Alberto Santos-Dumont
1873 – 1932 · Brazil · Engineering
Flew the first publicly witnessed powered aircraft in Europe.
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- Leonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519 · Engineering, Biology
Leonardo's flight studies are the imaginative precedent Santos-Dumont's dirigibles realised.
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