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Model Image 1898. Brésil (balloon) – Japanese silk envelope. 113 m 3 (4,000 cu ft) capacity. [2] Its first flight was on 4 July 1898. [3]L'Amérique (balloon) – 500m 3 of hydrogen and 10 meters in diameter, being able to carry a few passengers, but without control, [4] with which he braved storms and accidents.
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 heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers ...
After 1903 the Wrights used a catapult to assist most takeoffs of their 1904 and 1905 airplanes. The Santos-Dumont 14-bis did not use a catapult and ran on wheels located at the back of the aircraft – said to have been adopted by Santos-Dumont for his 14-bis after personally witnessing Traian Vuia's contemporary, four-wheeled aircraft's ...
The first aircraft of the type was the Santos-Dumont No. 19, which was built in 1907 to attempt to win the Grand Prix d'Aviation offered for a one kilometre closed-circuit flight. Powered by a 15 kW (20 hp) air-cooled Dutheil & Chalmers flat-twin engine mounted on the leading edge of the wing, it had a wingspan of 5.1 m.
Pages in category "Santos-Dumont aircraft" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Santos Dumont Collection, also known as Alberto Santos Dumont Collection, is a collection of about 1,500 items linked to Santos Dumont, under the guard of the Museu Paulista. The collection includes several types of material, including texts , objects and iconographies of the Brazilian inventor , in particular 323 images about the ...
This won Santos-Dumont the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize for the first officially-observed flight of more than 25 meters. Aviation historians generally recognise it as the first powered flight in Europe. Then on 12 November a flight of 22.2 seconds carried the 14-bis some 220 m (720 ft), earning the Aéro-Club prize of 1,500 francs for the first ...
One of Santos Dumont's main innovations in this aircraft was the use of Japanese silk for the envelope: Japanese silk, despite having 70% of the resistance per unit area of Chinese silk, still had 70% more resistance than necessary.