1. Amanda Aparecida da Silva

6. In the three following years  For example, at that time steam and electric engines were used in dirigible balloons. Santos Dumont was the first one to use an internal combustion engine in a lighter than air machine.

7.  On October 19, 1901  Predetermined 11 km  Thus winning the Deutsch de la Meurthe Prize.  100.000 francs

9.  “It has never been done,but that is the distinctive sign of all innovations!”-Santos Dumont 1905

10.  In 1906, the milionaire Ernst Archdeacon offered the Archdeacon cup and a prize of 3.000 francs for the first who could take off and fly a distance of at least 25m in a self propelled heavier than air machine

12.  183 cubic meters that used a helix at the bow  During the first tests of the new heavier than air machine, the aircraft was attached to the balloon No. 14, thus originating the name 14-bis.

13.  On October 23,1906  Bagatelle field, France  61m  Reaching na altitude of about 2m/3m

14.  So, at exactly 4:45 p.m. on that day, in a moment that become known as “ a memorable minute in air navigation history”, a man was able to fly a heavier than air machine for the first time.

15.  The brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright said that they flew on December 17,1903,but even considering that it was true, they had flown only in a motorized glider,launched by a catapult, and this claim had not been official recorded and witnessed.  Santos Dumont was the first man who successfully flew a heavier-than air machine taking off without any external assistance.

17.  Cosme Degenar Drumond, “Alberto Santos- Dumont: Novas Revelações”  Luiz Mott, Isto é Gente

18.  Alberto Santos Dumont,1932  Guarujá, São Paulo.

19.  After a hundred years, we all have to celebrate the audacious deed of a man who gave wings to the world and glory to Brazil