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Read Ebook: My Airships; The Story of My Life by Santos Dumont Alberto
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INTRODUCTORY FABLE 1
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CONCLUDING FABLE 327
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Santos-Dumont Coffee Plantation--Railway 11
Santos-Dumont Coffee Plantation--The Works 15
Henriques Santos-Dumont 25
The "Brazil"--Smallest of Spherical Balloons 43
Motor of "No. 1" 62
The "Santos-Dumont No. 1"--First Start 75
"No. 4"--Free Diagonal Movement up 83
"No. 6"--Free Diagonal Movement down 86
"The Housetops look so Dangerous" 94
Over the Bois de Boulogne. "An Ocean of Greenery soft and safe" 97
The Question of Physical Danger 101
"No. 9" catches Fire over the Ile de Puteaux 111
Accident to "No. 2," May 11, 1899 115
Accident to "No. 2," May 11, 1899 119
Accident to "No. 2," May 11, 1899 123
Accident to "No. 2," May 11, 1899 127
Start of "No. 3," November 13, 1899 131
"No. 4" 135
Motor of "No. 4" 139
Visit of Professor Langley 143
"No. 4"--Flight before Professor Langley 147
"Santos-Dumont No. 5" 152
"No. 5" leaving A?ro Club Grounds, July 12, 1901 158
"No. 5" returning from the Eiffel Tower 161
"No. 5"--Accident in the Park of M. Edmond de Rothschild 165
An Accident 170
Phase of an Accident 175
"No. 6"--First Trip 181
An Accident to "No. 6" 187
Scientific Commission of A?ro Club at the Winning of the Deutsch Prize 191
"No. 6" making for Eiffel Tower--Altitude 1000 feet 195
Round Eiffel Tower 199
Rounding Eiffel Tower 203
Returning to A?ro Club Grounds above Aqueduct 207
Medal awarded by the Brazilian Government 211
"No. 9"--Showing Captain leaving Basket for Motor 215
In the Bay of Monaco 219
From the Balloon House of La Condamine at Monaco, February 12, 1902 227
Wind A. Wind B 237
"Santos-Dumont No. 7" 249
"My present Aids understand my present Airships"--Motor of "No. 6" 261
"Santos-Dumont No. 5"--Showing how A?ro Club Grounds were cut up 267
First of the World's Airship Stations 271
"No. 7" 275
"No. 10"--without Passenger Keel 279
"Santos-Dumont No. 9" 283
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