Private aviation is synonymous with luxury and seamless logistics., Operations Director at PVJets, looks at the hangar that ...

At first, since the Wright Brothers had been toiling in relative obscurity, French aviators heralded Santos Dumont’s flight as the world’s first. Now, much to Brazil’s distress, the French and most of ...

Many hackers are also aviation fans, and the name of Alberto Santos Dumont may be familiar, but if not, here we talk about his role and accomplishments in the field. Santos Dumont is one of the ...

When Alberto Santos-Dumont built his first balloon, in 1898, there were already aeronauts in the skies of Europe. Young, rich and unmarried, the Brazilian could have been just one more to enjoy the ...

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Brazilians hear a different story: that the true inventor of the airplane was Alberto Santos Dumont — commonly described here as “the father of aviation.” For more than a century ...