Santos Dumont Documentary

http://thenewsrider.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/diogo-mainardi-santos-dumont-e-a...

Resposta dos experts americanos aos dois textos do Diogo Mainardi sobre Santos-Dumont:

http://veja.abril.com.br/idade/exclusivo/110309/mainardi.shtml

http://veja.abril.com.br/idade/podcasts/mainardi/integra_110309.html

In the early 1900s, the most acclaimed celebrity in Europe, and arguably the world, was a fashionable, frail, Brazilian-born aviator named Alberto Santos-Dumont. The first to fly an airplane in Europe, Santos also built and flew the first practical dirigibles, or powered balloons. At a period when most balloons were at the mercy of the wind and many still thought the airplane an impossibility, Santos's bold exploits created a sensation. He was the spiritual father of aviation, and at the same time, a flying P.T. Barnum, intrepidly demonstrating his incredible flying machines in Paris, London, New York, and St. Louis.

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[MrRichforlife]

Do we catapult planes today to fly? or we use wheels like Santos? do we depend on wind to fly today? or we speed on a runway and take off like Santos? Stop being silly Americans, you have acomplish a lot through the centuries, well done, but the TRUE FATHER OF AVIATION IS SANTOS DUMONT. God bless.

[agodinho64]

Santos-Dumont wanted the world to have the benefits of flight. The Wrights were only interested in lining their pockets with gold… However, it is important to note that Alberto Santos-Dumont is still considered the father of powered flight.

[LusitanianTenebre]

All i have to say is: "With a catapult even an elephant can fly"! ;)

[blackass58]

Alberto S. D. his name was never forgotten or will be, Nois enventar Brazilians do not need a trip to the moon, we must not kill our compatriots (FARC a terrorist attack), etc., because our meristem will not be taken over a farce ...

[blackass58]

Alberto S. D. seu nome nunca foi ou sera esquecido, nois BRASILEIROS nao precisamos enventar uma ida a lua, nao precisamos matar nossos compatriotas ( num atentado terrorista FARÇA) e etc, por que nossos meristos nao seram em cima de uma farça...

[jotathenoble]

@bphatboyjohn123 You believe that WB made the first airplane, why? Because they were north americans, patriotism, you guys achieved alot of goals, but this one is not yours. Wrigths were pioneers on HTA, by using a glider, why a glider? Because it needed external help, that wasn't Dumont's goal, he's objective was to make an airplane, and he did, in front of thousands of peoples 14 bis took off, and landed, the cause of his suicide was the fact that the govern used his models to war.

[bphatboyjohn123]

@jotathenoble my beliefs? what wrights invented flying, fact. lol. not my belief lol. his never even flyed, and he's? baloons? and to suicide himself? lol. u don't make any sense man, learn proper grammar. lol you make no sense.

[jotathenoble]

@bphatboyjohn123 He's plane? Took off, alot of people saw it doing so. He's Upgrades? Changed the way that people saw Blips and Baloons. He's latter blueprints and plane concepts? Modified by french aviation, used on WWI, that even caused him to suicide himself, what he most loved to made, turned into a war machine, Wrights did an HTA flight, however, didn't worked well wen used on WWI. And I don't hate north americans, just those ones stupid enought to put their beliefs in front of true facts.

[bphatboyjohn123]

@jotathenoble yeah but his so called plane that couldn't even fly, was made years after the wrights were, and everyone has a big ego you dipshit, so everyone who is not american don't have an ego? lol. get over yourself and your hate for america, jealous much? lol. doesn't look upgraded, just looks like its gliding on the ground, and u never see it take off? lol. also the wrights was not a glider, gliders don't have engines and can fly in the air, it went up, not glided down, duh!

[jotathenoble]

@bphatboyjohn123 He didn't took anything from Wrights, he designed by itself his plane, not to mention the baloons and upgrades that he did in early aviation, americans have an big ego, I don't expect that you will understand that. And Wrights Plane? No, you mean a glider, you can check that in the early aviation, america was way behind europe, as Dummont model was upgraded to the firsts planes, while america took a pushback. Use proofs, not your ego, dumbass.

[bphatboyjohn123]

@jotathenoble it wasn't a catapult, lol. it was the first one made, couldn't just start flying straight from the ground, santos took their plans and ideas and made it later, still not better seeing as it didn't even fly up, just glided on the ground, once up the wrights plane could fly wherever. lol

[jotathenoble]

@bphatboyjohn123 Taking of by itself is diferent that using catapults and or external help, retard.