Alberto Santos-Dumont
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Page : 73 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1996
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Page : 73 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : Fernando Hippólyto da Costa
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Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 1987*
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : Paul Hoffman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1841153680
"By the turn of the century, Santos-Dumont had moved to Paris. Soon, the dashing and impeccably dressed aeronaut was barhopping around the city in a one-man dirigible he invented, circling above crowds and crashing into rooftops. Eventually, he would join the world-wide competition to build the first true airplane. Once he succeeded, the press hailed him as the man who had conquered the air. (Because the Wright brothers worked in near secrecy, word of their first flights had not widely reached Europe when Santos-Dumon took to the skies.) His picture appeared on cigar boxes and dinner plates and he dined regularly with the Cartiers, the Rothschilds, and the Roosevelts, hosting "aerial dinners" in which his guests ate at an elevated table so they could imagine how it felt to be above the world." "But all would change after Santos-Dumont witnessed the destructive capacity of flying machines in World War I."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Fernando Hippólyto da Costa
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Page : 77 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : Fernando Hippólyto da Costa
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Page : 77 pages
File Size : 39,5 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : Paul Hoffman
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Page : 369 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2008-02
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ISBN : 9781422394113
The story of man¿s struggle to fly is full of larger-than-life personalities, but none was so eccentric & so entertaining as Alberto Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian 'father of aviation¿. He was the darling of the international press in the first decade of the 20th century, hopping from Parisian restaurant to nightclub in his personal flying machine, circling the Eiffel Tower in his balloon or dining with the Rothschilds & Roosevelts. But he was depressed by the success of the Wright brothers in Kitty Hawk & by the increasing militarization of flight. He returned to Brazil only to be confronted by the horrors of civil war. ¿Hoffman tells the tale of Santos-Dumont & modern flight with wit & sympathy, showing us how often brilliance is coupled with tragedy.¿ Illustrations.
Author : Peter Wykeham
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : Victoria Griffith
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781419700118
Profiles Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made great strides in the invention of flight.
Author : Alexandre Brigole
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Aeronautics
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Aeronautics
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