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Es ist sehr zu begrüßen, dass Wikipedia sehr genau und faktentreu ist. Aber könnte man vielleicht ein paar Sätze in den Artikel aufnehmen, mit deren Hilfe auch durchschnittlich Gebildete ihren Kindern glaubhaft machen können, dass Herr Dumont etwas Wichtiges geleistet hat, das die Brüder Wright nicht vor ihm hinbekommen hatten? --2003:DE:2F1F:FC04:ED7A:AA0A:A850:2B9B 17:46, 20. Jul. 2023 (CEST)Beantworten

The Morris Tribune. [volume], September 29, 1906, Image 7

KEEPING TAB ON THE WORLD

Concluded from page 2.

Santos Dumont's Mechanical Flight.

Although M. Santos-Dumont in his new aeroplane, the Bird of Prey, was able to traverse the air at Paris only a distance of thirty-seven feet before his ship came to the ground with a crash, nevertheless the test is regarded as one of great importance because it was the first time an airship had ever left the earth unaided.

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Nature – November 8, 1906, Page 35

The First “Manned” Flying Machine.

OCTOBER 23 of the present year will be remembered as a red-letter day in the history of flying machines, for it was on that day that the first flying machine, constructed on the “heavier than air” principle, successfully raised itself and its driver from the ground several feet, and transported itself by means of its own power over a distance of eighty yards.

In this his first successful flight with this machine. M. Santos Dumont is to be sincerely congratulated, for he has accomplished a performance which many workers in different parts of the world have been striving after for many years past and failed.

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New-York Tribune. [volume], November 20, 1906, Page 6, Image 6

SANTOS-DUMONT ANTICIPATED.

A fresh reason for determining the amount of glory due to Santos-Dumont for his recent flights with an aeroplane is afforded by an article in the latest number of "Nature" to reach this country. In that periodical it is asserted that on October 23 "the first flying machine, constructed on the 'heavier than air' principle, successfully raised itself and its driver from the ground several feet, and transported itself by means of its own power over a distance of eighty yards." While that statement is probably correct, the merit of the performance can be rightly estimated only by a comparison with what Wilbur and Orville Wright, of Dayton, Ohio, have been able to accomplish.

Santos-Dumont has been at work on the aeroplane only about a year. Most of his aeronautic experiments were conducted with an entirely different class of airship, the self-propelled balloon. On the other hand, the Wright brothers have been identified with the aeroplane for at least four or five years and perhaps longer. In a letter to the Aero Club of America, last winter they told the results attained by them up to the close of 1905. So startling were their claims that in France and Germany their story was received with much skepticism. With a creditable desire to vindicate the honor of the country, ''The Scientific American" addressed a circular letter of inquiry to seventeen persons who, according to the Wrights, had witnessed their aerial voyages. Twelve responses were received, one of them coming from Mr. Octave Chanute, the author of a well known work on aeronautic experiments and a man whose veracity no well informed foreigner or American would venture to question. The testimony of each of these witnesses was in substantial agreement with that of the others. Though now and then doubt would be expressed as to the exact date of a flight, the distance covered or some other detail, the general tenor of the letters seemed to put the truthfulness of the Wrights' statement quite beyond dispute.

It is worthy of note, in the interests of justice, that the Brazilian has made better provision for launching an aeroplane than the Wrights did last year. His machine, when on the ground, is supported by wheels. When the Wrights were ready to start, theirs was arranged crosswise on a pair of rails. To overcome the friction between these and the lower part of the frame, it was necessary to rely on external aid. Their aeroplane would not lift itself clear of the rails until it had been pushed forward twenty-five or thirty feet by hand, whereas the one which has just created a sensation in Europe will advance without assistance as soon as the propellers begin to revolve and will rise shortly afterward unhelped. Strictly speaking, then, "Nature" is quite right when it says that Santos-Dumont's machine is the first to raise Itself by means of its own power.

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Evening Star. [volume], December 09, 1906, Sunday star, Page 5, Image 53

The Sunday Star, Washington, D. C., December 09, 1906—Part 4.

(Copyright, 1906, by John Elfreth Watkins.)

SANTOS-DUMONT is the first man to have performed aerial flight with a self-propelled machine heavier than the air which it displaced. He has solved a problem which has caused inventive geniuses to burn the midnight oil and toss restlessly upon their couches since centuries before the dawn of the Christian era. During three millenniums or more ambitious men have broken their hearts and their heads seeking the great goal which this fearless Brazilian has won within the past few weeks.

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Danville Intelligencer. [volume], January 04, 1907, Image 1

It remained for the world of 1906 to see the first mechanical navigation of the air from a standing start in a screw-propelled aeroplane. This was achieved by M. Santos-Dumont, at Paris, September 13. in his airship, the Bird of Prey.

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Flying Machines: practice and design – December, 1909, Page 54

Santos-Dumont, in November, 1906, with a petrol driven aeroplane machine, accomplished a short flight successfully, and so is probably the first man carried on a mechanically propelled flying machine. He accomplished a flight of 200 ft. at about 8 ft. from the ground, and secured the Archdeacon prize cup.

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Evening Star. [volume], February 05, 1911, Page 16, Image 40

HOW AVIATION STANDS TO-DAY

BY FRED T. JANE. Editor of "All the World's Airships"

Early Experiments

THE aëroplane is the antithesis of the dirigible. Unlike the latter, it makes no attempt to reproduce in air what a fish does in water. It seeks to do in the air what a bird does. At present it has advanced a step, in that its present practical exposition is no longer an imitation bird. It has got to adapting certain bird characteristics instead.

Twenty years ago any man who even thought that heavier than air flying might become possible was regarded as a lunatic. Ten years ago anyone who tried to make such a thing was regarded with gravest suspicion. Early experiments were regarded as pure folly.

Then came the boxkite, able to lift men. It was obvious that if an engine could be made to do the essential work of a boxkite string, a kite would need no string, and be a flying machine. Santos-Dumont, the first man to fly on a heavier than air machine, did so on a series of boxkites which subsequently developed into the well known Voisin type of aëroplane. Henry Farman in one of the Voisin machines proved that controlled flight in a heavier than air machine was possible.

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The Democratic Advocate. [volume], January 11, 1907, Image 1

Address By President Armstrong.

William H. Armstrong, former president of the Maryland State Turnpike Association, delivered the following address at the meeting held in Hagerstown on December 29:

“In the near future, there may float in the ocean of air above us, simulachres of those winged monsters of the paleozoic age, that lived by the shores of nameless lakes and left their ‘footprints in the sands of time.' These griffins of the sky will be the aeroplanes of Santos Dumont, and may be the evolution ary successors of the horse, the automobile and the trolley. They will carry their freight, in cars less costly, against a material less resistant than earth or water and be operated at an expense less than the vehicles now used by man.

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Greene County Herald., May 17, 1907, Image 4

Air Ships, the Rage in Paris.

M. Santos-Dumont Building a New Aeroplane with Smaller Wings—To Have Great Speed—But Brazilian Aeronaut Has Not Abandoned Idea of Perfecting Steerable Balloons—Legislation For Aviators— Holland Proposes Fine of $200 For Any Balloonist Descending in Dutch Territory.

Aerial navigation is the rage just now, cables the Paris correspondent of the New York Herald. M. Santos-Dumont's epoch making flight a few months ago has convinced the world that the subject is not the dream of visionaries, like perpetual motion or the philosopher’s stone. Since then feverish activity has reigned in aeronautical circles. Many machines are being built and hundreds are being planned.

M. Santos-Dumont, as the first living man to construct a successful aeroplane, is naturally regarded as chief authority on the matter. Particular interest consequently attaches to the details of his projects, which he has just made public in the European edition of the Herald. His experiments with the aeroplane, which he christened the Bird of Prey, were so satisfactory that the one he is now building is of the same form but smaller and lighter.

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Scientific American – December 14, 1907, Page 445.

SANTOS DUMONT'S LATEST AEROPLANE.

BY OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.

No one at home or abroad has shown so much energy in the solution of the questions of high-speed air and water navigation as Santos Dumont. The rapidity with which he changes from experimentation with an aeroplane to skimming the water with a hydroplane, and then back again to an aeroplane, is truly amazing. If the hydroplane does not succeed, or if the aeroplane gets smashed, he is soon afloat or afield again with a new and improved apparatus. Only a short time ago we illustrated his hydroplane, and now we take pleasure in showing our readers his latest aeroplane, with which he has signified his intention of competing for the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN trophy.

This latest aeroplane, which is Santos Dumont's nineteenth machine, is the lightest and simplest flyer which he has thus far produced, which accounts for its rapid construction in two weeks' time. Instead of having double surfaces, as did all his previous aeroplanes, "No. 19" is a monoplane made up of two wings set at a dihedral angle. This monoplane is 5.1 meters (16.73 feet) long (spread of the wings) by 2 meters (6.56 feet) wide (from front to back), and it is mounted upon a suitable framework of steel tubing, which is in turn carried upon three pneumatic-tired wheels that are slightly inclined outward, so that they are farther apart at the bottom than at the top.

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume], November 07, 1909, Sunday Edition, THIRD SECTION, Page 23, Image 23

Santos Dumont Was the First Real Air Passenger

Every great advance toward the conquest of the air, whether it be made by the Wright brothers, Curtiss, Bleriot, Latham or any of the host of others who are now directing their attention toward solving the problem, reflects some credit on Santos-Dumont.

He brought about the present extraordinary interest in aeronautics. His experiments, beginning a decade ago with a dirigible balloon and continuing to his present aeroplane of today, were the spur that started hundreds of experimenters.

The little Brazilian, resident of Paris for so long, and fitting so thoroughly into the life of the metropolis, has been believed by many to be a Frenchman, but he is a South American by birth, and his father is immensely wealthy.

It is a curious contradiction that from the coffee fields of Brazil rather than from the capitals of Europe should come the man who is really the inspiration of the last few years' wonderful advance in conquering the air.

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The Evening Statesman. [volume], September 29, 1909, Page Four, Image 4

SANTOS-DUMONT TO THE FRONT.

M. Santos-Dumont has emerged from his seclusion with an aeroplane of his own invention both smaller and swifter than those of his rivals. We are told also that its wings spread only a sixth as many square feet as does the machine of his best known rivals, the Wrights; with its one passenger on board it weighs but 240 pounds, and in its first public flights it made a speed of fifty-five miles an hour. Truly this is something worth waiting for, and we now understand what Santos-Dumont was doing in the time when he was silent. It is almost inconceivable that an art that is only in its infancy should bring such remarkable results so soon. It seems but yesterday that the first announcement was made to the world that a heavier-than-air machine actually flew. Yet Santos-Dumont now comes forward with a small and compact little craft weighing, with him on board only 260 pounds and accomplishing the astonishing speed of 55 miles an hour.

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The Intermountain Catholic., October 23, 1909, Page 3, Image 3

Santos Dumont First Flyer.

(From the New York Press.)

Pan-America rejoices that our gallant premier aviator, Santos Dumont, again strides the blast to the tune of 55 miles the hour. He is a rara avis; indeed, the first who flew in public and showed an astounded world the miracle of a man's flight. He is a whole world prodigy, and his name should be fastened to a star or bestowed upon the first convenient coming comet. Brazil may cut the name of Dumont in letters 50 feet high across the face of the peak of the Sugar Loaf mountain at the entrance to the harbor of Rio de Janeiro as a monument of Miltonic majesty to the Brazilian eagle. His father, old man Dumont, a Frenchman, was the pioneer coffee man in the big Santos district of Brazil. He sold out his plantation a number of years ago to a syndicate. Two brothers are quiet bankers in the city of San maulo, Brazil. Santos was believed for a long time to be a mere nutty spendthrift.

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Popular Mechanics – Vol. 13. No. 6. June, 1910.

HOW TO BUILD THE FAMOUS "DEMOISELLE" SANTOS-DUMONT'S MONOPLANE

By ARTHUR E. JOERIN AND A. CROSS, A. M.

(Paris)

FROM time to time vague descriptions of the manner of constructing aeroplanes have been given to the public. All over the United States there are thousands of persons who are intensely interested in the subject of aerial flight, but until now nothing of a tangible nature has been presented on which work could be started with a reasonable prospect of success. It is a great satisfaction therefore, to be able to present the working drawings of the wonderful monoplane invented by M. Santos-Dumont. As the authors point out, however, it would be useless for anyone not possessed of some mechanical skill, and plenty of common sense, to attempt to construct a copy of the famous flyer, even with such detailed workings and instructions. — THE EDITOR.

FOLLOWING the announcement, made some months ago by Alberto Santos-Dumont that he intended to give the plans of his latest aeroplane, the "Demoiselle," to the world in the interest of aeronautics, great interest has been centered in the wonderful monoplane. It is the lightest and smallest of all heavier-than-air machines, yet is thoroughly practical. It was with this monoplane that the renowned aviator made a flight from St. Cyr to Buc, on the 13th of September last at a speed of 56 miles an hour.

This machine is better than any other which has ever been built, for those who wish to reach results with the least possible expense and with a minimum of experimenting. The plans which accompany this article are identical with those from which the machines are now being built in France.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Mechanics/Volume_13/Issue_6/How_to_Build_the_Famous_%22Demoiselle%22_Santos-Dumont_Monoplane

The Spokane Press. [volume], October 13, 1910, Page 2, Image 2

Quits "Avaiting" For Star Study

(United Press Leased Wire)

PARIS, Oct. 13.—Santos Dumont, the first man to fly, has quit the game for good. He has taken up astronomy as a fad, and is building a giant observatory near Deauville, on the Atlantic coast, where he can study the stars.

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Newark Evening Star and Newark advertiser. [volume], February 08, 1915, HOME EDITION, Page 8, Image 8

AMERICA GETS A FAMOUS AIRMAN.

It is good news for the interests of aviation in this country that Santos-Dumont, the famous Brazilian airman, is to make the United States his permanent home. This, for America, is one of the fortunate results of the war, as Santos-Dumont in recent years has been devoting himself to the development of aviation in France.

Santos-Dumont years ago startled the world as a pioneer navigator of the dirigible balloon, and has the distinction of the first public flight in an aeroplane. He will be an immense help to popularizing aviation in the United States. If the nation has a few thousand citizen aviators it will be an immensely valuable aeronautic reserve.

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Evening Star. [volume], January 09, 1916, Page 4, Image 22

The Sunday Star, Washington, D. C., January 9, 1916-Part 2.

THE WAR'S GEOGRAPHICAL LESSONS

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On the oriental front it was the 3.000 automobiles of Gen. Hindenburg which changed the issue of the furious battle of Bzoura, also called the battle of Lodz. Thus the automobile is another lesson of the war of which the Germans believed that they alone possessed the secret under the head of "mobel machen." Von Hindenburg's Automobiles.

The actual war has become a subject of incessant disquietude and tension on the part of neutral states which, notwithstanding their good intentions in the matter of their neutrality, are attacked and their rights as neutrals violated. This disquietude has proved a latent factor certainly in the meeting at Washington these days of the Pan-America Scientific Congress. The congress has discussed the ways and means to a closer union for the development of their commerce and their mutual protection, bearing in mind the semiofficial threat of a distinguished military visitor two years before the war.

There was nothing more natural than that aviation from a scientific and economical point of view should be a special subject of discussion by this congress of pan-Americans, all the more that there was present as a member of the congress the man who is considered as the pioneer and father of modern aviation, M. Alberto Santos-Dumont.

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The Ogden Standard. [volume], February 26, 1916, 4 P.M. CITY EDITION, MAGAZINE SECTION, Image 16

Magazine Feature Section

Aeronautics

REPRESENTATIVES of leading aero associations of the United States and the principal countries of Central and South America will meet at Santiago, Chile, next month for the purpose of forming an aeronautic federation of the western hemisphere. In brief, the proposed organization will be a union of clubs and societies that control aeronautics in their respective countries American continent. The federation will have charge of the regulation of aeronautics on the American continent; it will be directed and administered by the usual officers and a board consisting of five delegates from each country.

An effort will be made to make New York the headquarters of the federation, where permanent offices will be maintained.

The Aero Club of America has made an offer of a $10,000 Pan-American aviation trophy, to be competed for by the representatives of the different countries, the first contest for which is to take place at Rio Janeiro. The club has selected Albertos Santos-Dumont as its representative at the Chile meeting, and the noted aviator is now on his way there.

The organization, if successfully carried out, would mean a wonderful impetus to aeronautics in the western hemisphere.

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El Imparcial., San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 09, 1919, Page 3.

ENGLISH SECTION

OPINIONS OF MY OWN

BY Claudio Capó.

ON AIR NAVIGATION

Air navigation, which is in its infancy, has progressed wonderfully since it first became a practical proposition. Of course, man must have thought of the convenience of being able to fly, since the very moment he perceived other animals going through space. But is is only within the present generation that real progress has been made in the science of aerial navigation, and at the rate it goes we should not be at all surprised if one of these days a trip to the Moon were seriously considered.

If we remember right, Santos Dumont was the first man to flew in a heavier-than-air machine. The Wright Brothers are spoken of in the United States as the first inventors to make of the art a practical proposition. Of the lighter-than-air devices, the most famous are those constructed by Count Zeppelin.

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July 20, 1969 = Apollo 11 = Moon

One Giant Leap For Mankind

Santos Dumont (20 July, 1873 – 23 July, 1932)

July 20, 1969

July 20, 1873

International Astronomical Union – Santos-Dumont (crater)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos-Dumont_(crater)

Santos-Dumont propeller

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The New York Times, December 17, 1951. Page 30

----WRIGHT TRIBUTE TODAY

Airmen to Mark Anniversary of Kitty Hawk Flight

KITTY HAWK. N.C, Dec.16 (U P) – Modern airmen will pay tribute here tomorrow to the forty-eighth anniversary of the Wright Brothers' pioneering airplane flight, but an old-timer who watched the first take-offs said the celebrators have picked the wrong day.

Wilbur and Orville Wright are credited with making their first powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine on Dec. 17, 1903. But Alpheus W. Drinkwater, 76 years old, who sent the telegraph message ushering in the air age, said the brothers only "glided" off Kill Devil Hill that day.

Their first real flight came on May 6, 1908, he said. It was on that day, that Wilbur Wright declared the airplane was a mighty fine contraption, but predicted it would never carry enough gasoline to span an ocean.

Regardless of his quibble with aeronautics historians; Mr. Drinkwater will be on hand for the celebration tomorrow. The first flight will be marked by flights of jet planes, helicopters and huge cargo planes.

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The Wilmington Messenger Thursday. May 26, 1904. Page 6

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Elizabeth City Economist: A gentleman visiting this city whose home is in Kitty Hawk, is responsible for the asserton that the Wright brothers, of airship fame, will return to Kitty Hawk in the near future and resume work on their aerial monster. According to this gentleman the airship has never been removed from Kitty Hawk and nearly all the interviews published in the papers of Norfolk have been erroneous in this respect. This gentleman has assisted the Wrights in all their work and has a general supervision of their property during their absence. He says that they have not completed the ship and that they will return some time within the next month and resume their work. A story is current that they will complete the ship and make the trip from here to St. Louis sometime this fall.

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