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Date: | 12-NOV-1906 |
Time: | |
Type: | Santos-Dumont No.14bis |
Owner/operator: | Private |
Registration: | |
C/n / msn: | 14-bis |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Minor |
Location: | Paris -
France
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Demo/Airshow/Display |
Departure airport: | Plaine de Jeux de Bagatelle |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Pilot: Alberto Santos-Dumont.
First flight of the 14-bis airplane.
First flight to be publicly witnessed by a crowd.
First machine self-propelled to flight
The aircraft landed in a nose-up attitude, breaking the propeller in his third flight.
Sources:
Wikipedia and historical data.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Mar-2008 10:06 |
Bleiente |
Added |
15-Jan-2018 14:13 |
TMApoa |
Updated [Date, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
15-Jan-2018 14:15 |
harro |
Updated [Date, Damage, Narrative] |
17-Jan-2018 15:15 |
Brzhist |
Updated [Date, Cn, Destination airport, Narrative] |