work on aeronautic experiments and a man whose veracity no well informed foreigner or American would venture to question. The testimony of each of these witnesses was in substantial agreement with that of the others. Though now and then doubt would be expressed as to the exact date of a flight, the distance covered or some other detail, the general tenor of the letters seemed to put the truthfulness of the Wrights' statement quite beyond dispute.

It is worthy of note, in the interests of justice, that the Brazilian has made better provision for launching an aeroplane than the Wrights did last year. His machine, when on the ground, is supported by wheels. When the Wrights were ready to start, theirs was arranged crosswise on a pair of rails. To overcome the friction between these and the lower part of the frame, it was necessary to rely on external aid. Their aeroplane would not lift itself clear of the rails until it had been pushed forward twenty-five or thirty feet by hand, whereas the one which has just created a sensation in Europe will advance without assistance as soon as the propellers begin to revolve and will rise shortly afterward unhelped. Strictly speaking, then, "Nature" is quite right when it says that Santos-Dumont's machine is the first to raise Itself by means of its own power.

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Evening Star. [volume], December 09, 1906, Sunday star, Page 5, Image 53

The Sunday Star, Washington, D. C., December 09, 1906—Part 4.

(Copyright, 1906, by John Elfreth Watkins.)

SANTOS-DUMONT is the first man to have performed aerial flight with a self-propelled machine heavier than the air which it displaced. He has solved a problem which has caused inventive geniuses to burn the midnight oil and toss restlessly upon their couches since centuries before the dawn of the Christian era. During three millenniums or more ambitious men have broken their hearts and their heads seeking the great goal which this fearless Brazilian has won within the past few weeks.

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Danville Intelligencer. [volume], January 04, 1907, Image 1

It remained for the world of 1906 to see the first mechanical navigation of the air from a standing start in a screw-propelled aeroplane. This was achieved by M. Santos-Dumont, at Paris, September 13. in his airship, the Bird of Prey.

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Flying Machines: practice and design – December, 1909, Page 54

Santos-Dumont, in November, 1906, with a petrol driven aeroplane machine, accomplished a short flight successfully, and so is probably the first man carried on a mechanically propelled flying machine. He accomplished a flight of 200 ft. at about 8 ft. from the ground, and secured the Archdeacon prize cup.

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Evening Star. [volume], February 05, 1911, Page 16, Image 40

HOW AVIATION STANDS TO-DAY

BY FRED T. JANE. Editor of "All the World's Airships"

Early Experiments

THE aëroplane is the antithesis of the dirigible. Unlike the latter, it makes no attempt to reproduce in air what a fish does in water. It seeks to do in the air what a bird does. At present it has advanced a step, in that its present practical exposition is no longer an imitation bird. It has got to adapting certain bird characteristics instead.

Twenty years ago any man who even thought that heavier than air flying might become possible was regarded as a lunatic. Ten years ago anyone who tried to make such a thing was regarded with gravest suspicion. Early experiments were regarded as pure folly.

Then came the boxkite, able to lift men. It was obvious that if an engine could be made to do the essential work of a boxkite string, a kite would need no string, and be a flying machine. Santos-Dumont, the first man to fly on a heavier than air machine, did so on a series of boxkites which subsequently developed into the well known Voisin type of aëroplane. Henry Farman in one of the Voisin machines proved that controlled flight in a heavier than air machine was possible.

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1911-02-05/ed-1/seq-40/#date1=1770&index=14&rows=20&words=Dumont+first+Santos+Santos-Dumont&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=Santos+Dumont+first&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 2001:1284:F514:3D8A:1A3:45B9:B136:8FBF (talk) 18:51, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

The Democratic Advocate. [volume], January 11, 1907, Image 1

Address By President Armstrong.

William H. Armstrong, former president of the Maryland State Turnpike Association, delivered the following address at the meeting held in Hagerstown on December 29:

“In the near future, there may float in the ocean of air above us, simulachres of those winged monsters of the paleozoic age, that lived by the shores of nameless lakes and left their ‘footprints in the sands of time.' These griffins of the sky will be the aeroplanes of Santos Dumont, and may be the evolution ary successors of the horse, the automobile and the trolley. They will carry their freight, in cars less costly, against a material less resistant than earth or water and be operated at an expense less than the vehicles now used by man.

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038292/1907-01-11/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1770&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=aeroplanes+Dumont&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=14&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=Dumont+aeroplane&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=10 2001:1284:F514:3D8A:1A3:45B9:B136:8FBF (talk) 18:51, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume], November 07, 1909, Sunday Edition, THIRD SECTION, Page 23, Image 23

Santos Dumont Was the First Real Air Passenger

Every great advance toward the conquest of the air, whether it be made by the Wright brothers, Curtiss, Bleriot, Latham or any of the host of others who are now directing their attention toward solving the problem, reflects some credit on Santos-Dumont.

He brought about the present extraordinary interest in aeronautics. His experiments, beginning a decade ago with a dirigible balloon and continuing to his present aeroplane of today, were the spur that started hundreds of experimenters.

The little Brazilian, resident of Paris for so long, and fitting so thoroughly into the life of the metropolis, has been believed by many to be a Frenchman, but he is a South American by birth, and his father is immensely wealthy.

It is a curious contradiction that from the coffee fields of Brazil rather than from the capitals of Europe should come the man who is really the inspiration of the last few years' wonderful advance in conquering the air.

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The Evening Statesman. [volume], September 29, 1909, Page Four, Image 4

SANTOS-DUMONT TO THE FRONT.

M. Santos-Dumont has emerged from his seclusion with an aeroplane of his own invention both smaller and swifter than those of his rivals. We are told also that its wings spread only a sixth as many square feet as does the machine of his best known rivals, the Wrights; with its one passenger on board it weighs but 240 pounds, and in its first public flights it made a speed of fifty-five miles an hour. Truly this is something worth waiting for, and we now understand what Santos-Dumont was doing in the time when he was silent. It is almost inconceivable that an art that is only in its infancy should bring such remarkable results so soon. It seems but yesterday that the first announcement was made to the world that a heavier-than-air machine actually flew. Yet Santos-Dumont now comes forward with a small and compact little craft weighing, with him on board only 260 pounds and accomplishing the astonishing speed of 55 miles an hour.

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The Intermountain Catholic., October 23, 1909, Page 3, Image 3

Santos Dumont First Flyer.

(From the New York Press.)

Pan-America rejoices that our gallant premier aviator, Santos Dumont, again strides the blast to the tune of 55 miles the hour. He is a rara avis; indeed, the first who flew in public and showed an astounded world the miracle of a man's flight. He is a whole world prodigy, and his name should be fastened to a star or bestowed upon the first convenient coming comet. Brazil may cut the name of Dumont in letters 50 feet high across the face of the peak of the Sugar Loaf mountain at the entrance to the harbor of Rio de Janeiro as a monument of Miltonic majesty to the Brazilian eagle. His father, old man Dumont, a Frenchman, was the pioneer coffee man in the big Santos district of Brazil. He sold out his plantation a number of years ago to a syndicate. Two brothers are quiet bankers in the city of San maulo, Brazil. Santos was believed for a long time to be a mere nutty spendthrift.

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Newark Evening Star and Newark advertiser. [volume], February 08, 1915, HOME EDITION, Page 8, Image 8

AMERICA GETS A FAMOUS AIRMAN.

It is good news for the interests of aviation in this country that Santos-Dumont, the famous Brazilian airman, is to make the United States his permanent home. This, for America, is one of the fortunate results of the war, as Santos-Dumont in recent years has been devoting himself to the development of aviation in France.

Santos-Dumont years ago startled the world as a pioneer navigator of the dirigible balloon, and has the distinction of the first public flight in an aeroplane. He will be an immense help to popularizing aviation in the United States. If the nation has a few thousand citizen aviators it will be an immensely valuable aeronautic reserve.

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Evening Star. [volume], January 09, 1916, Page 4, Image 22

The Sunday Star, Washington, D. C., January 9, 1916-Part 2.

THE WAR'S GEOGRAPHICAL LESSONS

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On the oriental front it was the 3.000 automobiles of Gen. Hindenburg which changed the issue of the furious battle of Bzoura, also called the battle of Lodz. Thus the automobile is another lesson of the war of which the Germans believed that they alone possessed the secret under the head of "mobel machen." Von Hindenburg's Automobiles.

The actual war has become a subject of incessant disquietude and tension on the part of neutral states which, notwithstanding their good intentions in the matter of their neutrality, are attacked and their rights as neutrals violated. This disquietude has proved a latent factor certainly in the meeting at Washington these days of the Pan-America Scientific Congress. The congress has discussed the ways and means to a closer union for the development of their commerce and their mutual protection, bearing in mind the semiofficial threat of a distinguished military visitor two years before the war.

There was nothing more natural than that aviation from a scientific and economical point of view should be a special subject of discussion by this congress of pan-Americans, all the more that there was present as a member of the congress the man who is considered as the pioneer and father of modern aviation, M. Alberto Santos-Dumont.

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El Imparcial., San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 09, 1919, Page 3.

ENGLISH SECTION

OPINIONS OF MY OWN

BY Claudio Capó.

ON AIR NAVIGATION

Air navigation, which is in its infancy, has progressed wonderfully since it first became a practical proposition. Of course, man must have thought of the convenience of being able to fly, since the very moment he perceived other animals going through space. But is is only within the present generation that real progress has been made in the science of aerial navigation, and at the rate it goes we should not be at all surprised if one of these days a trip to the Moon were seriously considered.

If we remember right, Santos Dumont was the first man to flew in a heavier-than-air machine. The Wright Brothers are spoken of in the United States as the first inventors to make of the art a practical proposition. Of the lighter-than-air devices, the most famous are those constructed by Count Zeppelin.

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July 20, 1969 = Apollo 11 = Moon

One Giant Leap For Mankind

Santos Dumont (20 July, 1873 – 23 July, 1932)

July 20, 1969

July 20, 1873

International Astronomical Union – Santos-Dumont (crater)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos-Dumont_(crater)

Santos-Dumont propeller

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Reformador – 1883 Agosto 1 – Página 4

Manifestação espontanea do Espirito de Estevam Montgolfier, recebida em Silveiras, por Ernesto Castro, em 30 de Julho de 1876.

Vencer o espaço com a velocidade de uma bala de artilharia, em um motor que sirva para conduzir o homem; eis o grande problema que será resolvido dentro de pouco tempo.

Essa machina poderosa de conducção, não ha de ser uma utopia ; não.

O missionario qne traz esse aperfeiçoamento á Terra, já se acha entre vós.

O progresso da viação aéria, que tantos proselytos tem achado e tantas victimas ha feito, não está, portanto, longe de realisar-se.

O aperfeiçoamento de qualquer sciencia depende do tempo e do estado da humanidade para recebel-o.

A locomotiva, esse gigante que avassalla os desertos e vence as distancias, será um insignificante invento ante o passaro colossal, que, qual condor dos Andes, percorrerá o espaço, conduzindo em suas soberbas azas, os homens de varios continentes.

Os balões, meros exploradores e percussores da admiravel invenção, nada, pois, serão perante o bello e portentoso passaro mechanico.

Esse Deus de bondade e de misericordia, que nada concede, antes da hora marcada, deixa primeiramente que seus filhos trabalhem em procura da sabedoria, e depois que elles se têm esforçado em descobrir a verdade, ahi então lhes envia um raio de sua divina luz.

Já vêm, ó mortaes, que a navegação aéria não será um sonho, nâo ; mas sim uma brilhante realidade.

O tempo, que vem proximo, vos dará o conhecimento desse estupendo motor.

Brazil, tu que foste o berço dessa grande descuberta, serás em breve o paiz escolhído para demonstrar a força dessa grandiosa machina aéria.

Eis o prognostico que vos dou, oh brazileiros.

ESTEVAM MONTGOLFIER.

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Los Angeles Herald. [microfilm reel], August 08, 1909, Page 11, Image 35

EDITOR OF AERONAUTICS SEES LITTLE PROGRESS

Estimates Enthusiasm Flies Faster That Actual Situation, as Only Few Men Are Flying

Ernest Larue Jones, the editor of Aeronautics, thinks that progress in aviation is slow, in spite of the attention recently given it. "Waive for the moment all this flying enthusiasm," he says in the August Aeronautics, "and consider just what progress has really been made. Thouqgh the Wrights really began successful flying with their flights of 1903, the popular belief and interest in the art dates with the little jump of Santos-Dumont in the fall of 1906, when the world went wild over his grasshopper-hop as compared to the bird-flights of the Wrights three years before. Since 1906 how many men have really flown? Those who are known are only Farman, Delagrange, Cody, Moore-Brabazon, Bleriot and now Latham and Count Lambert in Europe; Curtiss, McCurdy, Selfridge, F. W. Baldwin and the Wrights in America. In Europe there are one or two others who have made short flights, and then, too, Calderara, a Wright pupil, in Italy. At the moment there are only the Wrights, Latham and Bleriot doing any real flying.

"This does not seem much like progress in these three years and more. How far did the automobile advance in three years? Somewhat faster than this, indeed. One's enthusiasm easily flies away.

"The prizes offered abroad have caused an enormous amount of experimental work, and it is to be regretted that such encouragement is not in America."

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The Evening Star. [volume], June 09, 1933, Page C-7, Image 37

Conquest of the Air.

Speed and Safety.

DURING the years from 1906 to 1921 almost all speed records for airplanes were made by Frenchmen; but aviators of other countries — England, Italy and the United States—have held the records since 1922.

In 1906 Santos Dumont piloted an airplane at the record speed of 25 miles per hour. Compare that with the speed made last year by the Italian aviator, Neri—430 miles an hour! That is more than 7 miles per minute.

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Roanoke Rapids Herald. [volume], May 02, 1946, SECTION C, Page 3, Image 23

AIR RECORDS WILL BE BROKEN

Many of the 179 official world nd international air records which were set up between 1906 when Santos Dumont established a speed of 25 miles per hour in the air, and 1940 when the war ended such attempts, will go by the board this year. The 1940 records were divided among some 50 classifications and were held by the airmen of 9 countries.  

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The Bismarck Tribune. [volume], November 01, 1934, Image 8

First air speed record was established in 1906 by Santos Dumont of France, who flew 25 miles an hour.

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The Evening Star. [volume], September 10, 1908, Image 1

Former Aeroplane Records.

The best aeroplane record (unofficial) prior to yesterday's flights by Mr. Orville Wright was made by Mr. Wilbur Wright near Dayton, Ohio, October 5, 1905, when he flew 24 1-5 miles in 38 minutes and 20 seconds. Other official records are:

October 23, 1906 M. Santos Dumont. 27.34 yards, at Bagatelle, France.

November 12. 1906 M. Santos Dumont, 240.5 yards, at Bagatelle, France.

October 26. 1907 Mr. Henry Farman, 843 yards, at Issy-les-Moulineaux.

January 11. 1908 Mr. Henry Farman, 1,200 yards in 1 minute and 55 seconds.

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Associated Press – November 21, 2007

Alberto Santos Dumont: The first person to officially fly more than 100metres. (July 8, 1991)

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Flying Machines: practice and design – December, 1909, Page 54

Santos-Dumont, in November, 1906, with a petrol driven aeroplane machine, accomplished a short flight successfully, and so is probably the first man carried on a mechanically propelled flying machine. He accomplished a flight of 200 ft. at about 8 ft. from the ground, and secured the Archdeacon prize cup.

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The Democratic Advocate. [volume], January 11, 1907, Image 1

Address By President Armstrong.

William H. Armstrong, former president of the Maryland State Turnpike Association, delivered the following address at the meeting held in Hagerstown on December 29:

“In the near future, there may float in the ocean of air above us, simulachres of those winged monsters of the paleozoic age, that lived by the shores of nameless lakes and left their ‘footprints in the sands of time.' These griffins of the sky will be the aeroplanes of Santos Dumont, and may be the evolution ary successors of the horse, the automobile and the trolley. They will carry their freight, in cars less costly, against a material less resistant than earth or water and be operated at an expense less than the vehicles now used by man.

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I have great regard for Santos Dumont; I just believe that the Wrights had a better aircraft and flew it before him.TheLongTone (talk) 13:58, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

All right! I just wanted to state it since some people may have the wrong impression. In Brazil, there are some researchers who explore what is the definition of an "airplane" (going from glider --> motoglider ---> airplane (this book explores this subject, but its main focus is on Santos Dumont as a researcher/innovator)) and this guy even did an expensive and long research on historical documents (just to show to what extent this subject goes in Brazil) while exploring this subject (is almost 3 hours long). Erick Soares3 (talk) 22:12, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

My plan isn't to start another discussion, but to just put some interesting links here (I don't know how much useful the video would be for the Wikipedia here or anywhere else, but I have already used the biographical material from the book in the bio and some related articles). Erick Soares3 (talk) 22:15, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

The Democratic Advocate. [volume], January 11, 1907, Image 1

Address By President Armstrong.

William H. Armstrong, former president of the Maryland State Turnpike Association, delivered the following address at the meeting held in Hagerstown on December 29:

“In the near future, there may float in the ocean of air above us, simulachres of those winged monsters of the paleozoic age, that lived by the shores of nameless lakes and left their ‘footprints in the sands of time.' These griffins of the sky will be the aeroplanes of Santos Dumont, and may be the evolution ary successors of the horse, the automobile and the trolley. They will carry their freight, in cars less costly, against a material less resistant than earth or water and be operated at an expense less than the vehicles now used by man.

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The Morris Tribune. [volume], September 29, 1906, Image 7

KEEPING TAB ON THE WORLD

Concluded from page 2.

Santos Dumont's Mechanical Flight.

Although M. Santos-Dumont in his new aeroplane, the Bird of Prey, was able to traverse the air at Paris only a distance of thirty-seven feet before his ship came to the ground with a crash, nevertheless the test is regarded as one of great importance because it was the first time an airship had ever left the earth unaided.

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Nature – November 8, 1906, Page 35

The First “Manned” Flying Machine.

OCTOBER 23 of the present year will be remembered as a red-letter day in the history of flying machines, for it was on that day that the first flying machine, constructed on the “heavier than air” principle, successfully raised itself and its driver from the ground several feet, and transported itself by means of its own power over a distance of eighty yards.

In this his first successful flight with this machine. M. Santos Dumont is to be sincerely congratulated, for he has accomplished a performance which many workers in different parts of the world have been striving after for many years past and failed.

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New-York Tribune. [volume], November 20, 1906, Page 6, Image 6

SANTOS-DUMONT ANTICIPATED.

A fresh reason for determining the amount of glory due to Santos-Dumont for his recent flights with an aeroplane is afforded by an article in the latest number of "Nature" to reach this country. In that periodical it is asserted that on October 23 "the first flying machine, constructed on the 'heavier than air' principle, successfully raised itself and its driver from the ground several feet, and transported itself by means of its own power over a distance of eighty yards." While that statement is probably correct, the merit of the performance can be rightly estimated only by a comparison with what Wilbur and Orville Wright, of Dayton, Ohio, have been able to accomplish.

Santos-Dumont has been at work on the aeroplane only about a year. Most of his aeronautic experiments were conducted with an entirely different class of airship, the self-propelled balloon. On the other hand, the Wright brothers have been identified with the aeroplane for at least four or five years and perhaps longer. In a letter to the Aero Club of America, last winter they told the results attained by them up to the close of 1905. So startling were their claims that in France and Germany their story was received with much skepticism. With a creditable desire to vindicate the honor of the country, The Scientific American addressed a circular letter of inquiry to seventeen persons who, according to the Wrights, had witnessed their aerial voyages. Twelve responses were received, one of them coming from Mr. Octave Chanute, the author of a well known work on aeronautic experiments and a man whose veracity no well informed foreigner or American would venture to question. The testimony of each of these witnesses was in substantial agreement with that of the others. Though now and then doubt would be expressed as to the exact date of a flight, the distance covered or some other detail, the general tenor of the letters seemed to put the truthfulness of the Wrights' statement quite beyond dispute.

It is worthy of note, in the interests of justice, that the Brazilian has made better provision for launching an aeroplane than the Wrights did last year. His machine, when on the ground, is supported by wheels. When the Wrights were ready to start, theirs was arranged crosswise on a pair of rails. To overcome the friction between these and the lower part of the frame, it was necessary to rely on external aid. Their aeroplane would not lift itself clear of the rails until it had been pushed forward twenty-five or thirty feet by hand, whereas the one which has just created a sensation in Europe will advance without assistance as soon as the propellers begin to revolve and will rise shortly afterward unhelped. Strictly speaking, then, "Nature" is quite right when it says that Santos-Dumont's machine is the first to raise Itself by means of its own power.

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Evening Star. [volume], December 09, 1906, Sunday star, Page 5, Image 53

The Sunday Star, Washington, D. C., December 09, 1906—Part 4.

(Copyright, 1906, by John Elfreth Watkins.)

SANTOS-DUMONT is the first man to have performed aerial flight with a self-propelled machine heavier than the air which it displaced. He has solved a problem which has caused inventive geniuses to burn the midnight oil and toss restlessly upon their couches since centuries before the dawn of the Christian era. During three millenniums or more ambitious men have broken their hearts and their heads seeking the great goal which this fearless Brazilian has won within the past few weeks.

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Danville Intelligencer. [volume], January 04, 1907, Image 1

It remained for the world of 1906 to see the first mechanical navigation of the air from a standing start in a screw-propelled aeroplane. This was achieved by M. Santos-Dumont, at Paris, September 13. in his airship, the Bird of Prey.

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The Democratic Advocate. [volume], January 11, 1907, Image 1

Address By President Armstrong.

William H. Armstrong, former president of the Maryland State Turnpike Association, delivered the following address at the meeting held in Hagerstown on December 29:

“In the near future, there may float in the ocean of air above us, simulachres of those winged monsters of the paleozoic age, that lived by the shores of nameless lakes and left their ‘footprints in the sands of time.' These griffins of the sky will be the aeroplanes of Santos Dumont, and may be the evolution ary successors of the horse, the automobile and the trolley. They will carry their freight, in cars less costly, against a material less resistant than earth or water and be operated at an expense less than the vehicles now used by man.

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Evening Star. [volume], February 05, 1911, Page 16, Image 40

HOW AVIATION STANDS TO-DAY

BY FRED T. JANE. Editor of "All the World's Airships"

Early Experiments

THE aëroplane is the antithesis of the dirigible. Unlike the latter, it makes no attempt to reproduce in air what a fish does in water. It seeks to do in the air what a bird does. At present it has advanced a step, in that its present practical exposition is no longer an imitation bird. It has got to adapting certain bird characteristics instead.

Twenty years ago any man who even thought that heavier than air flying might become possible was regarded as a lunatic. Ten years ago anyone who tried to make such a thing was regarded with gravest suspicion. Early experiments were regarded as pure folly.

Then came the boxkite, able to lift men. It was obvious that if an engine could be made to do the essential work of a boxkite string, a kite would need no string, and be a flying machine. Santos-Dumont, the first man to fly on a heavier than air machine, did so on a series of boxkites which subsequently developed into the well known Voisin type of aëroplane. Henry Farman in one of the Voisin machines proved that controlled flight in a heavier than air machine was possible.

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume], November 07, 1909, Sunday Edition, THIRD SECTION, Page 23, Image 23

Santos Dumont Was the First Real Air Passenger

Every great advance toward the conquest of the air, whether it be made by the Wright brothers, Curtiss, Bleriot, Latham or any of the host of others who are now directing their attention toward solving the problem, reflects some credit on Santos-Dumont.

He brought about the present extraordinary interest in aeronautics. His experiments, beginning a decade ago with a dirigible balloon and continuing to his present aeroplane of today, were the spur that started hundreds of experimenters.

The little Brazilian, resident of Paris for so long, and fitting so thoroughly into the life of the metropolis, has been believed by many to be a Frenchman, but he is a South American by birth, and his father is immensely wealthy.

It is a curious contradiction that from the coffee fields of Brazil rather than from the capitals of Europe should come the man who is really the inspiration of the last few years' wonderful advance in conquering the air.

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The Evening Statesman. [volume], September 29, 1909, Page Four, Image 4

SANTOS-DUMONT TO THE FRONT.

M. Santos-Dumont has emerged from his seclusion with an aeroplane of his own invention both smaller and swifter than those of his rivals. We are told also that its wings spread only a sixth as many square feet as does the machine of his best known rivals, the Wrights; with its one passenger on board it weighs but 240 pounds, and in its first public flights it made a speed of fifty-five miles an hour. Truly this is something worth waiting for, and we now understand what Santos-Dumont was doing in the time when he was silent. It is almost inconceivable that an art that is only in its infancy should bring such remarkable results so soon. It seems but yesterday that the first announcement was made to the world that a heavier-than-air machine actually flew. Yet Santos-Dumont now comes forward with a small and compact little craft weighing, with him on board only 260 pounds and accomplishing the astonishing speed of 55 miles an hour.

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The Intermountain Catholic., October 23, 1909, Page 3, Image 3

Santos Dumont First Flyer.

(From the New York Press.)

Pan-America rejoices that our gallant premier aviator, Santos Dumont, again strides the blast to the tune of 55 miles the hour. He is a rara avis; indeed, the first who flew in public and showed an astounded world the miracle of a man's flight. He is a whole world prodigy, and his name should be fastened to a star or bestowed upon the first convenient coming comet. Brazil may cut the name of Dumont in letters 50 feet high across the face of the peak of the Sugar Loaf mountain at the entrance to the harbor of Rio de Janeiro as a monument of Miltonic majesty to the Brazilian eagle. His father, old man Dumont, a Frenchman, was the pioneer coffee man in the big Santos district of Brazil. He sold out his plantation a number of years ago to a syndicate. Two brothers are quiet bankers in the city of San maulo, Brazil. Santos was believed for a long time to be a mere nutty spendthrift.

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Newark Evening Star and Newark advertiser. [volume], February 08, 1915, HOME EDITION, Page 8, Image 8

AMERICA GETS A FAMOUS AIRMAN.

It is good news for the interests of aviation in this country that Santos-Dumont, the famous Brazilian airman, is to make the United States his permanent home. This, for America, is one of the fortunate results of the war, as Santos-Dumont in recent years has been devoting himself to the development of aviation in France.

Santos-Dumont years ago startled the world as a pioneer navigator of the dirigible balloon, and has the distinction of the first public flight in an aeroplane. He will be an immense help to popularizing aviation in the United States. If the nation has a few thousand citizen aviators it will be an immensely valuable aeronautic reserve.

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Evening Star. [volume], January 09, 1916, Page 4, Image 22

The Sunday Star, Washington, D. C., January 9, 1916-Part 2.

THE WAR'S GEOGRAPHICAL LESSONS

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On the oriental front it was the 3.000 automobiles of Gen. Hindenburg which changed the issue of the furious battle of Bzoura, also called the battle of Lodz. Thus the automobile is another lesson of the war of which the Germans believed that they alone possessed the secret under the head of "mobel machen." Von Hindenburg's Automobiles.

The actual war has become a subject of incessant disquietude and tension on the part of neutral states which, notwithstanding their good intentions in the matter of their neutrality, are attacked and their rights as neutrals violated. This disquietude has proved a latent factor certainly in the meeting at Washington these days of the Pan-America Scientific Congress. The congress has discussed the ways and means to a closer union for the development of their commerce and their mutual protection, bearing in mind the semiofficial threat of a distinguished military visitor two years before the war.

There was nothing more natural than that aviation from a scientific and economical point of view should be a special subject of discussion by this congress of pan-Americans, all the more that there was present as a member of the congress the man who is considered as the pioneer and father of modern aviation, M. Alberto Santos-Dumont.

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El Imparcial., San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 09, 1919, Page 3.

ENGLISH SECTION

OPINIONS OF MY OWN

BY Claudio Capó.

ON AIR NAVIGATION

Air navigation, which is in its infancy, has progressed wonderfully since it first became a practical proposition. Of course, man must have thought of the convenience of being able to fly, since the very moment he perceived other animals going through space. But is is only within the present generation that real progress has been made in the science of aerial navigation, and at the rate it goes we should not be at all surprised if one of these days a trip to the Moon were seriously considered.

If we remember right, Santos Dumont was the first man to flew in a heavier-than-air machine. The Wright Brothers are spoken of in the United States as the first inventors to make of the art a practical proposition. Of the lighter-than-air devices, the most famous are those constructed by Count Zeppelin.

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July 20, 1969 = Apollo 11 = Moon

One Giant Leap For Mankind

Santos Dumont (20 July, 1873 – 23 July, 1932)

July 20, 1969

July 20, 1873

International Astronomical Union – Santos-Dumont (crater)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos-Dumont_(crater)

Santos-Dumont propeller

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Los Angeles Herald. [microfilm reel], August 08, 1909, Page 11, Image 35

EDITOR OF AERONAUTICS SEES LITTLE PROGRESS

Estimates Enthusiasm Flies Faster That Actual Situation, as Only Few Men Are Flying

Ernest Larue Jones, the editor of Aeronautics, thinks that progress in aviation is slow, in spite of the attention recently given it. "Waive for the moment all this flying enthusiasm," he says in the August Aeronautics, "and consider just what progress has really been made. Thouqgh the Wrights really began successful flying with their flights of 1903, the popular belief and interest in the art dates with the little jump of Santos-Dumont in the fall of 1906, when the world went wild over his grasshopper-hop as compared to the bird-flights of the Wrights three years before. Since 1906 how many men have really flown? Those who are known are only Farman, Delagrange, Cody, Moore-Brabazon, Bleriot and now Latham and Count Lambert in Europe; Curtiss, McCurdy, Selfridge, F. W. Baldwin and the Wrights in America. In Europe there are one or two others who have made short flights, and then, too, Calderara, a Wright pupil, in Italy. At the moment there are only the Wrights, Latham and Bleriot doing any real flying.

"This does not seem much like progress in these three years and more. How far did the automobile advance in three years? Somewhat faster than this, indeed. One's enthusiasm easily flies away.

"The prizes offered abroad have caused an enormous amount of experimental work, and it is to be regretted that such encouragement is not in America."

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The Evening Star. [volume], June 09, 1933, Page C-7, Image 37

Conquest of the Air.

Speed and Safety.

DURING the years from 1906 to 1921 almost all speed records for airplanes were made by Frenchmen; but aviators of other countries — England, Italy and the United States—have held the records since 1922.

In 1906 Santos Dumont piloted an airplane at the record speed of 25 miles per hour. Compare that with the speed made last year by the Italian aviator, Neri—430 miles an hour! That is more than 7 miles per minute.

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Roanoke Rapids Herald. [volume], May 02, 1946, SECTION C, Page 3, Image 23

AIR RECORDS WILL BE BROKEN

Many of the 179 official world nd international air records which were set up between 1906 when Santos Dumont established a speed of 25 miles per hour in the air, and 1940 when the war ended such attempts, will go by the board this year. The 1940 records were divided among some 50 classifications and were held by the airmen of 9 countries.  

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The Bismarck Tribune. [volume], November 01, 1934, Image 8

First air speed record was established in 1906 by Santos Dumont of France, who flew 25 miles an hour.

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The Evening Star. [volume], September 10, 1908, Image 1

Former Aeroplane Records.

The best aeroplane record (unofficial) prior to yesterday's flights by Mr. Orville Wright was made by Mr. Wilbur Wright near Dayton, Ohio, October 5, 1905, when he flew 24 1-5 miles in 38 minutes and 20 seconds. Other official records are:

October 23, 1906 M. Santos Dumont. 27.34 yards, at Bagatelle, France.

November 12. 1906 M. Santos Dumont, 240.5 yards, at Bagatelle, France.

October 26. 1907 Mr. Henry Farman, 843 yards, at Issy-les-Moulineaux.

January 11. 1908 Mr. Henry Farman, 1,200 yards in 1 minute and 55 seconds.

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1908-09-10/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1770&index=15&rows=20&words=1906+Dumont+Santos&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=In+1906+Santos+Dumont+&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

Associated Press – November 21, 2007

Alberto Santos Dumont: The first person to officially fly more than 100metres. (July 8, 1991)

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Honors and Legacy citation

Questioning logic why Edited Version was removed --

"It is popularly believed in Brazil that Santos-Dumont preceded the Wright brothers in demonstrating a practical airplane, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.[43] They point to public recognition over chronology; He switched from lighter than air to heavier craft after the Wrights' invention."

-- for making the case the cited footnote actually refutes his legacy. Direct quotes from that very source:

"It's difficult for citizens of the United States to understand why Brazilians are so insistent that he was the first to fly when the very sources they cite seem to prove just the opposite. Brazilians point proudly to the records of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale that show Santos Dumont made his record 722-foot flight in 1906, without disputing the eyewitness accounts that corroborate the Wright brothers report of 852 feet in 1903."

"In 1904 -- a year after the Wright brothers had made their first powered flight-- Santos Dumont turned his attention to heavier-than-air flying. He began with a glider, then built an unsuccessful helicopter in 1905. In 1906, he built a strange-looking flying machine -- a biplane of what the French had begun to call the type du Wright, loosely based on the Wright biplane plans that had been published in several European magazines."

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.231.18.52 (talk) 18:17, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

You're talking about this edit [1]. The problem is that the source [2] doesn't say anything about "overwhelming evidence", rather it says the very sources [Brazilians] cite seem to prove just the opposite, which is much weaker. Furthermore, a website devoted to the Wright Brothers, though its research does seem high-quality, isn't the best source for this kind of thing. We'll find better sources in time. EEng 19:32, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

It is just propaganda. They are disrespectful. They just mock Brazilians. They certainly have their own agenda.

By the way, the Wright brothers' page is also basically full of propaganda and excuses:

• The Wright brothers did not have the luxury of being able to give away their invention [...]
• [...] since they were neither wealthy nor government-funded (unlike other experimenters such as Ader, Maxim, Langley, and Santos-Dumont).

There is not a single purpose on this citation. It is just someone's opinion on what s/he thinks about Brazilians, based on what some friend told him or her. 179.251.99.36 (talk) 23:03, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Nature – November 8, 1906, Page 35

The First “Manned” Flying Machine.

OCTOBER 23 of the present year will be remembered as a red-letter day in the history of flying machines, for it was on that day that the first flying machine, constructed on the “heavier than air” principle, successfully raised itself and its driver from the ground several feet, and transported itself by means of its own power over a distance of eighty yards.

In this his first successful flight with this machine. M. Santos Dumont is to be sincerely congratulated, for he has accomplished a performance which many workers in different parts of the world have been striving after for many years past and failed.

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New-York Tribune. [volume], November 20, 1906, Page 6, Image 6

SANTOS-DUMONT ANTICIPATED.

A fresh reason for determining the amount of glory due to Santos-Dumont for his recent flights with an aeroplane is afforded by an article in the latest number of "Nature" to reach this country. In that periodical it is asserted that on October 23 "the first flying machine, constructed on the 'heavier than air' principle, successfully raised itself and its driver from the ground several feet, and transported itself by means of its own power over a distance of eighty yards." While that statement is probably correct, the merit of the performance can be rightly estimated only by a comparison with what Wilbur and Orville Wright, of Dayton, Ohio, have been able to accomplish.

Santos-Dumont has been at work on the aeroplane only about a year. Most of his aeronautic experiments were conducted with an entirely different class of airship, the self-propelled balloon. On the other hand, the Wright brothers have been identified with the aeroplane for at least four or five years and perhaps longer. In a letter to the Aero Club of America, last winter they told the results attained by them up to the close of 1905. So startling were their claims that in France and Germany their story was received with much skepticism. With a creditable desire to vindicate the honor of the country, The Scientific American addressed a circular letter of inquiry to seventeen persons who, according to the Wrights, had witnessed their aerial voyages. Twelve responses were received, one of them coming from Mr. Octave Chanute, the author of a well known work on aeronautic experiments and a man whose veracity no well informed foreigner or American would venture to question. The testimony of each of these witnesses was in substantial agreement with that of the others. Though now and then doubt would be expressed as to the exact date of a flight, the distance covered or some other detail, the general tenor of the letters seemed to put the truthfulness of the Wrights' statement quite beyond dispute.

It is worthy of note, in the interests of justice, that the Brazilian has made better provision for launching an aeroplane than the Wrights did last year. His machine, when on the ground, is supported by wheels. When the Wrights were ready to start, theirs was arranged crosswise on a pair of rails. To overcome the friction between these and the lower part of the frame, it was necessary to rely on external aid. Their aeroplane would not lift itself clear of the rails until it had been pushed forward twenty-five or thirty feet by hand, whereas the one which has just created a sensation in Europe will advance without assistance as soon as the propellers begin to revolve and will rise shortly afterward unhelped. Strictly speaking, then, "Nature" is quite right when it says that Santos-Dumont's machine is the first to raise Itself by means of its own power.

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Evening Star. [volume], December 09, 1906, Sunday star, Page 5, Image 53

The Sunday Star, Washington, D. C., December 09, 1906—Part 4.

(Copyright, 1906, by John Elfreth Watkins.)

SANTOS-DUMONT is the first man to have performed aerial flight with a self-propelled machine heavier than the air which it displaced. He has solved a problem which has caused inventive geniuses to burn the midnight oil and toss restlessly upon their couches since centuries before the dawn of the Christian era. During three millenniums or more ambitious men have broken their hearts and their heads seeking the great goal which this fearless Brazilian has won within the past few weeks.

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Danville Intelligencer. [volume], January 04, 1907, Image 1

It remained for the world of 1906 to see the first mechanical navigation of the air from a standing start in a screw-propelled aeroplane. This was achieved by M. Santos-Dumont, at Paris, September 13. in his airship, the Bird of Prey.

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The Democratic Advocate. [volume], January 11, 1907, Image 1

Address By President Armstrong.

William H. Armstrong, former president of the Maryland State Turnpike Association, delivered the following address at the meeting held in Hagerstown on December 29:

“In the near future, there may float in the ocean of air above us, simulachres of those winged monsters of the paleozoic age, that lived by the shores of nameless lakes and left their ‘footprints in the sands of time.' These griffins of the sky will be the aeroplanes of Santos Dumont, and may be the evolution ary successors of the horse, the automobile and the trolley. They will carry their freight, in cars less costly, against a material less resistant than earth or water and be operated at an expense less than the vehicles now used by man.

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Flying Machines: practice and design – December, 1909, Page 54

Santos-Dumont, in November, 1906, with a petrol driven aeroplane machine, accomplished a short flight successfully, and so is probably the first man carried on a mechanically propelled flying machine. He accomplished a flight of 200 ft. at about 8 ft. from the ground, and secured the Archdeacon prize cup.

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Evening Star. [volume], February 05, 1911, Page 16, Image 40

HOW AVIATION STANDS TO-DAY

BY FRED T. JANE. Editor of "All the World's Airships"

Early Experiments

THE aëroplane is the antithesis of the dirigible. Unlike the latter, it makes no attempt to reproduce in air what a fish does in water. It seeks to do in the air what a bird does. At present it has advanced a step, in that its present practical exposition is no longer an imitation bird. It has got to adapting certain bird characteristics instead.

Twenty years ago any man who even thought that heavier than air flying might become possible was regarded as a lunatic. Ten years ago anyone who tried to make such a thing was regarded with gravest suspicion. Early experiments were regarded as pure folly.

Then came the boxkite, able to lift men. It was obvious that if an engine could be made to do the essential work of a boxkite string, a kite would need no string, and be a flying machine. Santos-Dumont, the first man to fly on a heavier than air machine, did so on a series of boxkites which subsequently developed into the well known Voisin type of aëroplane. Henry Farman in one of the Voisin machines proved that controlled flight in a heavier than air machine was possible.

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume], November 07, 1909, Sunday Edition, THIRD SECTION, Page 23, Image 23

Santos Dumont Was the First Real Air Passenger

Every great advance toward the conquest of the air, whether it be made by the Wright brothers, Curtiss, Bleriot, Latham or any of the host of others who are now directing their attention toward solving the problem, reflects some credit on Santos-Dumont.

He brought about the present extraordinary interest in aeronautics. His experiments, beginning a decade ago with a dirigible balloon and continuing to his present aeroplane of today, were the spur that started hundreds of experimenters.

The little Brazilian, resident of Paris for so long, and fitting so thoroughly into the life of the metropolis, has been believed by many to be a Frenchman, but he is a South American by birth, and his father is immensely wealthy.

It is a curious contradiction that from the coffee fields of Brazil rather than from the capitals of Europe should come the man who is really the inspiration of the last few years' wonderful advance in conquering the air.

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The Evening Statesman. [volume], September 29, 1909, Page Four, Image 4

SANTOS-DUMONT TO THE FRONT.

M. Santos-Dumont has emerged from his seclusion with an aeroplane of his own invention both smaller and swifter than those of his rivals. We are told also that its wings spread only a sixth as many square feet as does the machine of his best known rivals, the Wrights; with its one passenger on board it weighs but 240 pounds, and in its first public flights it made a speed of fifty-five miles an hour. Truly this is something worth waiting for, and we now understand what Santos-Dumont was doing in the time when he was silent. It is almost inconceivable that an art that is only in its infancy should bring such remarkable results so soon. It seems but yesterday that the first announcement was made to the world that a heavier-than-air machine actually flew. Yet Santos-Dumont now comes forward with a small and compact little craft weighing, with him on board only 260 pounds and accomplishing the astonishing speed of 55 miles an hour.

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The Intermountain Catholic., October 23, 1909, Page 3, Image 3

Santos Dumont First Flyer.

(From the New York Press.)

Pan-America rejoices that our gallant premier aviator, Santos Dumont, again strides the blast to the tune of 55 miles the hour. He is a rara avis; indeed, the first who flew in public and showed an astounded world the miracle of a man's flight. He is a whole world prodigy, and his name should be fastened to a star or bestowed upon the first convenient coming comet. Brazil may cut the name of Dumont in letters 50 feet high across the face of the peak of the Sugar Loaf mountain at the entrance to the harbor of Rio de Janeiro as a monument of Miltonic majesty to the Brazilian eagle. His father, old man Dumont, a Frenchman, was the pioneer coffee man in the big Santos district of Brazil. He sold out his plantation a number of years ago to a syndicate. Two brothers are quiet bankers in the city of San maulo, Brazil. Santos was believed for a long time to be a mere nutty spendthrift.

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Newark Evening Star and Newark advertiser. [volume], February 08, 1915, HOME EDITION, Page 8, Image 8

AMERICA GETS A FAMOUS AIRMAN.

It is good news for the interests of aviation in this country that Santos-Dumont, the famous Brazilian airman, is to make the United States his permanent home. This, for America, is one of the fortunate results of the war, as Santos-Dumont in recent years has been devoting himself to the development of aviation in France.

Santos-Dumont years ago startled the world as a pioneer navigator of the dirigible balloon, and has the distinction of the first public flight in an aeroplane. He will be an immense help to popularizing aviation in the United States. If the nation has a few thousand citizen aviators it will be an immensely valuable aeronautic reserve.

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Evening Star. [volume], January 09, 1916, Page 4, Image 22

The Sunday Star, Washington, D. C., January 9, 1916-Part 2.

THE WAR'S GEOGRAPHICAL LESSONS

⁂

On the oriental front it was the 3.000 automobiles of Gen. Hindenburg which changed the issue of the furious battle of Bzoura, also called the battle of Lodz. Thus the automobile is another lesson of the war of which the Germans believed that they alone possessed the secret under the head of "mobel machen." Von Hindenburg's Automobiles.

The actual war has become a subject of incessant disquietude and tension on the part of neutral states which, notwithstanding their good intentions in the matter of their neutrality, are attacked and their rights as neutrals violated. This disquietude has proved a latent factor certainly in the meeting at Washington these days of the Pan-America Scientific Congress. The congress has discussed the ways and means to a closer union for the development of their commerce and their mutual protection, bearing in mind the semiofficial threat of a distinguished military visitor two years before the war.

There was nothing more natural than that aviation from a scientific and economical point of view should be a special subject of discussion by this congress of pan-Americans, all the more that there was present as a member of the congress the man who is considered as the pioneer and father of modern aviation, M. Alberto Santos-Dumont.

⁂

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El Imparcial., San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 09, 1919, Page 3.

ENGLISH SECTION

OPINIONS OF MY OWN

BY Claudio Capó.

ON AIR NAVIGATION

Air navigation, which is in its infancy, has progressed wonderfully since it first became a practical proposition. Of course, man must have thought of the convenience of being able to fly, since the very moment he perceived other animals going through space. But is is only within the present generation that real progress has been made in the science of aerial navigation, and at the rate it goes we should not be at all surprised if one of these days a trip to the Moon were seriously considered.

If we remember right, Santos Dumont was the first man to flew in a heavier-than-air machine. The Wright Brothers are spoken of in the United States as the first inventors to make of the art a practical proposition. Of the lighter-than-air devices, the most famous are those constructed by Count Zeppelin.

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July 20, 1969 = Apollo 11 = Moon

One Giant Leap For Mankind

Santos Dumont (20 July, 1873 – 23 July, 1932)

July 20, 1969

July 20, 1873

International Astronomical Union – Santos-Dumont (crater)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos-Dumont_(crater)

Santos-Dumont propeller

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The Morris Tribune. [volume], September 29, 1906, Image 7

KEEPING TAB ON THE WORLD

Concluded from page 2.

Santos Dumont's Mechanical Flight.

Although M. Santos-Dumont in his new aeroplane, the Bird of Prey, was able to traverse the air at Paris only a distance of thirty-seven feet before his ship came to the ground with a crash, nevertheless the test is regarded as one of great importance because it was the first time an airship had ever left the earth unaided.

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