#santosdumont — Public Fediverse posts
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The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/21/brazil-airplane-wright-brothers-santos-dumont/
#HackerNews #WrightBrothers #SantosDumont #Aviation #History #Brazil #Innovation
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In 2023 #SantosDumont would have been 150 years old! My friend Chico Ortiz made a woderful #Blender model of the #Demoiselle, pioneering example of #OpenHardware
---> http://prototipe.com.br/svg/demoi.html
(the blue square links to an online model viewer)
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Did the #WrightBrothers really fly first a heavier-than-air on its own propulsion? Maybe. But, most importantly, they didn't do it in public, didn't share the results, while others, more generous people did... ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Mechanics/Volume_13/Issue_6/How_to_Build_the_Famous_%22Demoiselle%22_Santos-Dumont_Monoplane
(#SantosDumont wanted everyone to be able to build their own Demoiselle, can you imagine that? #OpenHardware #PublicDomain)