Alberto Santos-Dumont
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Santos-Dumont then progressed to powered heavier-than-air machines and on 23 October 1906 flew about 60 metres at a height of two to three metres with the fixed-wing ''14-bis'' (also dubbed the —"bird of prey") at the Bagatelle Gamefield in Paris, taking off unassisted by an external launch system. On 12 November in front of a crowd, he flew 220 metres at a height of six metres. These were the first heavier-than-air flights certified by the Aeroclub of France, the first such flights officially witnessed by an aeronautics recordkeeping body, and the first of their kind recognised by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
Santos-Dumont is a national hero in Brazil, where it is popularly held that he preceded the Wright brothers in demonstrating a practical aeroplane. Numerous roads, plazas, schools, monuments, and airports there are dedicated to him, and his name is inscribed on the Tancredo Neves Pantheon of the Fatherland and Freedom. He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1931 until his suicide in 1932. Provided by Wikipedia
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41by Alberto Santos, Vitor Cordeiro, Paulo Parente, Lurdes Carvalho, Rosalina Santos-Ribeiro, José Luís LousadaGet full text
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43by Armando Caballero López, Mauro López Ortega, Rafael Carmona Hernández, Armando Caballero Font, Luis Alberto Santos PérezGet full text
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44by Armando Caballero López, Mauro López Ortega, Rafael Carmona Hernández, Armando Caballero Font, Luis Alberto Santos PérezGet full text
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49by Ana Luiza Reis, Leonardo Oliveira Reis, Ricardo Destro Saade, Carlos Alberto Santos Jr., Marcelo Lopes de Lima, Adriano FregonesiGet full text
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51by Taís Somacal Novaes Silva, Bruno Tochetto Primo, Aurelício Novaes Silva Júnior, Denise Cantarelli Machado, Christian Viezzer, Luis Alberto SantosGet full text
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55by Judith A Cook, Lisa A Razzano, Margaret A Swarbrick, Jessica A Jonikas, Chantelle Yost, Larisa Burke, Pamela J Steigman, Alberto SantosGet full text
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56by María Isabel Romero-Hermida, Antonio María Borrero-López, Vicente Flores-Alés, Francisco Javier Alejandre, José María Franco, Alberto Santos, Luis EsquiviasGet full text
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57by Cleiton Fantin, Dorothy Ivila Melo Pereira, Jorge Frank Ferreira, Paulo Cesar Andrade Machado, Tomas Hrbek, Luiz Alberto Santos Monjeló, Izeni Pires FariasGet full text
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58by Jordi Sánchez-Ribas, Joseli Oliveira-Ferreira, John E. Gimnig, Cleomar Pereira-Ribeiro, Maycon Sebastião Alberto Santos-Neves, Teresa Fernandes Silva-do-NascimentoGet full text
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60by Jigisha Anupama, Margherita Francescatto, Farzana Rahman, Nazeefa Fatima, Dan DeBlasio, Avinash Kumar Shanmugam, Venkata Satagopam, Alberto Santos, Pandurang Kolekar, Magali Michaut, Emre GuneyGet full text
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