Alberto Santos-Dumont
Alberto Santos-Dumont (20 July 1873 – 23 July 1932) was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor,[1][2] and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers, he dedicated himself to aeronautical study and experimentation in Paris, where he spent most of his adult life. He designed, built, and flew the first powered airships and won the Deutsch prize in 1901, when he flew around the Eiffel Tower in his airship No. 6, becoming one of the most famous people in the world in the early 20th century.[3][4]
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| Died | 23 July 1932 (aged 59) Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Resting place | São João Batista cemetery |
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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 Oiseau de proie—"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,[5][6] and the first of their kind recognised by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.[5][7][8]
Santos-Dumont is a national hero in Brazil, where it is popularly held that he preceded the Wright brothers in demonstrating a practical aeroplane.[9][10] 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.
Childhood edit
Alberto Santos-Dumont was the sixth child of Henrique Dumont, an engineer who graduated from the Central School of Arts and Manufactures in Paris, and Francisca de Paula Santos. The couple had eight children, three sons and five daughters: Henrique dos Santos-Dumont, Maria Rosalina Dumont Vilares, Virgínia Dumont Vilares, Luís dos Santos Dumont, Gabriela, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Sofia, and Francisca.[11] In 1873, the family moved to the small town of Cabangu, in the municipality of João Aires,[12]: 305 [A] for Henrique Dumont to work on the construction of the D. Pedro II railroad. The construction work finished when Alberto was 6, and the family moved to São Paulo.[14]: 17 [B] Here he began to show signs of his aeronautical interest; according to his parents, at the age of one he used to puncture rubber balloons to see what was inside.[16] He was baptised in Valença at the Matriz de Santa Teresa on 20 February 1877, by Teodoro Teotônio da Silva Carolina.[17]
In 1879, the Dumonts sold their farm in Valença, Rio de Janeiro, and settled in Sítio do Cascavel, in Ribeirão Preto, where they bought the Arindeúva Farm,[19]: 7 [C] of José Bento Junqueira, producing 1200 bushels.[D] Until he was 10, he was taught by his older sister, Virginia.[23]: 29 From 10 to 12 years old[E] he studied at Colégio Culto à Ciência.[19]: 9 [25]: 14 [23]: 29 He then attended Colégio Kopke in São Paulo, Colégio Morton, and Colégio Menezes Vieira in Rio de Janeiro,[25]: 14 [F] and later at the School of Engineering from Minas, without finishing the course.[23]: 32 He was not considered an outstanding student, studying only what interested him, and extending his studies independently in his father's library.[23]: 31 By this time he already displayed the refined manners that would later become part of his image in France,[23]: 31 and an introverted personality.[23]: 32 He saw his first human flight in São Paulo at the age of 15, in 1888,[G] when the aeronaut Stanley Spencer ascended in a spherical balloon and parachuted down.[26] After a family trip to Paris in 1891, he became interested in mechanics, especially the internal combustion engine. From then on, he never stopped searching for alternatives, receiving from the City Council of Ribeirão Preto, according to Law no. 100, of 4 November 1903, a million réis subsidy to continue his researches that, three years later, resulted in the creation of his aeroplane.[27] A newspaper of the time stated that Santos-Dumont would only accept if "...that amount was intended for an aircraft contest prize."[28]
Santos-Dumont would remember with nostalgia the times spent on his father's farm, where he enjoyed the greatest freedom:
I lived a free life there, which was indispensable to form my temperament and taste for adventure. Since childhood I had a great love for mechanical things, and like all those who have or think they have a vocation, I cultivated mine with care and passion. I always played at imagining and building little mechanical devices, which entertained me and earned me high regard in the family. My greatest joy was taking care of my father's mechanical installations. That was my department, which made me very proud.[29]
At the age of seven Santos-Dumont was already driving the farm's trains, and at twelve he could operate a locomotive on his own, but the speed achievable on land was not enough for him.[30]: 23 [31] By observing coffee machines he deduced that oscillatory machines wore out more, while those with circular motion were more efficient.[32]: 36
By reading the works of Jules Verne, with whose fictional heroes he was later compared[33]: 45 and who he would meet in adulthood,[34]: 57 Santos-Dumont got the desire to conquer the air.[31][33]: 98 The submarines, balloons, ocean liners, and vehicles that the novelist envisioned in his works made a deep impression on the boy's mind. Years later, as an adult, he still remembered the adventures lived in imagination:
With Captain Nemo and his shipwrecked guests I explored the depths of the sea in that first of all submarines, the Nautilus. With Phileas Fogg I went round the world in eighty days. In "Screw Island" and "The Steam House" my boyish faith leaped out to welcome the ultimate triumphs of an automobilism that in those days had not as yet a name. With Hector Servadoc I navigated the air.[35]: 22
Technology fascinated him. He began building kites and small aeroplanes powered by a propeller driven by twisted rubber springs,[14]: 29 as he says in a commentary on the letter he received the day he won the Deutsch prize, recalling his childhood: "This letter brings back to me the happiest days of my life, when I exercised myself in making light aeroplanes with bits of straw, moved by screw propellers driven by springs of twisted rubber, or ephemeral silk-paper balloons." (Santos-Dumont)[35]: 21 [36] Every year, on 24 June he would fill whole fleets of tiny silk balloons over the bonfires of St. John, to watch them climbing into the sky.[37]
Career edit
Mountaineering, motorsports and ballooning edit
In 1891, when he was 18, Santos-Dumont visited Europe.[38] In England he spent a few months practising his English, and in France he climbed Mont Blanc.[33]: 42 [39]: 34 This adventure, at an altitude of almost 5,000 metres, gave him a taste for heights.[4] The following year, his father had a serious accident, and released Alberto from parental care on 12 February 1892,[25]: 15 [40] advising him to focus on learning mechanics, chemistry, and electricity.[12]: 306 [39]: 33 [32]: 36 [H] With that, Alberto left the Ouro Preto Mining Engineering School[42]: 30 and returned to France where he took part in motor racing and cycling.[33]: 42 He also began technical and scientific studies with a professor of Spanish origin named Garcia.[14]: 44 [I] In 1894 Santos-Dumont travelled to the United States, visiting New York, Chicago, and Boston.[45] Around this time[J] he went on to study at Merchant Venturers' Technical College, but never graduated.[K] Agenor Barbosa described Santos-Dumont in this period as a "student of little diligence, or rather, not at all studious for 'theories', but of admirable practical and mechanical talent and, since then, revealing himself in everything, of inventive genius",[47][L] but who was later described by Agnor as someone focused on aviation from when "...'explosion engines' began to succeed."[32]: 36
In 1897, independent and heir to an immense fortune[M] which he invested in the development of his projects,[12]: 337 [N] applied in the stock market,[39]: 35 allowing him to work without being accountable to any investor.[43]: 226 [O] At 24 years of age, Santos-Dumont left for France, where he hired professional aeronauts to teach him ballooning after reading the book Andrée – Au Pôle Nord en ballon.[12]: 307 [P] On 23 March 1898, he made his first ascent in a Lachambre & Machuron balloon at a cost of 400 francs,[Q] later saying that: "I will never forget the genuine pleasure of my first balloon ascent".[12]: 307 That year, even before he was known as a balloonist, he began to be quoted by the media due to his involvement in motor racing.[51]: 239–240
On 30 May 1898 he made his first night ascent,[25]: 15 and the following month he started working as a captain, taking groups of passengers aloft in a hired balloon.[52]: 4 By 1900 he had created nine balloons, of which two became famous: the Brazil and the Amérique.[4] Brazil first flew on 4 July 1898,[14]: 58 and was the smallest aircraft built at the time – inflated with hydrogen, it covered 113 metres in a silk envelope[R] of 6 metres in diameter,[19]: 10 weighing 27.5 kg without the crewman[12]: 307 and made more than 200 flights.[14]: 386 [S] According to biographer Gondin da Fonseca, he was influenced to create his first balloon after racing at the Paris-Amsterdam race on his tricycle,[33]: 42 where he crossed 110 kilometers in two hours, abandoning after an accident.[53][T] The second balloon, Amérique, held 500m³ of hydrogen and was 10 metres in diameter, and was capable of carrying passengers.[32]: 37 With the second balloon he faced everything from storms to accidents.[54]: 2 In his first experiments he was awarded a prize by the French Aeroclub for his study of atmospheric currents; he reached high altitudes and stayed airborne for more than 22 hours.[52]: 4 Santos-Dumont advocated for government investment in aviation development[U] and the importance of public opinion, something previously noted by Júlio César Ribeiro de Sousa.[12]: 308
Airships edit
Airships, powered aerostats, were first demonstrated and patented by the Brazilian priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão in 1709, and were flown by the Montgolfier Brothers in 1783,[52]: 3 but until the late 19th century had yet to be mastered, having been attempted by Henri Giffard,[44]: 360 [V] Charles Renard and Arthur Constantin Krebs in a flight with an electric motor in a closed circuit[W] in a project abandoned by the French Army, and by the Brazilian Júlio César Ribeiro de Sousa, without success.[12]: 310 [X] Public demonstrations, such as those performed by Santos-Dumont, were important in the sceptical academic environment.[55]
Due to the weight of electric motors, Santos-Dumont chose the internal combustion engine. In initial tests, he hoisted the tricycle he had used in the Paris-Amsterdam race up a tree to check for vibration, which did not occur.[12]: 311 He modified the engine by putting the two cylinders on top of each other,[43]: 228 creating a lightweight 3.5 horsepower unit, which was the first internal combustion engine successfully used in aeronautics.[32]: 38 [Y] An article presented in CENDOC, Rio de Janeiro 2021, claims that the aeronautical movement in France was sparked by Santos-Dumont's experiments[20]: 24 and Santos-Dumont said he believed his experiences led to the founding of the Aéro-Club de France.[41]: 21
A detail raised by Santos-Dumont refers to the definition of what would be heavier than air: in June 1902 he published an article in the North American Review arguing that his work on airships was about aviation, because hydrogen gas itself was not capable of taking off, and engine power was also needed.[56] He also wrote: "...the flying-machine will be achieved only by the way of evolution, by making the air-ship pass through a series of transformations analogous to the metamorphoses by which the chrysalis becomes the winged butterfly."[57][58]
- No. 1
The first airship designed by Santos-Dumont, the No. 1, was 25 metres long with a volume of 186 cubic metres,[54]: 3 [Z] made its first takeoff attempt in February 1898,[AA] after being inflated in Henri Lachambre's workshops in Vaugirard. Snowy conditions caused the airship to flex and crash. "At a height of five or six metres, over Longchamp, the apparatus suddenly bent and the crash began. Of my entire career, this is the most abominable memory I have in store."[31][25]: 15
No. 1 was inflated again in the Aclimation Garden in Paris on 18 September 1898, but was damaged before it could fly, due to a misjudgement by the ground crew holding the ropes. Repaired two days later, the aircraft took off and flew. The air pump for the internal balloon, which kept the envelope rigid, did not work properly,[25]: 15 and the airship, at a height of 400 metres, began to flex and descend rapidly.[54]: 3 In an interview, Santos-Dumont told how he escaped death:
The descent was at a speed of 4 to 5 m/sec. It would have been fatal if I hadn't had the presence of mind to tell the passersby, spontaneously suspended from the dangling cable like a real human cluster, to pull the cable in the opposite direction to the wind. Thanks to this manoeuvre, the speed of the fall decreased, thus avoiding the greater violence of the shock. I thus varied my amusement: I went up in a balloon and came down in a kite.[60]
- No. 2
In 1899, Santos-Dumont built a new aircraft, No. 2, with the same length and similar shape, but a larger diameter of 3.8 metres, increasing the volume to 200 cubic metres.[14]: 387 To address the unreliability of the air pump which had almost killed him, he added a small aluminium fan to maintain pressure and rigidity.[61]
The first test was scheduled for 11 May 1899. At the time of the flight, rain made the balloon heavy. The demonstration consisted of simple manoeuvres with the aircraft attached by a rope, but ended in the adjacent trees. The airship had folded under the combined action of the contraction of the hydrogen and the force of the wind.[25]: 15 [62]
- No. 3
In September 1899 Santos-Dumont started the construction of a new elongated airship, the No. 3,[AB] inflated with lighting gas, 20 metres long and 7.5 metres in diameter, with a capacity of 500 cubic metres. The basket was the same one used in the two other aircraft.[14]: 89
At 3:30 pm on 13 November Santos-Dumont took off in No. 3 from Vaugirard Aerostation Park and went around the Eiffel Tower for the first time.[25]: 15 From the monument he went to the Parc des Princes then to the Bagatelle Gamefield in the Bois de Boulogne (near the Hippodrome of Longchamp). He landed at the exact spot where No. 1 had crashed, this time under control.[14]: 90–92
From that day on, I no longer had the slightest doubt about the success of my invention.[AC] I recognized that I would, for life, be dedicated to aircraft construction. I needed to have my workshop, my aeronautical garage, my hydrogen-generating apparatus, and a plumbing system to connect my installation to the illuminating gas pipelines.[30]: 113
Santos-Dumont had a large hangar built at the Saint-Cloud site, large enough to hold No. 3 when completely filled, as well as the equipment to make the hydrogen gas.[14]: 92 This hangar, completed on 15 June 1900, was 30 metres long, 7 metres wide, and 11 metres high.[25]: 15 [AD] It was no longer intended to house No. 3, which had been abandoned, but No. 4, completed on 1 August 1900.[25]: 15 With No. 3 he broke the record of 23 hours in the air.[14]: 93 He tried to fly almost every day, demonstrating the reliability and usefulness of his aircraft.[51]: 240
- No. 4
On 24 March 1900, the Jewish millionaire oil magnate Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe sent the President of the Aéro-Club de France, which had been founded two years earlier, a letter in which he promised 100,000 francs to anyone who could invent an efficient flying machine:[25]: 15
Desirous of contributing to the solution of the problem of air travel, I undertake to place at the disposal of the Air Club a sum of 100,000 francs, constituting a prize, under the title of the Air Club Prize, to the aeronaut who, leaving the park of Saint Cloud, Longchamps, or any other point situated at an equal distance from the Eiffel Tower, reaches this monument in half an hour, and, surrounding it, returns to the point of departure. (...) If one of the competitors is judged to have fulfilled the program, the prize will be awarded to him by the President of the Club himself, to whom I will immediately put the amount indicated above. If at the end of five years, beginning on April 15 of the current year, 1900, no one has won it, I consider my commitment null and void.[65][AE]
The challenge became known as the Deutsch Prize. The regulations stipulated that an aircraft must be able to fly to the Eiffel Tower, round the monument, and return to the place of ascent in no more than thirty minutes, without stops, a total of 11 kilometres, under the eyes of a commission from the Aeroclub de France convened at least one day in advance. This required a minimum average speed of 22 km/h.[14]: 94
The award encouraged Alberto Santos-Dumont to try faster flights with No. 4.[14]: 178 The aircraft was 420 cubic metres in volume, 29 metres long, and 5.6 metres in diameter.[14]: 388 [AF] Underneath was a 9.4-metre bamboo keel, in the middle of which were the saddle and pedals of an ordinary bicycle. Astride the saddle, the pilot had under his feet the starting pedals of a 7 hp engine, which powered a front propeller with two 4-metre long silk blades. Next to the pilot were ropes with which he could control the carburettor and valve settings, the rudder, ballast, and displacement weights.[14]: 95–97 Santos-Dumont made almost daily flights in No. 4 from Saint Cloud during August. On 19 September, before members of the International Congress of Aeronauts, he proved the effectiveness of an aerial propeller driven by an oil engine by flying repeatedly against the wind, even with a broken rudder, impressing the scientists present.[14]: 98–99 The general impression was that he would win the Deutsch Prize, and upon going to Nice after falling ill, he began designing No. 5.[12]: 314
- No. 5 and No. 6
No. 5 was built to compete for the Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe award[12]: 314 [AG] for a flight from the Aero-Club de France airfield in Saint-Cloud to the Eiffel Tower and back in 30 minutes. It used the extended envelope of No. 4, from which a triangular gondola[AH] made of pine was suspended. Other innovations included the use of piano wire to suspend the gondola, reducing drag, and the use of water ballast tanks. It was powered by a 12 hp, 4-cylinder air-cooled engine driving a propeller,[35]: 148–149
On 13 April the Santos-Dumont Prize was created. It was similar to the Deutsch Prize, but had no time limit.[25]: 16 [AI] On 13 July 1901,[AJ] After some experimental outings, Santos-Dumont competed with No. 5 in the Deutsch Award for the first time. It completed the required course, but exceeded the time limit for the race by ten minutes.[14]: 122–124 At that time, he met Princess Imperial Isabel, after an accident.[25]: 16 On 29 July he aborted a flight when he cut his fingers on the guide-rope; around that time French aeronauts started a smear campaign against Santos-Dumont.[14]: 131
On 8 May, trying for the prize again, he crashed his aircraft into the Hotel Trocadero;[19]: 11 the balloon exploded and was completely destroyed, but he escaped unscathed[14]: 134–138 and publicly tested the engine to show its reliability.[12]: 315 [AK] The accident was caused by one of the automatic valves having a weakened spring, which allowed the escape of gas.[54]: 4
After offering his own 21 cubic metre balloon which was under construction – and being politely refused – Henri Deutsch said, "I'm afraid the experiments will not be conclusive. Mr Santos-Dumont's balloon will always be at the mercy of the wind, and is therefore not the kind of aircraft we dream of."[14]: 140 Santos-Dumont crashed his No. 6 at the Longchamps racetrack on 19 September 1901.[20]: 59
On 19 October 1901, with the 622-cubic-metre No. 6 balloon powered by a 20 hp engine,[AL] he executed the test in 29 minutes and 30 seconds,[54]: 5 [AM] but it took about a minute to land, which caused the committee to initially deny the award.[AN] This became a matter of controversy, as the public and Deutsch believed that the aviator had won. After some time and the aviator protesting this decision, it was reversed. He became internationally recognised as the world's greatest aviator and the inventor of the airship. The prize was then 100,000 francs plus interest,[54]: 5 that Santos-Dumont distributed among his staff and the unemployed[71][3] and workers in Paris who for some reason had "pawned their tools of labor"[72] with help from the City Hall of Paris.[73][AO] A month before the event, by announcing this intention, he had obtained "unrestricted support from public opinion". The money was released on 4 November after a vote in which nine members of the Aeroclub opposed and fifteen supported.[12]: 316 This delay served to put public opinion further in Santos-Dumont's favour.[51]: 253 The same afternoon, he sent a letter of resignation to the Aeroclub.[74] Mauricio Pazini Brandão, in The Santos-Dumont legacy to aeronautics, says that this event should be considered as the certification of the airship.[52]: 5
After winning the Deutsch Prize, Santos-Dumont received letters from several countries, congratulating him;[14]: 177 [AP] magazines published lavish, richly illustrated editions to reproduce his image and perpetuate the achievement;[14]: 203 an Alexander Graham Bell interview in the New York Herald explored the reasons for Santos-Dumont's success, envy of other inventors, and the experiments that preceded him;[20]: 14 tributes were paid in France, Brazil, England, where the English Aero Club offered a banquet,[33]: 42 and several other countries. The president of Brazil, Campos Sales sent him prize money of 100 million réis[AQ] following the proposal of Augusto Severo,[51]: 245 as well as a gold medal with his effigy and an allusion to Camões: "Through skies never sailed before";[35]: 202 [28] The Brazilian people were apathetic,[20]: 12 and in January 1902, Albert I, Prince of Monaco invited him to continue his experiments in the Principality. He offered him a new hangar on the beach at La Condamine, and everything else Albert thought necessary for his comfort and safety,[14]: 180 which was accepted;[25]: 17 his success also inspired the creation of several biographies and influenced fictional characters, such as Tom Swift;[44]: 363 That April, Santos-Dumont travelled to the United States, where he visited Thomas Edison's laboratories in New York.[77] They discussed patents.[AR] The American asked Santos-Dumont to create the Aero Club of the US; when justifying not charging for demonstration flights in St Louis, Santos-Dumont said: "I am an amateur".[AS] After the meeting with Edison, Santos-Dumont told the American press that he did not intend to patent his aircraft.[33]: 43 He was received at the White House in Washington, DC, by President Theodore Roosevelt[77][70]: 260 and talked to U.S. Navy and Army officials about the possibility of using airships as a defence tool against submarines.[34]: 56 In July 1902, after the creation of the Aeroclub of the US, Santos-Dumont announced a series of flights in American territory. These did not take place, confusing the media and American public opinion.[51]: 247–248 He left New York in late 1902, without having made any flights,[51]: 249 and the American public did not consider his inventions to be practical.[51]: 254
At the beginning of the 20th century, Santos-Dumont was the only person in the world capable of controlled flight.[44]: 364 After his time in the US, he learned of the fatal accident of Augusto Severo and the suicide of his mother;[51]: 247 he returned to England, where he had left No. 6 being prepared for an exhibition at the Crystal Palace, as well as planning to fly into London.[51]: 246 The fabric of the airship was punctured, as confirmed by the balloonist Stanley Spencer.[51]: 247 The initial view was that the balloon had been cut with a knife, with Santos-Dumont stating that "...whole sections were cut and removed" and that he had previously experienced similar.[78]
- Monaco
In Monaco,[AT] after accepting Prince Albert's invitation, Santos-Dumont guided the construction of a 55 metre long, 10 metre wide and 15 metre high hangar, with doors he designed which weighed 10 tons,[51]: 245 [AU] on the Boulevard de La Condamine by the sea. On testing the guide wire over the sea, he found that it stabilised the aircraft in low-level flight.[54]: 5 Santos-Dumont also demonstrated that overall the aircraft behaved well over water, reaching up to 42 km/h (26 mph).[12]: 317 Its success made clear the potential military use of the aircraft, especially for anti-submarine warfare, but its flights in the principality were interrupted by a crash in the Bay of Monaco on 14 February 1902.[79] The crash was due to the balloon being "imperfectly filled when leaving the garage."[54]: 5–6 After the accident he began to perform a check list before each take-off, but No. 6 was badly damaged.[54]: 6 [AV]
- Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10
Santos-Dumont started to dedicate himself to the construction of new airship models, two years after he left Paris,[51]: 250 each one with a specific purpose: the No. 7, with 1,257 cubic metres[14]: 389 and 45 hp engine,[14]: 196 designed to be a racing airship, was tested in Neuilly (France) in May 1904.[AW] The following month the aircraft was sabotaged in an exhibition organised in St. Louis, United States,[AX] when a person who was never identified made four 1-metre cuts in the balloon which, because it was folded, resulted in forty-eight cuts in the envelope,[14]: 264 when it was in New York Customs.[33]: 29 [AY] On this trip, he also met the Wright Brothers.[80] No. 8 was a copy of No. 6 ordered by Edward Boyce,[51]: 249–250 vice president of the Aeroclub of America,[12]: 319 [AZ] having made a single flight in New York;[54]: 6 No. 9, with 261 cubic metres and 3 hp, was a travel airship, in which Santos-Dumont made several flights throughout 1903,[25]: 17 [BA] including the first night flight of an airship on 24 June, and the last of these came on 14 July,[12]: 304 when it took part in a military parade[30]: 225 in commemoration of the 114th anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille.[25]: 17 As he passed the President of the Republic, he fired 21 revolver shots into the air. The military considered the balloon to be a practical instrument for wartime.[30]: 226 Santos-Dumont placed himself and his flotilla of three aircraft at the disposal of the government in the event of war, provided it was not against the nations of the Americas and that, "in the impossible event of war between France and Brazil," he considered himself obliged to support his motherland.[83][34]: 56–57 The French military encouraged several industries to develop the technology proposed by Santos-Dumont.[51]: 251
The first woman to fly an aircraft was Aida de Acosta, on 29 June 1903, in No. 9.[84][85] The 11 August 1905 issue of La Vie au Grand Air describes the organisation of the second Coupe des Femmes Aéronautes[33]: 35 and in the second half of 1906, the magazine Le Sport Universel Illustré reported that three years after the start of the Grand Prix of the Aéro-Club de France, seven countries were already participating in the competition.[33]: 36
No. 10, a 2,010 cubic metre airship with a 60 hp engine, was large enough to carry several people and serve as public transport. It made a few flights in October 1903, but was never completely finished; No. 11 was an unmanned monoplane.[BB] No. 12 was a helicopter never completed due to the technological limitations of the time and finally, No. 13, a luxurious double hot air and hydrogen balloon.[86]
On his first return to Rio de Janeiro in 1903, a group of climbers put up a banner on Sugarloaf Mountain, beside Guanabara Bay, greeting the aviator on his return by ship from Europe.[33]: 45 On 7 September 1903, he returned as a hero and met the President of Brazil, Rodrigues Alves, at the Catete Palace. When asked why he did not fly in Brazil, Santos-Dumont justified himself that it was because he could not "...count on the help of his mechanics, and much less on a hydrogen production plant like he had in France." He returned to Paris on 12 October.[87][BC] In 1904 he was nominated as a Knight of the Legion of Honour of France, and published the work Dans L'Air, whose translation into Portuguese, Os Meus Balões (My Balloons), was published in Brazil in 1938.[25]: 18
Heavier-than-air flight edit
In October 1904, three aviation prizes were founded in France: the Archdeacon Prize, the French Aeroclub Prize, and the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize. The first, promoted by millionaire Ernest Archdeacon, would award 3,500 francs to anyone who flew 25 metres; the second, instituted by the French aeroclub, would award 1,500 francs ($300) to anyone who flew 100 metres; and the third, sponsored by Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe and Ernest Archdeacon, would award 1,500 francs to anyone who flew 1,000 metres.[14]: 281
With the exception of the Deutsch-Archdeacon Award, which prohibited the competing aircraft from using a balloon for launch, the other awards left the question of takeoff open. The flight could take place on flat or uneven terrain, in calm weather or wind – the French Aeroclub's Award required the flight to be into the wind – and the use of an engine was not mandatory. This allowed human-powered gliders and ornithopters to compete. It was required for all prizes that the race took place in France and under the supervision of an aeronautical commission convened no later than the evening of the previous day.[88]
Very little of what was required was new. Inventors in other countries had already met or exceeded some of the required goals.[BD] In Germany, Otto Lilienthal had made thousands of glider flights in the early 1890s, often reaching distances far greater than the 25 metres stipulated by the Archdeacon Prize. In the United States, the Wright brothers had been making ever longer flights in powered aeroplanes since 1903, their takeoffs aided by headwinds near Kitty Hawk and a catapult in Ohio, but without any official observers.[89][80][44]: 376 Lilienthal's death due to a stall led the Wright brothers to place the elevator in front, which helped prevent stalls but made stable flight difficult until the Wrights modified the design; the configuration was also adopted by other inventors.[90][BE]
Glider and helicopter edit
Having already accumulated technical knowledge, mainly concerning engines,[52]: 7 in early 1905, Santos-Dumont built a model glider, No. 11, inspired by a self-stabilising prototype made 100 years earlier by English scientist George Cayley, considered to be the first aeroplane in history: the model, 1.5 metres long by 1.2 metres wide, had fixed wings, a cruciform tail and a movable weight to adjust the centre of gravity. Santos-Dumont's glider differed from Cayley's in size, wing profile, and the fact that it had no movable weight.[91][92] The project was abandoned due to poor stability.[52]: 7 An article by Georges Blanchet published in April 1904 diverges from the description of the No. 11 as a model aeroplane by presenting it as a dirigible balloon capable of carrying five people and a 34-metre-long envelope, being purchased by an American.[82]: 91
The first experiment, conducted on 13 May at the Aeroclub de France, was made by the Dufaux brothers with a prototype helicopter. The model, weighing 17 kilograms and with a 3 hp engine, repeatedly soared to the roof of the air club's porch, raising clouds of dust. It had been demonstrated that heavier, larger aircraft could be lifted by their own means.[93] The second experiment was made on 8 June on the Seine: Gabriel Voisin went up in the hydroplane Archdeacon, towed by a speedboat piloted by Alphonse Tellier, La Rapière. The device barely rose out of the water and the project was abandoned due to poor stability.[14]: 277 Watching tests like this, Santos-Dumont realised that the Antoinette engine from the tugboat could be used in an aeroplane, giving the concept of the 14-bis.[44]: 366 [BF]
He began to study the two solutions for heavier-than-air flight. On 3 January 1906, he entered the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize, and before that he had begun building a helicopter, the No. 12, but gave up on it on 1 June because it was impossible to create a light, powerful engine.[14]: 277 Between June 12 and August 25, 1905, he tested the No. 14 airship, which flew in two versions (14-a and 14-b): the first was 41 metres long, 3.4 in diameter and 186 cubic metres, with a 14 hp engine, and the second was 20 metres long, 6 in diameter and with a 16 hp engine.[94]
Olympic diploma, 1905 edit
On 13 June 1905, represented by the Italian Count Eugenio Brunetta d'Usseaux, Baron Pierre de Coubertin awarded Santos-Dumont the Olympic Diploma No. 3[95] for "...representing the Olympic ideal..." according to Coubertin, who was also received by Theodore Roosevelt, Fridtjof Nansen and William-Hippolyte Grenfell.[33]: 15 De Coubertin considered aviation a sport; Santos-Dumont was described as a sportsman in FAI Bulletins and the Paris Sport of 15 July 1901 described the Brazilian as "a true sportsman in every sense of the word.[33]: 29 " Santos-Dumont was already famous at that time and already a hero in his country.[33]: 21 Santos' diploma was passed to the Brazilian ambassador in Belgium, who then passed it on to the aviator, according to the 21 June 1905 edition of the Correio Paulistano.[33]: 20 Santos-Dumont was not the only one represented by others at the ceremony[33]: 23 and only William Grenfell received the diploma personally.[96] The FAI was created on 14 October 1905, along the lines of the International Olympic Committee.[32]: 39
14-bis edit
He then built a hybrid machine, the 14-bis or Oiseau de Proie, consolidating his studies of what had been done in aviation until then,[54]: 7 [BG] even without having had experience with gliders,[42]: 70 finished after two months, in mid-1906,[19]: 13 an aeroplane attached to a hydrogen balloon to assist takeoff.[BH] For completing the 14-bis,[32]: 41 on 18 July Santos-Dumont signed up to compete in the events[99] and presented the exotic aircraft for the first time the next day,[25]: 18 [BI] attached to a balloon,[32]: 41 at Bagatelle, where he ran some races, obtaining appreciable jumps.[4][BJ] Excited, he decided to apply for the Archdeacon and Aeroclub of France awards the following day, his 33rd birthday, but was discouraged by Captain Ferdinand Ferber, another aviation enthusiast. Ferber had attended the demonstrations and did not like the solution presented by Santos-Dumont; he considered the hybrid an impure machine. "Aviation must be solved by aviation!" he declared.[100][101]
Oiseau de Proie I edit
Santos-Dumont decided not to compete for the prizes with the hybrid, but on 20 July signed up for the tests and over the next three days continued to test the plane tethered to the balloon, to practise steering. Throughout the tests he realised that, although the balloon helped take-off, it made flight difficult as the drag generated was too great.[14]: 279–280 The airship was discarded, and the biplane received the name Oiseau de Proie ("Bird of Prey") from the press.[14]: 279–280 The Oiseau de Proie had been inspired by the hydroplane tested by Voisin. Like the water glider, the invention also consisted of a cellular biplane based on the structure created in 1893 by Australian researcher Lawrence Hargrave, which offered good support and rigidity.[102] The plane was 4 metres high, 10 metres long, and had a span of 12 metres,[14]: 391 with a wing area of 50 square metres. Its mass was 205 kilograms. The wings were attached to a beam, in front of which lay the rudder, consisting of a cell identical to those of the wings. At the rear end was the propeller, powered by a 24 hp Levavasseur engine. The landing gear had two wheels, and the pilot stood upright.[14]: 279–280 The 23 September 1906 issue of Le Sport Universel Illustré published the technical details of the 14-bis.[33]: 36 [103]: 51
On 29 July, using a donkey and a system of cables, Santos-Dumont hoisted the Oiseau de Proie to the top of a tower[14]: 279–280 13 metres high (2 metres were stuck in the ground), installed a few days earlier on his property in Neuilly. This frame was very similar to the one Ferber had used at Chalais-Meudon for the May 1905 experiments with the 6-bis. The plane, suspended on a movable hook connected to an inclined steel wire, glided without a propeller 60 metres from the top of the tower to a smaller one, only six metres long, on the Boulevard de la Seine. This allowed Santos-Dumont to get a feel for the aeroplane and to study its centre of gravity.[104][54]: 8 In August the 14-bis was unsuccessful in trying to take off because the 24-hp engine was not powerful enough. On 13 September, the 14-bis made a 7 to 13-metre test flight with a 50 hp Antoinette engine,[25]: 18 [68]: 29 at 8:40 a.m,[32]: 41 which ended in an accident that damaged the propeller and landing gear,[42]: 74 but that was praised by La Nature magazine.[12]: 322 On 30 September he interrupted the tests of the 14-bis to compete in the Gordon Bennett Cup with the Deux Amériques balloon. He abandoned it after an accident, having flown 134 kilometres in 6 hours and 20 minutes.[12]: 323 The accident occurred while attempting a manoeuvre that caused the engine gear to fracture his arm.[105][106]
Oiseau de Proie II edit
On 23 October, Santos-Dumont presented himself at Bagatelle with the Oiseau de Proie II, a modification of the original model. The plane had been varnished to reduce the porosity of the fabric and increase lift. The rear wheel had been removed. In the morning he limited himself to manoeuvring the aircraft across the field, until the propeller shaft broke. It was repaired in the afternoon, and the plane was moved into position for an official attempt. An expectant crowd was present. At 4:45 pm, Santos-Dumont started the engine.[107] The plane lifted off and flew for 60 metres,[25]: 18 without taking advantage of headwinds, ramps, catapults, slopes, or other devices. The flight had taken place solely by the aircraft's own means, and Europeans at the time believed it was the first such achievement.[108]: 245
The crowd celebrated, ran up to the pilot and carried him off in triumph. The judges had been overcome with emotion and forgot to time and track the flight, and due to this the record was not made official.[71][109]: 53 Brandão 2018 says that because the Aeroclub Committee was partially present, a new test was scheduled for 12 November.[52]: 8
I struggled at first with the greatest difficulties to achieve complete obedience of the airplane. It was like shooting an arrow with the tail forward. On my first flight, after sixty meters, I lost direction and crashed... I didn't stay in the air any longer, not because of the machine's fault, but exclusively my own.
— Santos-Dumont.[25]: 18–19
Oiseau de Proie III edit
The aeroplane was still experimental. To compete for the French Aeroclub's prize, Santos-Dumont inserted two octagonal surfaces (rudimentary ailerons) between the wings for better steering control and created the Oiseau de Proie III.[110] Santos-Dumont was a pioneer in implementing ailerons in his aircraft.[44]: 367 [BK]
Santos-Dumont competed for the award on 12 November 1906,[14]: 284 again in Bagatelle. He did five[BL] public flights that day: one at 10 am, of 40 metres; two others at 10:25 am, of 40 and 60 metres, when the axle of the right wheel broke. The damage was repaired during lunch and Santos-Dumont resumed at 4:09 pm. He covered 82.60 metres, surpassing the feat of 23 October and reaching 41.3 km/h.[19]: 14 At 4:45 pm, with the day ending, he took off against the wind and flew 220 metres, for 21 seconds at an average speed of 37.4 km/h,[19]: 14 winning the French Aeroclub Award.[BM] These were the first aeroplane flights recorded by a film company, Pathé.[111] The Wright Brothers, after learning of the 12 November experiment, sent a letter to Captain Ferdinand Ferber asking for "exact news of the Bagatelle experiments," including "a faithful report of the trials and a description of the flying machine, accompanied by a schematic."[103]: 52–53 [BN] Santos-Dumont even adopted the configuration proposed by the Wright brothers and placed the rudder at the front of the 14-bis, which he described as "the same as trying to shoot an arrow forward with the tail...". To test the idea that the rudder at the rear increased the angle of incidence of the wings, Santos-Dumont built a new aircraft, without abandoning the 14-bis,[12]: 324 and tested it in March 1907, without taking off[12]: 325 as the primitive landing gear did not allow it.[32]: 43
Oiseau de Proie IV edit
He returned to the 14-bis having made other changes to the aircraft after 12 November, and on 4 April 1907, at Saint-Cyr, the aircraft flew for 50 metres, oscillated, crashed, and was torn to pieces. The project was abandoned.[112]
New aeroplanes edit
He also made the No. 15, a biplane with a rear-mounted rudder, as opposed to the canard format,[43]: 227 the No. 16, a mix of airship and aeroplane,[BO] No. 17 and No. 18, a waterslide[14]: 391 [BP] used to test the wing shape underwater.[12]: 326
Dissatisfied with numbers 15 to 18, he made a new series, smaller in size and more refined, like the Demoiselle, that was capable of reaching up to 90 kilometres per hour.[31][52]: 9 [BQ] It was first tested in November 1907, returning on an abandoned idea from 1905, but soon realised that it "... had serious structural problems" according to Henrique Lins de Barros.[32]: 43 However, on November 17, 1907, he competed for the Deutsch-Archdeacon award, crossing 200 meters at a height of 6 meters, but abandoning before the required 1000 meters due to a breakdown in the aircraft.[42]: 82
In 1909 he presented the Demoiselle No. 20, improved and considered "the first ultralight in history".[32]: 44 [BR] This aeroplane was designed for sports competitions and 300 were built in several European countries and in the United States.[33]: 98 His schemes were published in the June–July 1910 issues of Popular Mechanics.[54]: 10 This plane consolidated Santos-Dumont's role in the birth of aviation in the 20th century.[33]: 82 [BS] The Demoiselle also featured an engine of original invention by Santos-Dumont[BT] and model No. 20, capable of flights of up to 2 kilometres and reaching 96 km/h,[BU] Because of the aircraft's low cost and high safety, it was used for pilot training during World War I.[42]: 83
The aircraft is on permanent display at the Musée de l'air et de l'espace near Paris.[25]: 19 In 1908, when the Wright brothers went public, and—according to Mattos—used European technology[44]: 376 [BV] and his colleagues were already being rewarded, he already seemed to have moved away from the events.[12]: 326
Last years edit
Santos-Dumont began to show symtoms of multiple sclerosis.[115] He aged in appearance and felt too tired to continue competing with new inventors in races. On 22 August 1909 he attended the Great Aviation Week in Reims, where he made his last flights.[12]: 328 After an accident with the Demoiselle on 4 January 1910,[116][25]: 19 he closed down his workshop and withdrew from social life.[14]: 301–302 [BW] He continued to work on popularising aviation.[117] On 12 November 1910 a monument was unveiled in Bagatelle, and on 4 October 1913, the Icarus monument was unveiled, celebrating his winning the Deutsch Prize,[25]: 19 made by sculptor Georges Colin.[109]: 54 On the same day he was promoted to Commander of the Legion of Honour[12]: 329 and soon after these events he returned to Brazil after a 10-year absence, returning to France the following year.[109]: 54 He ordered a new Demoiselle in 1913, but there is no evidence that he ever flew it.[80][118]
In August 1914, World War I began, and Santos-Dumont offered his services to the French Ministry of War.[25]: 19 He went on to enlist as a chauffeur.[109]: 54 Aeroplanes began to be used in warfare, first for observation of enemy troops, and then in aerial combat. The combats became more violent, with the use of machine guns and bombs. Santos-Dumont saw his dream turn into a nightmare.[119][32]: 44 [119]
Santos-Dumont now devoted himself to the study of astronomy, residing in Trouville, near the sea. For this he used several observation devices, with which his neighbours thought he was spying for the Germans. He was arrested on this charge. After the incident was cleared up, the French government apologised.[119] This made him feel depressed, considering that he had offered his help to the military,[25]: 20 and he destroyed all his aeronautical documents.[120]
In 1915, his health worsened and he decided to return to Brazil. That year, he took part in the 11th Pan-American Scientific Congress in the United States, dealing with the theme of the use of aeroplanes to improve relationships between the countries of the Americas.[121][25]: 20 [BX] In his speech he showed concern about the efficiency of the aeroplane as a weapon of war, but advocated the creation of a squadron for coastal defence with the words, "Who knows when a European power will threaten an American state?"[12]: 330 Because of its pacifism, this position can be viewed in a surprising way.[123] In the afterword to the historical novel O Homem com Asas ("De gevleugelde"), Arthur Japin says that when Santos-Dumont returned to Brazil, he "burned all his diaries, letters and drawings."[124] In 1916, he was the Honorary President of the 1st Pan-American Aronautics Conference in Chile, which aimed to create an Aeronautical Federation with all the Americas, where, while representing the Aeroclub of America, he advocated the peaceful use of the aeroplane. When he returned to Brazil, passing through Paraná, he suggested the creation of the Iguaçu National Park.[125]}
In the book O Que Eu Vi, O Que Nós Veremos, Santos-Dumont transcribed his letters of 1917 to the President of the Republic of Brazil, stressing the need to build military airfields for the Army and the Navy. He also pointed out that Brazil was falling behind Europe, the United States and even Argentina and Chile.[41]: 88–91 The book also argues for the need to train people in aeronautics, and to make the country technologically independent.[52]: 9
In 1918 Santos-Dumont bought a small plot of land on the side of a hill in Petrópolis in the Serra Fluminense mountains, and built a small house there filled with mechanical devices, including an alcohol-heated shower of his own design. The hill was chosen because of its steep slope, as proof that ingenuity could make it possible to build a comfortable home in that unlikely location. After he built it in land given by the government, he spent summers there to escape the heat of Rio de Janeiro, calling it "The Enchanted" because of the Rua do Encanto. The steps of the outside stairs are dug alternately to the right and left, to allow people to climb up comfortably. The house is now a museum.[126] In 1918 he wrote his second work, O que eu vi, o que nós veremos in this house.[127] In 1919 he got the United States Minister in Brazil to contact the Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a way to "lobby" for more aeronautical cooperation between Brazil and the USA.[70]: 270
In 1920, Santos-Dumont had a tomb erected for his parents and himself in the São João Batista Cemetery in Rio de Janeiro. The tomb is a replica of Saint-Cloud's Icarus.[14]: 334 Also in 1920, he began an international campaign against the warlike use of aircraft, but without success.[33]: 44
In 1922, he decorated Anésia Pinheiro Machado, who, during the commemorations of the centenary of Brazil's independence, made the trip from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo in an aeroplane.[128] On 14 May he made his last balloon ascent.[25]: 20 Also in 1922 he visited friends in France. He spent time in Paris, Petrópolis and Cabangu Farm, in his home town.[119]
On 23 April 1923 he went to Portugal to collect his mother's remains.[25]: 20 On 7 June he was awarded the Comendador of Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, in Portugal.[129] On 21 August, he started the construction of his parents' tomb, where a replica of the Icarus of Saint Cloud offered by the French Government was placed, and he carried out the transfer of his parents' remains on 23 October.[25]: 20 Beside his parents' graves, Santos-Dumont personally dug his own.[130]
On 6 November 1924, he was elected Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold II.[25]: 20 On 25 January 1925, Santos tried to improve his health with thermal waters containing radium, but was unsuccessful. In March, in a letter, Santos-Dumont described himself as being "extremely thin, like a skeleton." In a letter dated 29 April he complained of noises in his ear.[131] In July, he was hospitalised in Switzerland.[25]: 20
In January 1926, he appealed to the League of Nations, through his friend and ambassador Afrânio de Melo Franco, to stop the use of aeroplanes as weapons of war.[132] He offered ten thousand francs to whoever wrote the best piece against the military use of aeroplanes.[77] Santos-Dumont was the first aeronaut to speak out against the warlike use of the aeroplane.[14]: 15 In the same year he wrote to Senator Paulo de Frontin refusing a third-party proposal to make him a general.[70]: 270
In May 1927, he was invited by the Aeroclub of France to preside over the banquet in honour of Charles Lindberg for his crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, but he declined due to his health. He spent some time convalescing in Glion, Switzerland, and then returned to France.[4] Researcher Henrique Lins de Barros describes that "around 1925, he gradually enters a state of almost permanent depression."[12]: 333
On 3 December 1928 he returned to Brazil on the ship Capitão Arcona.[133] The city of Rio de Janeiro received him with honour. A seaplane carrying several professors from the Escola Politécnica, from the Condor Syndikat company, baptised with his name, crashed, with no survivors, while flying over Santos-Dumont's ship.[77][12]: 334 After this event, he locked himself in the Copacabana Palace and only came out to attend the funerals.[134] On 10 June 1930, he was decorated by the Aeroclub of France with the title of Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour.[77][33]: 71 His speech was recorded on a sound film.[12]: 334
Death edit
On 28 October 1930, Santos-Dumont was hospitalised in France, and on 14 April 1931 he wrote his first will.[25]: 20 In 1931, he was treated in sanatoriums in Biarritz, and Orthez, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, where he attempted suicide by overdosing on medication.[134] Prado Júnior, former mayor of Rio de Janeiro (then the capital of Brazil), had been exiled by the 1930 revolution and had gone to France. He found Santos-Dumont in a delicate state of health due to his worsening multiple sclerosis. Juniór contacted Santos-Dumont's family and asked the aeronaut's nephew Jorge Dumont Vilares to fetch his uncle from France. On 3 June 1931, while returning to Brazil aboard the steamer Lutetia, Santos-Dumont tried to kill himself again, but his nephew prevented Santos-Dumont's death.[115][134] He would never return to France.[109]: 55 On 4 June 1931, he was elected a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters,[25]: 20 even though he had no desire to be elected.[109]: 55 Back in Brazil, they passed through Araxá, in Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and finally settled in Grand Hôtel La Plage, in Guarujá, in May 1932.[136]
In July 1932, the state of São Paulo rose up in the Constitutionalist revolution against the revolutionary government of Getúlio Vargas. On the 14th, Santos-Dumont wrote a letter in favour of "...constitutional order in the country..."[33]: 81 [137] to Governor Pedro de Toledo.[12]: 335 When talking to professor and friend José de Oliveira Orlandi by phone, Santos-Dumont said: "My God! My God! Is there no way to avoid the bloodshed of brothers? Why did I make this invention which, instead of contributing to the love between men, turns into a cursed weapon of war? I am horrified by these airplanes that are constantly passing over Santos".[12]: 335
The conflict continued, and aeroplanes attacked the Campo de Marte in São Paulo on 23 July.[12]: 335 They may have flown over Guarujá, and the sight of planes in combat may have caused deep anguish in Santos-Dumont who, in his nephew's absence, died by suicide at the age of 59. Decree No. 21,668 established three days of mourning.[25]: 20 [138] Coroners Roberto Catunda and Angelo Esmolari, who signed his death certificate, recorded the death as a heart attack.[BY] The chambermaids who found the body reported that he had hanged himself with his tie.[136] According to Henrique Lins de Barros, for a long time it was forbidden to say that he had killed himself[140] and that the idea that he committed suicide due to the military use of the aeroplane would be a legend of the getulista period, as the government sought to mythologise him; the suicide could weaken this. The real cause may have been depression and bipolar disorder.[141] The order of the governor Pedro de Toledo, following Santos-Dumont's death, was: "There will be no investigation, Santos Dumont did not commit suicide".[12]: 336 [BZ] Journalist Edmar Morel publicised the cause of death as suicide in 1944.[118][CA]
Santos-Dumont left no suicide note and had no descendants. His body was buried in São João Batista Cemetery, in Rio de Janeiro, on 21 December 1932, during a storm,[25]: 20 [109]: 56 under the replica of the Icarus de Saint Cloud he had built,[12]: 336 after his remains had remained in the São Paulo capital for five months.[109]: 56 Physician Walther Haberfield secretly removed his heart during the embalming process[12]: 336 and preserved it in formaldehyde.[142] After keeping this a secret for twelve years, he wanted to return it to the Santos-Dumont family, who refused it. The doctor then donated the heart to the Brazilian government after a request from Panair do Brasil. The heart is on display at the Air Force Museum in Campo dos Afonsos, Rio de Janeiro,[130][143]: 46 inside a sphere carried by Icarus, designed by Paulo da Rocha Gomide.[143]: 49
Legacy and tributes edit
Several legends were told about our Brazilian friend. They said he had an immense fortune! Well, this fortune was only a remediated situation. But how to explain the gesture of this man who distributed prizes awarded for performances to charitable institutions? In the eyes of the public, these liberalities could only be based on a fabulous fortune. Not at all: Santos Dumont was generosity itself, innate elegance, kindness and righteousness. He gave without counting and without foresight, moved by an irresistible virtue... He left as a legacy nothing but his name engraved in our hearts. Those who knew him could not help but love him.
On 25 July 1909, Louis Blériot crossed the English Channel, becoming a hero in France. In a letter, Santos-Dumont congratulated Blériot, his friend, with the following words: "This transformation of geography is a victory of air navigation over sea navigation. One day, perhaps, thanks to you, the airplane will cross the Atlantic".[CB] Blériot then replied, "I have done nothing but follow and imitate you. Your name to the aviators is a flag. You are our leader."[145] Blériot's last project was named Santos-Dumont.[32]: 45 Dias 2005 says that the inventor's influence was both in his aeronautical development and in advocating the public and personal use of aeronautics, whether through lighter or heavier-than-air.[68]: 32
During his career, Santos-Dumont's image was printed on products, his Panama hat and collar were copied, his balloons were modelled as toys, and confectioners made cakes shaped like airships.[14]: 15 [70]: 254 The European and American media reappropriated him as a French, presenting him as a "French aeronaut" or emphasizing his French ancestry, while the Brazilian media emphasized his Brazilian roots and nationality.[70]: 259–260
The Aéro-Club de France honoured him with two monuments: the first, in 1910, erected on the Bagatelle Gamefield, where he had flown with the Oiseau de Proie, and the second, in 1913, in Saint-Cloud, to commemorate the flight of airship No. 6 in 1901.[146] On the unveiling of the Saint-Cloud monument - a statue of Icarus[14]: 301–302 - one of his long-time friends, the cartoonist Georges Goursat (aka "Sem"), wrote the following for the magazine L'Illustration:
This superb genius of athletic forms, with a grave profile, holding open in the tethers of his arms his wings, rudely wielded like two shields, nobly symbolizes the great work of Santos-Dumont: he would evoke in a very inaccurate way the simple, agile, laughing little big man that he is in reality. Dressed in a jacket and very short pants that are always rolled up, covered with a soft hat whose brim is on the other hand always folded back, there is nothing monumental about him. What distinguishes him is his taste for simplification, for geometric shapes, and everything in his appearance denotes this character. He has a passion for precision instruments. Small precision machines are installed on his work table, true jewels of mechanics, which are of no use to him and are only there for the pleasure of having them as knickknacks. There, next to a barometer and a microscope of the latest model, you can see a marine chronometer in its mahogany case. Even on the terrace of his villa stands a splendid telescope, with which he indulges in the fantasy of inspecting the sky. He has a horror of all complication, all ceremony, all pomp. So, what a rude and delicious ordeal for his modesty, this inauguration! I have known him for thirteen years; it was the first time I saw him in top hat and overcoat. And even for this single circumstance – supreme concession to custom – his properly stretched pants covered his astonished boots. Standing at the foot of his own monument, dressed as an official hero, transfixed with embarrassment and clumsiness, he seemed to me like a kind of martyr to glory.[147]
On 31 July 1932 state decree No. 10,447 changed the name of the town of Palmira, in Minas Gerais, to Santos-Dumont.[148][122]: 120 Law No. 218, of 4 July 1936, declared 23 October to be "aviator's day," celebrating the historic flight on this date in 1906, "so that this commemoration will always have a worthy civic, sporting, and cultural celebration, especially in schools, emphasizing the initiative of the remarkable Brazilian Santos-Dumont".[149][33]: 46 On 16 October 1936 Rio de Janeiro's first airport was named after him.[150][122]: 121
Law No. 165, dated 5 December 1947, granted him the honorary rank of lieutenant brigadier.[151] Santos-Dumont's birthplace in Cabangu, Minas Gerais, was made into the Cabangu Museum by state decree (MG) No. 5,057, on 18 July 1956.[152] Law No. 3636, of 22 September 1959, made him an honorary air marshal.[153][122]: 121
In 1976, the International Astronomical Union gave Santos-Dumont's name to a lunar crater (27.7°N 4.8°E). He is the only South American to be so honoured.[154][33]: 46 [122]: 122 Law 7.243, of 4 November 1984, granted him the title of "Patron of the Brazilian Aeronautics".[155][122]: 123 On 13 October 1997, the then President of the United States, Bill Clinton, visiting Brazil, gave a speech at the Itamaraty Palace, referring to Santos-Dumont as the "father of aviation".[156]
On 18 October 2005, the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) signed an agreement to carry out the Missão Centenário, which took Brazilian astronaut Marcos César Pontes to the International Space Station. The mission is a tribute to the centennial of Santos-Dumont's flight on the 14-bis, on 23 October 1906. The Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft launched on 30 March 2006, from the Baikonur Launch Centre (Kazakhstan).[157][158] On 26 July 2006 his name was included in the Steel Book of National Heroes in the Panteão da Pátria, in Brasília, granting him the status of National Hero.[159]
Cultural representations edit
In 1902 the poet Eduardo das Neves composed the song "A Conquista do Ar" in honour of Santos-Dumont's achievements,[160][50]: 54 described by Thomas Skidmore as 'a conspicuous example of "ufanism" during the [Brazilian] belle époque', while for Oliveira 2022 the song was "...an effort to insert Afro-Brazilians into cosmopolitan visions of flight."[70]: 262–263 In 1924 Tarsila do Amaral painted "Carnaval em Madureira",[70]: 264 onde representava a réplica torre com o dirigível construída em Madureira para o carnaval daquele ano, e a presença de afro-brasileiros durante a festa.[70]: 267–268 During the 2004 carnival, the Unidos da Tijuca remembered the aviator, with several scientists - among them Nobel Prize winner Roald Hoffmann - dressed as Santos Dumont.[70]: 273–274
In 1956, the Brazilian Post Office released a series of stamps commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the first flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft.[161] In 1973, they released a series of stamps to celebrate Santos-Dumont's centenary.[162] On 23 October 2006, they launched a commemorative stamp for the centenary of the flight of the 14-bis.[163] In the same month, the Brazilian Central Bank issued a coin commemorating Santos-Dumont's invention.[164] He was depicted on the cruzeiro and cruzeiro novo banknotes.[165]
In 2012, Cartier produced a series of watches named after Santos-Dumont, celebrating the partnership between him and the brand; as a publicity piece, an award-winning film was made by France's Quad Productions entitled "L'Odyssée de Cartier".[166][167]
In 2015, author Arthur Japin published the historical novel De gevleugelde (O Homem com Asas, in Brazil), about the aviator's life and death, and the extraction of his heart.[168][169]
During the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games at the Maracanã Stadium, a replica of Santos-Dumont's 14-bis, was built in the stadium and, with the help of steel cables, flew over the runway, "taking off" for a flight over the city of Rio de Janeiro.[170]
Santos-Dumont has been portrayed as a character in film, television, and theatre, played by Denis Manuel in Marcel Camus' Les Faucheurs de marguerites (1974);[171] by Cássio Scapin in the miniseries Um Só Coração (2004);[172] by Daniel de Oliveira in the short film 14-bis (2006);[173] by Ricardo Napoleão in Denise Stoklos' play "Mais Pesado que o Ar – Santos Dumont" (1996);[174] and by Henri Lalli in the play Santos-Dumont (since 2003).[175] Fernanda Montenegro played a transsexual descendant of Santos-Dumont in the soap opera Zazá (1997).[176] TV Brasil produced the programme O Teco Teco, with a character named Betinho, depicting Santos-Dumont as a child.[177]
On 10 November 2019, HBO released the miniseries Santos-Dumont across Latin America. The production follows the aviator's steps from childhood in his family's coffee fields Minas Gerais and São Paulo (where the family settled), to the sophisticated salons and aeroclubs in Paris, where Santos-Dumont made his historic flight in the 14-bis in 1906. Actor João Pedro Zappa played the inventor.[178]
Personal life edit
Sexuality edit
Santos-Dumont never married and was rather shy, and his sexuality has long been debated, including by his biographers.[179]
Researcher Henrique Lins de Barros, from the Brazilian Center for Physics Research, rejects the thesis that the Brazilian inventor was homosexual, arguing that he was just a man concerned with his appearance.[180] According to Barros, "The French refinement sounded like homosexual affectation to American journalists, who described him as effeminate. (...) Hoffman did not understand the customs and values of the time and saw everything with the distorted view that was held at that time in the United States."[181] Also, in his article "Alberto Santos-Dumont: Pioneiro da Aviação," Barros notes that Santos-Dumont had a media-heralded engagement to Edna Powers,[32]: 39 daughter of an American millionaire.[CC] Cosme Degenar Drumond, writer of "Alberto Santos-Dumont: Novas Revelações," says that in France Santos-Dumont has "a reputation as a conqueror".[182] Santos-Dumont was listed in the list of the "100 VIP homosexuals of Brazil," formulated by anthropologist Luiz Mott, rekindling the discussion about Santos-Dumont's sexuality. Santos-Dumont's family has denied that he was homosexual.[183] Santos-Dumont allegedly had a homo-affective affair with Georges Goursat in 1901.[184]
Yolanda Penteado, in her autobiography Tudo em cor de rosa, says: "(...) I met Alberto Santos-Dumont, a brother of my uncle Henrique. Seu Alberto, as we called him, came every day for dinner and stayed over, saying it was to see the moon come out. In Flamengo the full moon nights were really beautiful. He was a restless person. I thought it was funny that he gave me so much attention. And Aunt Amalia would say: "Alberto, you are getting dizzy dating this girl". Alberto, in fact, used to court me, bring me chocolates, flowers, take me for walks. The people who knew him best said that when he saw me he became electric".[181]
In a 1901 letter a friend, Santos Dumont wrote that he was in love with an American woman: "[M]y heart is already very much with her ... and I don't know what to do, whether to stop the courtship or to continue."[185]
Mental health edit
Santos Dumont is traditionally described as having developed multiple sclerosis. However, this diagnosis is disputed by other researchers:
Henrique Lins de Barros questions this diagnosis: "I think it difficult to believe in this hypothesis of multiple sclerosis... How could anyone suffering from a degenerative disease like multiple sclerosis ski in Saint Moritz in the 1910s and play tennis in the 1920s, as he did?" Marcos Villares Filho, great-grandnephew of Santos-Dumont, says that he probably had a profound depression.[118] The documentation of the time does not provide a good deal of information to determine that Santos Dumont suffered from multiple sclerosis.[186]: 208
The original diagnosis came after consulting a doctor due to symptoms such as dizziness and double vision. Later, this diagnosis was challenged by other doctors, who believed that the aviator was already suffering from psychiatric manifestations.[134] The symptoms reported for the original diagnosis would be only two related to multiple sclerosis.[187]: 67
Cheniaux 2022 reports several episodes showing bursts of energy when at times outside his depressive episodes.[123] Santos Dumont reportedly developed depression in 1910, predating the use of the aeroplane in the war, which, according to the cited article, would indicate that his feeling of guilt was a symptom rather than the cause.[187]: 67 Cheniaux hypothesizes that Santos Dumont suffered from bipolar disorder or manic syndrome, with his latest bizarre inventions being able to demonstrate the "loss of critical ability".[187]: 67 A letter written in 1931 by a doctor at the Orthez sanatorium to a friend of Santos Dumont describes him as 'suffering from anxious melancholy with delusions of self-blame, from imaginary guilt, and awaiting punishment', also identified as neurasthenia, an exhaustion of the central nervous system.[70]: 271
Bipolar disorder is one of the disorders most connected with suicide and Santos Dumont already had precedents in his family, with his mother having taken her own life[187]: 67 in 1902[187]: 66 and that the aviator already demonstrated at the end of his life a number of epidemiological risk factors for suicide.[186]: 208 It is hard to determine any diagnosis due to the lack of medical documentation.[188]
Works edit
- Books
- Dans l'air (in French). Charpentier et Fasquelle. 1904. p. 370.
- O que eu vi, o que nós veremos (in Portuguese). São Paulo. 1918. p. 101. OL 32235835M.
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- Articles
- "Une Ascension au Jardin D'Acclimatation". L'Aéronautique (in French). Paris: 103–105. 1898.
- "Travel by Balloon". Baltimore American. CXCII (34925): 1. 5 January 1902.
- Dumont, A. Santos (June 1902). "Air-Ships and Flying-Machines" (PDF). The North American Review. 174 (547): 721–729. JSTOR 25119252.
- "How I Became an Aëronaut and My Experience with Air-Ships". McClure's Magazine. 19 (4): 307–316. August 1902.
- "How I Became an Aëronaut and My Experience with Air-Ships". McClure's Magazine. 19 (5): 454–464. September 1902.
- "The Sensations and Emotions of Aerial Navigation". The Pall Mall Magazine. 32 (129): 11–22. January 1904.
- "Ce que je ferai, Ce que l'on fera". Je Sais Tout (in French). Paris (1): 105–114. 1905.
- "The Future of Air-ships". The Fortnightly Review (459): 442–454. 1 March 1905.
- "The Pleasures of Ballooning". The Independent. 58 (2948): 1225–1232. 1 June 1905.
- Translations of his works
- My Airships. London, G. Richards. 1904. p. 352. OL 6871807W.
- Im Reich der Lüfte (in German). Translated by Ludwig Holthol. Stuttgart und Leipzig, Deutsche verlags-anstalt. 1905. p. 194. LCCN 31022969.
- I. R. Belopolsky, ed. (1911). "Как я выиграл приз Дейча де-Ламетра". Въ мірѣ новыхъ ощущеній. pp. 31–46.
- "Os Meus Balões" (1938). Translated to Portuguese by Arthur de Miranda Bastos.[189]
- Os Meus Balões (PDF). Translated by A. de Miranda Bastos. Brasília: Fundação Rondon. 1986. p. 244. ISBN 85-278-0002-0. (PDF) from the original on 2007-11-18.
- Miaj Balonoj/ Kion Mi Vidis, Kion Ni Vidos (in Esperanto). Translated by Luiz Fernando Dias Pita (1 ed.). Clube de Autores. 2020. ISBN 978-65-86182-06-4.
- Ce que j'ai vu, ce que nous verrons (in French). Translated by Benjamin Voisin. 2022. p. 75. ISBN 979-8-4230-8665-7.
- "O Homem Mecânico": published in Portuguese in the work "Os Balões de Santos-Dumont", 2010.[190]
- Non published
See also edit
References edit
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cette prouesse est le premier vol au monde homologué par l'Aéro-Club de France et la toute jeune Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI)
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A century later, historians consider this flight, which was duly recorded by official observers from the Aéro-Club de France, to be the first aviation sporting performance homologated by the FAI.
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Annuncia Santos Dumont que simultaneamente com seu helicoptero, está construindo um aeroplano afim de verificar qual dos dous systemas é o melhor.
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Notes edit
- ^ Later the name changed to Palmyra and then Santos Dumont in July 1932, by initiative of Oswaldo Henrique Castello Branco[13] and later, to Santos-Dumont[14]: 340
- ^ O Cruzeiro, 25 de setembro de 1974 says that the family left Cabangu when Santos Dumont was 1 year old and from there they went to Casal, near Valença (Rio de Janeiro), where Henrique Dumont would manage the farm of his father-in-law, Francisco de Paula Santos. After friction between Henrique and Francisco, the family moved to the neighborhood of São Francisco Xavier.[15]: 63
- ^ It was later called Dumont Farm and was bought by an English syndicate.[20]: 13 When they bought the farm, the family had 300 million réis and 80 slaves.[15]: 63
- ^ With 60[21] to 96 kilometres of track and seven locomotives.[14]: 18 A 1901 article in Le Pettit Journal indicated that the farm had four million coffee trees, six thousand workers, and four kilometres of railroad.[22]
- ^ Medeiros 2006, says that Santos-Dumont only studied at this school between the ages of 10 and 11 (1883–1884).[23]: 30 Jorge 2018 says it was between the ages of 7 and 8.[24]: 35
- ^ The first college had strict discipline,[23]: 30 while the others allowed a "more individualized teaching", but all were focused on the Brazilian elite.[23]: 31
- ^ Jorge 2018, p. 38 says that it happened in April 1890.
- ^ For the complete quote of what Henrique Dumont said, read What I Saw, What We Will See, pages 12–13.[41]: 12–13
- ^ Little is known about Santos-Dumont's education other than an unpublished manuscript showing that he studied the encyclopedias of Fonvielle and Flammarion, knew the history of flight, and knew some mathematics.[43]: 224–225 Santos-Dumont and other inventors studied the works of Lilienthal and Cayley.[44]: 365 He relied on self-education, with Garcia guiding him in his studies. Peter Wykeham describes Garcia as an advisor in his studies.[39]: 34
- ^ Medeiros 2006a says that it happened in 1893, when Santos-Dumont was 21 years old.[39]: 33 He was the only one among his siblings not to complete a college degree.[46]
- ^ Between 1892 and 1897 he attended engineering courses at the Sorbonne and the College de France, without any official commitment.[23]: 33
- ^ Exacta 2006: in an interview with Henrique Lins de Barros it is explained how Santos-Dumont's practical ability, as "a scientist who was in the proving ground," makes him a practical scientist, also because of the speed at which he advanced his creations in a decade, but it is an idea that has been fading as the importance of theoretical science has increased.[43]: 224 Mattos 2012, says he was not a scientist, but an "integrator of technologies."[44]: 366
- ^ Of 800 million réis[43]: 226 or the equivalent of half a million dollars.[48]
- ^ Santos-Dumont did not invest in aviation commercially, but recognised its economic and military potential.[44]: 378
- ^ Due to his success he received investment proposals from London and New York, but never accepted them.[49] Santos Dumont also received income from his family.[50]: 54
- ^ According to the book What I Saw, What We Will See, he considered taking his first balloon flight shortly after going to study in France, but the price of 1000 French francs and being liable for any damage discouraged him,[41]: 14 showing that the balloonists of the time exaggerated the risks of flight in order to make more profit.[15]: 67 The firm Lachambre & Machuron did not make these demands.[41]: 15–16
- ^ The book What I Saw, What We Will See says it was 250 francs.[41]: 15–16
- ^ Japanese silk, instead of the usual Chinese.[44]: 362
- ^ In Brazil he experimented with Japanese silk, creating a lighter balloon than the established materials of taffeta or varnished paper.[43]: 225–226 Before flying "Brazil", Lachambre's team let him do ascents in France and Belgium as a way to gain experience.[34]: 52
- ^ According to Jorge 2018, p. 81, despite having the most powerful vehicle in the race, Santos Dumont abandoned it for fear of damaging his new engine and soon after this, he started the project of the No. 1.
In 1899 he took part in the Nice-Castellane-Nice race.[20]: 22 In this early period, Santos Dumont also rented the velodrome Parc aux Princes to hold the first tricycle race in France.[15]: 66 [42]: 31 - ^ In the United States Samuel Langley received $50,000 from the War Department and $20,000 from the Smithsonian Institution for the development of the Aerodrome,[44]: 356 launched by a catapult[44]: 373 and abandoned after two takeoff accidents on 7 October and 8 December 1903.[44]: 357 His biggest development was a 50 hp engine, which did not influence the US aviation industry due to the atmosphere of secrecy aviation had there.[44]: 373
- ^ A 1902 Argentinean article commented on the similarities between Giffard and Santos-Dumont.[20]: 78
- ^ According to Henrique Lins de Barros, they were left to the mercy of the wind.[43]: 229 The engine of Renard's balloon in 1890 reached 55 revolutions per minute; Santos-Dumont's Deutsch Prize flight reached 200.[20]: 13 After Santos-Dumont won the Deutsch Prize, Renard's colleagues claimed that he had merely replicated Renard's secret work.[20]: 14
- ^ From the 18th century it had been proposed to use sails, steam engines, human propulsion and electric motors, without success. David Schwarz developed an airship with metal cladding and a combustion engine, but died without testing it.[54]: 1
- ^ Henrique Lins de Barros, in an article from 2021, says that this engine was patented by the inventor.[54]: 2 The "Correio Paulistano" says that the engine was refused by the Paris Aeroclub because of the inventor's nationality.[53]
- ^ He used a simple numbering system in his inventions, but made several modifications without changing the numbering. For example, "...the N. 16 appears sometimes with an engine turning one propeller, sometimes with two engines mounted on a new structure, connected to two propellers."[59]: 25
- ^ Barros 2003 says that the first attempt took place in September 1893, but that due to bad positioning the airship was launched against the treetops.[12]: 311
- ^ Mattos 2012, says that this airship used the design of Albert and Gaston Tissandier.[44]: 356 The reuse of earlier concepts was something done by Santos-Dumont and other inventors in France.[44]: 355 The FlightGlobal (1909a) stated: "The Voisin brothers and their engineer and works manager M. Colliex make no secret of the fact that they have based their work on that of pioneers such as Lilienthal, Langley, and others, and in fact they say they never miss an opportunity of utilizing any information or data on which that can lay hands."[44]: 368 The inventors shared some data but acted independently of each other.[44]: 378
- ^ The No. 3 was the first aircraft in aviation history to be successfully propelled by a combustion engine.[44]: 362
- ^ It is considered to be the world's first hangar, as well as heralding the invention of sliding doors.[63][64]
- ^ For the full text in Portuguese, read CENDOC, Rio de Janeiro 2021, p. 24
- ^ For an in-depth look at the characteristics of the No. 4, read CENDOC, Rio de Janeiro 2021, p. 24
- ^ Before No. 5 he flew in Le Fatum, a balloon built by Santos-Dumont and Emmanuel Aimé to conduct experiments in aerostatic equilibrium[66] with Emmanuel Aimé's Thermosphére equipment. It was an elongated aircraft 7 metres high and 310 cubic metres.[67]
- ^ The triangular section keel, which provided greater rigidity for less weight and was used in other airships by other inventors, was his main innovation.[68]: 27
- ^ A prize of the same name was mentioned in the September 1906 issue of L'Aérophile, where Santos-Dumont offered 4,000 francs to the aeronaut who stayed in the air for 48 hours without stopping.[69]: 185
- ^ Barros 2021 says that on this day he had an accident, falling "...over the tallest chestnut tree in Mr Edmond de Rothschild's park".[54]: 4
- ^ After the accident Deutsch de la Meurthe considered changing the route of the award to avoid flights over the city, but was prevented by the opinion of other aeronauts.[70]: 250
- ^ For more about No. 6, see CENDOC, Rio de Janeiro 2021, pp. 56–57, O Santos-Dumont VI explicado por um especialista
- ^ Dumont faced southeast winds that reached 21 km/h at the height of the Eiffel Tower. He reached the tower in 9 minutes travelling at a speed of 36 km/h, passing 10 metres above the top of the monument and 50 metres from the lightning rods, saying: "I have always feared, as the gravest of all dangers, going around the Eiffel tower". On going around he had to abandon the controls due to engine problems and returned with the engine failing and losing altitude.[54]: 5
- ^ This addition to the regulations was only made later, when Santos-Dumont was preparing for his new attempt, which led him to take a stand against the decision and announce that he would donate his prize money.[51]: 244
- ^ 75,000 francs were donated to the poor through the city hall and the rest was distributed among his staff.[54]: 5
- ^ Following his success with No. 5, the European media were mistaken about his nationality.[51]: 243 See example (USA) at [75] A Spanish newspaper claimed he was a naturalised Frenchman.[20]: 72
- ^ According to John M. Overstreet, this money would have been reinvested by Santos Dumont to recover the cost of producing the Nº6.[76]: 27
- ^ For Edison it would be impossible to patent the aeroplane due to the research and development already done; therefore, he did not work on it beyond a small engine powered by gunpowder.[44]: 364
- ^ At another point in the trip, he showed himself willing to accept partnerships and sponsors.[51]: 246
- ^ For more about the flights in Monaco, see The Over-Sea Experiments of Santos-Dumont.
- ^ Despite their weight, they were opened by Princes Constantinesco and Marescotti Ruspoli, aged eight and ten.[20]: 21
- ^ It was taken to England for an exhibition and possible flights.[51]: 246–247
- ^ For more about No. 7, see CENDOC, Rio de Janeiro 2021, p. 76, O "Santos-Dumont VII"
- ^ Santos-Dumont represented France at the event.[51]: 251
- ^ Santos-Dumont had left the crate with the balloon open after applying a varnish. Carl Meyes, saying that the cuts were made by "a large cordless penknife with the sole perverse purpose of destroying the balloon", offered to fix it. The investigation report partially blamed Santos-Dumont, who would have been told to close the crate, as well as suggesting that an assistant or Santos-Dumont himself could have destroyed the balloon. He abandoned the competition and returned to France. The competition was won by Augustus Knabenshue, in the California Arrow, identical to Santos-Dumont's No. 9.[51]: 252
- ^ No. 8 served as the model for the first airship designed by an American.[51]: 250 An October 1902 article in L'Aérophile says that the airship was made for George Francis Kerr, secretary of the New York Aeroclub, and was flown by Edward Boyce.[81]: 268 Boyce also bought No. 9.[82]: 91
- ^ A police report from 1903 indicated that Santos Dumont invested about 80,000 francs annually in his experiments.[70]: 248
- ^ Dumont reportedly abandoned the monoplane in favour of a biplane due to the Voisin brothers' persuasion.[44]: 366
- ^ On his visit to Brazil, read O Cruzeiro, 9 de outubro de 1974, p. 54
- ^ Henrique Lins de Barros' article says that the FAI did not consider that the claims of earlier flights (Ader, Lilienthal, Whitehead and Wrights) satisfied its criteria and that until 1905 there had been "...no actual flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft...".[32]: 39–40 The United States did not come up with its definitions until December 1907.[44]: 374 For other definitions, see Brandão 2018, p. 2.[52]: 2 Barros & Barros 2006 raises the question of the definition of flight: if by flight one considers only movement through the air, then the Wrights take precedence. If the criteria of public test and unassisted takeoff are considered, then precedence lies with Santos-Dumont. They consider that the Demoiselle represented the "first modern airplane".[59]: 27
- ^ The canard configuration has been rediscovered in modern aircraft such as Gripen, Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon and Sukhoi-35 because it is now possible to maintain rapid stability control.[43]: 231
- ^ Gabriel Voisin's test indicated that an engine of at least 50 hp would be required for takeoff.[59]: 24
- ^ Like the canard configuration, Hargrave cells and an appropriate engine.[43]: 226–227 Jornal do Commercio even reported in early 1906 that the helicopter and the airplane were developed simultaneously, because Santos Dumont wanted to compare the efficiency of both systems[97] and the same newspaper even announced that Santos Dumont had entered the new prize with the "Santos-Helicopter," aiming to experiment with both aircraft.[98]
- ^ Mattos 2012, says that with this Santos-Dumont invented the flight test.[44]: 366 The image of the 14-bis attached to the balloon is used as a symbol for experimental flight activities by the Brazilian Air Force, who consider Santos-Dumont to be a test pilot.[52]: 7
- ^ Barros 2021 says that the first experiments of the 14-bis attached to the balloon took place on 23 July.[54]: 8 Barros & Barros 2006 give the period 18–23 June 1906.[59]: 25
- ^ About his project, Santos-Dumont reported: "I slept for three years and in the month of July 1906 I presented myself on the Bagatelle field with my first apparatus... The question of the airplane had been on the agenda for some years, but I never took part in the discussions, because I have always believed that the inventor must work in silence; extraneous opinions never produce anything good".[54]: 7 At first he put in a 25 hp engine, but soon switched to a 50 hp Levavaseur and also changed the landing gear from three wheels to two.[59]: 25
- ^ In 1906 the Wright brothers were granted a patent for wing-warping, which provided control equivalent to ailerons, and they subsequently sued Glenn Curtiss and European aviators for patent infringement.[44]: 375 In France, Henri Farman claimed to have created this technology.[52]: 8
- ^ Or four.[19]: 14 Or six.[44]: 368
- ^ The prize of 1,600 francs was donated to his mechanics.[54]: 9
- ^ Ferber had been communicating with the Wrights since 1901, made an unsuccessful motorised copy of one of their gliders two years later, and published the letters he received from them in December 1905 as a way to get the French Army to buy their equipment, but most of France's aeronautical community did not believe that the Americans had succeeded in creating the aeroplane.[44]: 373
- ^ No. 16 was designed with passenger transport in mind, something that became a reality through DELAG.[44]: 363
- ^ No. 15 and 16 were unsuccessful and No. 17 would not have been tested.[32]: 43 Barros 2021 explicitly says that these inventions were abandoned before testing them.[54]: 9 Barros & Barros 2006 says that No. 17 was destroyed while trying to take off.[59]: 26
- ^ Barros & Barros 2006 declares the Demoiselle to be the first practical aeroplane in the world which used Cayley's configuration: "...a monoplane with a cruciform tail at the end of a long tubular fuselage."[59]: 26–27 and that the No. 19 should be considered as "the first modern airplane".[59]: 27
- ^ In January 1909 he received his first brevet from the Aéro-Club de France.[113] The other aeroplanes built at the time used the concept of the Demoiselle in some way, whether its configuration or stability;[43]: 227 the Demoiselle itself was inspired by the configuration of the Ariel, patented in 1842.[44]: 366
- ^ Barros 2006a: "He divulged the blueprints of the aircraft and was happy to see that successive versions of his Demoiselle, manufactured in various countries from his specifications, were incorporating improvements by the builders, which represented, to him, the best spirit of aeronautical research."[32]: 44
- ^ An opposed cylinder engine, whose cooling sulution was patented by Santos-Dumont. The Demoiselle with a two-cylinder engine became very popular.[44]: 371 When the Darracq company tried to claim the engine design, Santos Dumont went to court to get his project released into the public domain.[68]: 32
- ^ On 16 September 1909 Santos-Dumont achieved a speed record[54]: 10 of 96 km/h (60 mph).[113][52]: 9 The Demoiselle could reach over 100 km/h, with which he made the first crossing in the country, between Saint Cyr of the Buc, with stops every 8 kilometres.[44]: 371
- ^ According to Mattos, Wilbur Wright's first flights in August 1908 did not impress the European community and only improved after using old world technology in their aircraft (Mattos may be referring to motors built for the Wrights in Europe).[44]: 378 Other historians have noted that observers instantly showered Wilbur with praise for his fully-controlled flights, and that his flights in France and Orville's in the US made the brothers world famous. Pioneer French aviator Léon Delagrange, a witness, said of Wilbur's flights, "Nous sommes battus." ("We are beaten.")[114]
- ^ Barros 2021 says that Santos-Dumont sold a Demoiselle to Roland Garros in 1910.[54]: 10
- ^ At this meeting he was elected as an honorary member of the Aeroclub of America.[122]: 15
- ^ Cabangu.com.br says that the death was not registered until 3 December 1955.[139]
- ^ Raimundo de Menezes, then delegate of the Santos Police, reported that the censorship as to the cause of death had been a request from the family.[109]: 56
- ^ The original article can be found at Morel, Edmar (December 1944). "O Suicídio de Santos Dumont". A Cigarra (in Brazilian Portuguese). No. 129. pp. 118–119, 132 and 141.
- ^ The first aviator in the Americas to cross the Atlantic Ocean without support ships and without making stops was the Brazilian João Ribeiro de Barros in 1927.[144] The design of the Demoiselle allegedly influenced the aircraft that Blériot used in his crossing.[44]: 371
- ^ About Santos-Dumont and Powers' relationship, read CENDOC, Rio de Janeiro 2021, pp. 52–53
External links edit
Alberto Santos-Dumont
- Works by Alberto Santos-Dumont at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Santos-Dumont, My Airships 2022-02-22 at the Wayback Machine (tr. of Dans l'air)
- Works by or about Alberto Santos-Dumont at Internet Archive
- PBS Nova: Wings of Madness
- U. S. Centennial of Flight Commission Dumont
- Article by writer Patricia Nell Warren.
- , Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA).
- Letter to Brazil, by Neil deGrasse Tyson