Brazilian aviation pioneer active mainly in France, one of the few people to contribute significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air flight, building airships in the early 1900s and, in 1906, flying the 14-bis before a Paris audience. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Source Wikipedia: Alberto Santos-Dumont
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one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft
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Alberto Santos-Dumont (self-stylised as Alberto Santos=Dumont; 20 July 1873
Pioneered: Airship Transport, lead section
He designed, built, and flew the first powered airships and won the Deutsch prize in 1901, when he flew around the Eiffel Tower in his airship No. 6.
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