My Airships: The Story Of My Life,New

My Airships: The Story Of My Life,New

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Brazilian Born, French Educated, Alberto Santosdumont Was Probably One Of Only A Few Aviation Pioneers Who Could Claim Significant Accomplishments In Both Lighterthanair And Heavierthanair Flying Machines. He Was The First Man To Succeed, Not Once But Time After Time, In Leaving The Ground, Flying Through The Air To A Place Of His Own Choosing, And Landing Safely. Around The Turn Of The Century He Was The Most Prominent Of All The Early Aviators, And His Balloons, Dirigibles And (Later In His Career) Heavierthanair Craft Were Frequently To Be Seen In The Air Around His Beloved City Of Paris. His Early Experiments Were In Dirigible Airships Of His Own Design. After Many Failures, He Built A Dirigible That In 1901 Won The Deutsch Prize, As Well As A Prize From The Brazilian Government, For Being The First To Fly In A Given Time From Saintcloud To The Eiffel Tower And Return. He Wrote My Airships When He Was 30 Years Old, In 1904. In It He Tells Of His Childhood In Brazil, His Early Fascination With Machinery And Passion For The Novels Of Jules Verne, His Early Success In France As An Enthusiastic Automobilist, His First Balloon Ascent In 1893, His Famous Balloon Brazil, And The Joys And Trials Of His First Ten Dirigibles (18981904). Referring To Himself As 'Inventor, Patron, Manufacturer, Amateur, Mechanician And Airship Captain All United,' He Describes Numerous Hairraising Scrapes With Death While Navigating The Air. Santos Reputation As An Airplane Designer Was Solidified By A Machine He Produced In 1909. The Famous 'Demoiselle' Or 'Grasshopper' Monoplane, Was The Forerunner Of The Modern Light Plane. Santos Eventually Returned To Brazil Where, Depressed Overthe Use Of Aircraft In War, He Committed Suicide.

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