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Alberto Santos-Dumont, self-stylised as Alberto Santos=Dumont, [1] (20 July 1873 – 23 July 1932) was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, [2] [3] and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft.
The only photos of the flights of 1904–1905 were taken by the brothers. (A few photos were damaged in the Great Dayton Flood of 1913, but most survived intact.) In 1904 Ohio beekeeping businessman Amos Root, a technology enthusiast, saw a few flights including the first circle. Articles he wrote for his beekeeping magazine were the only ...
He also made 17 NASA M2-F1, 2 other M2-F2 and 1 Northrop HL-10 lifting body flights. Portions of M2-F2 footage including Peterson's spectacular crash landing were used for the 1973 TV movie and subsequent series, The Six Million Dollar Man during the opening credits of every episode. [ 1 ]
Richard William Pearse (3 December 1877 – 29 July 1953) was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments. Witnesses interviewed many years afterward describe observing Pearse flying and landing a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew.
On May 1, 2023, a single-engine plane crashed into the Amazon rainforest in Colombia. Though the three adults onboard died, the four children, aged 11 months to 13 years old, survived.The eldest ...
Investigators head into the debris field at the site of a commercial plane crash near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001. The crash is one of four planes that were hijacked as part of a ...
Emergency officials investigate the scene of a plane crash on Interstate75 in Naples near Exit 105 on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024. The plane carrying five people crashed on Friday, Feb. 9, 2023.
The crash landing sites themselves are of interest to space archeology. Luna 1, not itself a lunar orbiter, was the first spacecraft designed as an impactor. It failed to hit the Moon in 1959, however, thus inadvertently becoming the first man-made object to leave geocentric orbit and enter a heliocentric orbit, where it remains.