List of Santos-Dumont aircraft
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Through his career, aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont
designed, built, and demonstrated a variety of aircraft
— balloon
s, airship
s (dirigibles), monoplane
s, biplane
s, a floatplane
and a helicopter
.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Alberto Santos-Dumont , was a Brazilian early pioneer of aviation. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers, Santos Dumont dedicated himself to science studies in Paris, France, where he spent most of his adult life....
designed, built, and demonstrated a variety of aircraft
Aircraft
An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. An aircraft counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.Although...
— balloon
Balloon
A balloon is an inflatable flexible bag filled with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, or air. Modern balloons can be made from materials such as rubber, latex, polychloroprene, or a nylon fabric, while some early balloons were made of dried animal bladders, such as the pig...
s, airship
Airship
An airship or dirigible is a type of aerostat or "lighter-than-air aircraft" that can be steered and propelled through the air using rudders and propellers or other thrust mechanisms...
s (dirigibles), monoplane
Monoplane
A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with one main set of wing surfaces, in contrast to a biplane or triplane. Since the late 1930s it has been the most common form for a fixed wing aircraft.-Types of monoplane:...
s, biplane
Biplane
A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two superimposed main wings. The Wright brothers' Wright Flyer used a biplane design, as did most aircraft in the early years of aviation. While a biplane wing structure has a structural advantage, it produces more drag than a similar monoplane wing...
s, a floatplane
Floatplane
A floatplane is a type of seaplane, with slender pontoons mounted under the fuselage; only the floats of a floatplane normally come into contact with water, with the fuselage remaining above water...
and a helicopter
Helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by one or more engine-driven rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forwards, backwards, and laterally...
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| Type | Name | Year | Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| balloon | Brésil | 1898 | - |
| airship | No. 1 | 1898 | - |
| airship | No. 2 | 1898 | - |
| airship | No. 3 | 1899 | - |
| airship | No. 4 | 1900 | - |
| airship | No. 5 | 1901 | - |
| airship | No. 6 Santos-Dumont number 6 The airship, designated as his #6, was designed and built by Alberto Santos-Dumont. He used it to win the Deutsch prize in 1901. It is considered by many to be the first truly successful airship.... |
1901 | Won the Deutsch prize. |
| airship | No. 7 | 1902 | Not clear whether it was ever flown; it was destroyed at the St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St... exhibition. |
| There was not a "No. 8"; Santos-Dumont was superstitious about the number. | |||
| airship | No. 9 Baladeuse | 1903 | - |
| airship | No. 10 | 1905 | A 10-person omnibus; made only test flights. |
| monoplane | No. 11 | 1905 | Used as glider Glider aircraft Glider aircraft are heavier-than-air craft that are supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against their lifting surfaces, and whose free flight does not depend on an engine. Mostly these types of aircraft are intended for routine operation without engines, though engine failure can... only, never given an engine. |
| helicopter | No. 12 | 1905-6 | - |
| airship | No. 13 | 1905 | - |
| airship | No. 14 | 1905 | - |
| biplane | No. 14-bis Santos-Dumont 14-bis The 14-bis , also known as , was a pioneer-era canard biplane designed and built by Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont... |
1906 | Tail-forward (canard Canard (aeronautics) In aeronautics, canard is an airframe configuration of fixed-wing aircraft in which the forward surface is smaller than the rearward, the former being known as the "canard", while the latter is the main wing... ) design; his historical flight. |
| biplane | No. 15 | 1906-7 | Tail-rearward (tractor) design. |
| airship | No. 16 | 1907 | - |
| biplane | No. 17 | - | Design only, never built. |
| floatplane | No 18 | - | Wingless; probably would have wings someday, but not followed up on. |
| monoplane | No 19 Demoiselle Santos-Dumont Demoiselle -External links:... |
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| monoplane | No 20 Demoiselle | - | A modification of No. 19, considered to be the first practical ultralight aircraft. |
| monoplane | No 21 Demoiselle | 1909 | - |
| monoplane | No 22 Demoiselle | - | With a different engine |