The Big Fat Lie!!! - Wright Brothers X Santos Dummond

[RafaelThielmann]

Since i'm the only brazilian in this forum i've decided to impart some wisdom:
You could not belive me, i don't really care, but take a few minutes read this and decide for yourself OK?

http://www.cabangu.com.br/pai_da_aviacao/

Since there's too much text to translate, i'll try to get a few english language translations from the Cabangu people.

The Wright Brothers could had flown before Santos Dummond, but their flight were not reconized by the authorities because there was nobody there to testify the correct distance, high, and the most important aspect, it had to be able to start the flight without any external help (by the time there was several "aircrafts" that used winds and towing to take off). If you can remember the wright brothers flyer needed to be catapulted to take off.

I have the evidence, and will send it to you as soon as i get it from Cabangu.

 

[RafaelThielmann]

Even better, a american site about him.

http://www.earlyaviators.com/edumont.htm

 

[A Squared]

Since i'm the only brazilian in this forum i've decided to impart some wisdom:
You could not belive me, i don't really care, but take a few minutes read this and decide for yourself OK?

Yeah, I ran into this same crap when I lived in Brasil: "A brazillain invented aviation" Yeah, right. Merde.


The only claim Santos Dumont has is that he's the first person to fly an airplane while being observed by one or more frenchmen. The french, of course claim, that the Wright brothers didn't do it first because no official french observers witnessed it. If a frenchman didn't see it, it didn't happen. Absolute horse$hit. By the time Santos Dumont flew the 14 bis in 1906, the Wright Brothers had been flying regularly for almost 3 years. They were making repeated aerial laps around Huffman Prairie ( field in Dayton Ohio) The longest flight was 39 minutes and circled the field 30 times. This was in 1905

and the most important aspect, it had to be able to start the flight without any external help (by the time there was several "aircrafts" that used winds and towing to take off). If you can remember the wright brothers flyer needed to be catapulted to take off.

Actually, no, it did not. Many of the Huffman Prairie flights used a catupult, but the 4 (that's right, four flights, with witnesses) flights at Kittyhawk on December 17, 1903, did not use a catapult.

 

[81Horse]

Rafael, boa sorte, dudinho.

 

[Metro752]

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