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Brazil: Celebrating FlightSpecial event station ZV100SD will be active on all bands until the end of October. This, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the historic flight of Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont. Alberto Santos-Dumont was an aviation pioneer, deemed the Father of Aviation by his countrymen. It was on on October 23rd , 1906 that Santos-Dumont's airplane called the 14-BIS flew for 50 meters. Later, on November 12th, the 14-BIS, flew a distance of 220 meters at the height of 6 meters and at the speed of 37 kilometers per hour. Santos-Dumont was eventually awarded the Archdecon Prize for having solved the problem of making a heavier-than-air machine take off by its own means. More about Alberto Santos-Dumont is on-line at: http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/scitech/
Source: ARNewsline™
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