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    Alberto Santos-Dumont, self-stylized as Alberto Santos=Dumont, (20 July 1873 – 23 July 1932) was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, and one of...
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    Santos Dumont Airport (IATA: SDU, ICAO: SBRJ) is the second major airport serving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is named after the Brazilian aviation pioneer...
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    canard-style biplane designed and built by Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. In 1906, near Paris, the 14-bis made a manned powered flight that was...
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    The Santos-Dumont Demoiselle was a series of aircraft built in France by the Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. They were light-weight...
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    Propeller moonlet Santos-Dumont from lit (top) and unlit sides of rings...
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    The Santos-Dumont No. 6 was an airship designed and built by the Brazilian pioneer aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont. In 1901 it was used by him to win the...
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  • Through his career, aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont designed, built, and demonstrated a variety of types of aircraft—balloons, airships (dirigibles)...
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    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...
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    Santos-Dumont is a small lunar impact crater that lies in the northern end of the Montes Apenninus range at the eastern edge of the Mare Imbrium. It is...
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  • Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian aviation pioneer Santos-Dumont may also refer to: Santos-Dumont Airport, second major airport serving Rio de Janeiro...
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    Edifício Santos Dumont is an office skyscraper with a circular footprint located in the Centro neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The building,...
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  • Claims to the first powered flight (category Alberto Santos-Dumont)
    1903. It is popularly held in Brazil that their native citizen Alberto Santos-Dumont was the first successful aviator, discounting the Wright brothers' claim...
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    of Alberto Santos-Dumont. Inaugurated on October 19, 1913, it sits on a square near the old Aerostation of Saint-Cloud, where Santos-Dumont performed his...
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  • Santos Dumont is a Brazilian supercomputer that in 2022 ranked 178th on the TOP500 list of the world's fastest computers. It is housed in the state of...
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    Santos Dumont (formerly known as Palmira) is a municipality in southern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The population (2020) is estimated to be 46,421 and...
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    Rodovia Santos Dumont (officially designated SP-075) is a highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It runs in a north–south direction and interconnects...
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    their decision to pursue manned flight. In 1906, the Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont made what was claimed to be the first airplane flight unassisted by...
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    on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2023. "Cronologia De Santos Dumont". santos-dumont.net (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 18 March...
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    military operations related to World War II. At the end of the war, Santos Dumont Airport was unable to handle the increased tonnage of aircraft flying...
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  • Santos Dumont is a Brazilian mini-series produced by HBO Brazil that dramatizes the life of inventor Alberto Santos Dumont. The miniseries deals with the...
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  • Damsel, a young adult novel by Elana K. Arnold Damsel, a nickname for Santos-Dumont Demoiselle aircraft Search for "damsel" on Wikipedia. Damsel in Distress...
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    Santos Dumont" (in Portuguese). santos-dumont.net.Retrieved: 12 October 2010. Hoffman, Paul (2010). Asas da Loucura: A extraordinária vida de Santos-Dumont...
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  • and Varig initiated the air shuttle services between Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont and São Paulo-Congonhas airports, the first of its kind in the world...
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    PP-PBG en route from Rio de Janeiro–Santos Dumont to São Paulo–Congonhas crashed on the location of Pedra Branca, near Santo André. All 15 passengers and crew...
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  • specifically in a double-barreled name, was by pioneer aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, as he is also known not only to have often used a double hyphen ⹀ resembling...
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    removed 13 years later.[citation needed] On 19 October 1901, Alberto Santos-Dumont, flying his No.6 airship, won a 100,000-franc prize offered by Henri...
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  • Viação Aérea Santos Dumont, or VASD, was a Brazilian airline founded in 1944. It was bought by and merged into Transportes Aéreos Nacional in 1952. Viação...
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    The Santos-Dumont Merit Medal is a Brazilian decoration created to honor civilians and military, Brazilian or foreign, for outstanding services rendered...
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    and smart bombs. The term "canard" arose from the appearance of the Santos-Dumont 14-bis of 1906, which was said to be reminiscent of a duck (canard in...
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    government-funded (unlike other experimenters such as Ader, Maxim, Langley, and Santos-Dumont). The Wright brothers did not have the luxury of being able to give...
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