Did you know that the Brazilian engineer Santos-Dumond would be the father of the aviation?

The engineer Alberto Santos-Dumond was the first one on built and flew 'dirigible' balloons under total control. In 1901, he rounded the Eiffel Tower by air and won the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize.



Although the Wright Brothers were the first ones that could fly with a flying machine in 1903, Santos-Dumond was the first one to show, in a public European event, an airplane that was witnessed by the European press and French aviation authorities to take off and successfully fly (1906).

There is a possibility to do a new cover of the British film "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machine (1965)". If this is true, a Brazilian role must be included to commemorate his memory.

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