In Brazil, Santos-Dumont bought a small lot on the side of a hill in the city of Petrópolis, in the mountains near Rio de Janeiro, and in 1918 built a small house there filled with imaginative mechanical gadgetry including an alcohol-fueled heated shower of his own design.

Pedro's Palace is nowadays the Imperial Museum, one of the main attractions of the ' alpine city ' of Petrópolis, together with the Cathedral of Saint Peter of Alcântara, the Crystal Palace and the House of Santos-Dumont (: pt: Museu Casa de Santos Dumont ).

* 19 October – Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont collects the FF100, 000 ( USD $ 50, 000 ) Deutsch de la Meurthe prize by flying his dirigible Number 6 from the Aero Club at Saint-Cloud, Paris, around the Eiffel Tower, and back in less than one hour.

While ultralight-type planes date back to the early 1900s ( such as the Santos-Dumont Demoiselle ), there have been three generations of modern, fixed-wing ultralight aircraft designs, which are generally classed by the type of structure.

) The most successful early pioneering pilot of this type of aircraft was the Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont who effectively combined a balloon with an internal combustion engine.

One historic early aviator, Alberto Santos-Dumont, is known to have not only often used an equals sign (=) between his two surnames in place of a hyphen, but also seems to have preferred that practice, to display equal respect for his father's French ethnicity and the Brazilian ethnicity of his mother.

In 1911, Santos-Dumont moved from Paris to the French seaside village of Bénerville ( now Benerville-sur-Mer ) where he took up astronomy as a hobby.

* December 3 – In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sent to greet Alberto Santos-Dumont crashes near Cap Arcona, killing all on board.

In addition to his pioneering work in airships, on 23 October 1906 Santos-Dumont, flew the 14-bis or Oiseau de proie ( French for " bird of prey "), the first flight of an airplane to be witnessed by the European press and certified by the Aéro Club de France and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ( FAI ).

However, upon arrival in St. Louis, Santos-Dumont found his airship ’ s gas bag to be irreparably damaged: sabotage, although suspected, was never proven, and Santos-Dumont did not participate in the contest after suspicion of the deed, a repeat of a similar incident in Boston, began to focus somewhat absurdly on Santos-Dumont himself, and he indignantly left the Fair and returned immediately to France.

Although Santos-Dumont continued to work on dirigibles, his primary interest soon turned to heavier-than-air aircraft.

The Wrights flew earlier, and Santos-Dumont took off on wheels before the Wrights, earning a variety of prizes and official records in France.

Alberto Santos-Dumont – seriously ill, and said to be depressed over his multiple sclerosis ( not confirmed ) and the use of aircraft in warfare during São Paulo's Constitutionalist Revolution committed suicide by hanging himself in the city of Guarujá in São Paulo, on July 23, 1932.

Alberto Santos-Dumont footage starts at 21 seconds in this 1945 newsreel on various firsts in human flight, but be aware of controversial claims in the narration ( Media: First flights in aviation history. ogg | full size ).

Santos-Dumont went on to design and build several aircraft.

The Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont made a public flight with the flying machine designated 14-bis also known as Oiseau de proie ( French for " bird of prey "), on 13 September 1906 in Paris ( three years after the Wright Brothers flight in 1903 ).

Alberto Santos-Dumont – seriously ill, and said to be depressed over his multiple sclerosis ( not confirmed ) and the use of aircraft in warfare – is believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself in the city of Guarujá in São Paulo, on July 23, 1932.

Onoda was awarded the Merit medal of Santos-Dumont by the Brazilian Air Force on December 6, 2004.

* 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.

* 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.

* October 23 – An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters ( 200 feet ).

In 1904, Santos-Dumont shipped his new airship No. 7 ( also called Racer ), from Paris to St. Louis to fly at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to compete for the Grand Prize of $ 100, 000 which was to be given to a flying machine ( of any sort ) that could make three round-trip flights over a 24 km ( 15 mile ) “ L ”- shaped course at an overall average speed of 32 kph ( 20 mph ), later reduced to 24 kph ( 15 mph ).

Possessing a good performance, flying at a speed of more than 100 km / h, the Demoiselle was the last aircraft designed by Santos-Dumont.

* 13 September – Alberto Santos-Dumont successfully flies his Santos-Dumont 14-bis aircraft at Château de Bagatelle, for the first time.

* 23 October – Alberto Santos-Dumont wins the Archdeacon Prize as he flies his Santos-Dumont 14-bis aircraft at Château de Bagatelle in Bois de Boulogne in Paris, France, a distance of 60 m ( 197 ft ).

Santos-Dumont at the Eiffel Tower.

Santos-Dumont is a small lunar impact crater that lies in the northern end of the Montes Apenninus range at the eastern edge of the Mare Imbrium.

In 1905, Alberto Santos-Dumont made what is likely the first attempt at a hybrid aircraft.

Notable past visitors to the mountain peak include Pope Pius XII, Pope John Paul II, Alberto Santos-Dumont, German Sueiro Vasquez, Albert Einstein, and Diana, Princess of Wales.

* July 20 – Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer ( d. 1932 )

** Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer ( b. 1873 )

The 14-bis airplane, built by Alberto Santos-Dumont, was modified to add interplane octagonal-planform ailerons in its outermost wing bays in late 1906, though it was never fully controllable in flight, likely due to its unconventional wing form.

Alberto Santos-Dumont (; ( July 20, 1873 – July 23, 1932 ) was a Brazilian aviation pioneer.

Santos-Dumont designed, built, and flew the first practical dirigible, demonstrating that routine, controlled flight was possible.

In his homeland, Brazil, Santos-Dumont is considered a national hero and the father of aviation, having his name written in Brazilian Hero Panthéon.

Santos-Dumont was born in Cabangu Farm, a farm in the Brazilian town of Palmira, today named Santos Dumont in the state of Minas Gerais, in the Southeast Brazil.

At 17, Santos-Dumont left the prestigious Escola de Minas in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, for Paris.

Santos-Dumont # 6 rounding the Eiffel Tower in the process of winning the Deutsch Prize.

Santos-Dumont described himself as the first " sportsman of the air.

In 1898, Santos-Dumont flew his first balloon design, the Brésil.

To win the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize Santos-Dumont decided to build a bigger craft, the dirigible Number 5.

Santos-Dumont survived the explosion and was left hanging in a basket from the side of the hotel.

On October 19, 1901, after several attempts, Santos-Dumont succeeded in making the trip in using his dirigible Number 6.

Finally, after several days of vacillating by the committee of officials, Santos-Dumont was awarded the prize as well as the prize money of 125, 000 francs.