Santos-Dumont and the 100th Anniversary of the First Airplane Flight
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Aeronautics
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : Yves Allard
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Page : 45 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2006
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Page : 45 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2006
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Author : Alexandre Brigole
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : Peter Wykeham
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : Aluízio Napoleão
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Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : Michael Gough
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 078647100X
Three years after American raceplanes failed dismally in the most important air race of 1920, a French magazine lamented that American "pilots have broken the records which we, here in France, considered as our own for so long." The Pulitzer Trophy Air Races (1920 through 1925), endowed by the sons of publisher Joseph Pulitzer in his memory, brought about this remarkable turnaround. Pulitzer winning speeds increased from 157 to 249 mph, and Pulitzer racers, mounted on floats, twice won the most prestigious international air race--the Schneider Trophy Race for seaplanes. Airplanes, engines, propellers, and other equipment developed for the Pulitzers were sold domestically and internationally. More than a million spectators saw the Pulitzers; millions more read about them and watched them in newsreels. This, the first book about the Pulitzers, tells the story of businessmen, generals and admirals who saw racing as a way to drive aviation progress, designers and manufacturers who produced record-breaking racers, and dashing pilots who gave the races their public face. It emphasizes the roles played by the communities that hosted the races--Garden City (Long Island), Omaha, Detroit and Mt. Clemens, Michigan, St. Louis, and Dayton. The book concludes with an analysis of the Pulitzers' importance and why they have languished in obscurity for so long.
Author : Paul Hoffman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 35,13 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 : Henrique Dumont Villares
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 1956
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Author : Paul G. Partington
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Aeronautics
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