Lives & Memoirs
My Airships: The Story of My Life
Alberto Santos-Dumont
1904
6h 9m
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The Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont tells of his early flights over Paris in dirigible airships, thrilling the city and racing toward the conquest of the air. His memoir captures the daring dawn of flight. A charming firsthand story for anyone who loves aviation history and the age of the great inventors.
Inside this audiobook
26 chapters
- 1Introductory Fable: The R13m
- 2The Coffee Plantation17m
- 3Paris - Professional Ball12m
- 4My First Balloon Ascent15m
- 5My 'Brazil'12m
- 6The Real and Imaginary Da17m
- 7I Yield to the Steerable18m
- 8My First Air-Ship Cruises10m
- 9How it Feels to Navigate16m
- 10Explosive Engines and Inf16m
- 11I Go in for Airship Build14m
- 12The Exposition Summer15m
- 13The Deutsch Prize and its11m
- 14A Fall Before a Rise17m
- 15The Building of My 'No. 610m
- 16Wining the Deutsche Prize11m
- 17A Glance Backward and For10m
- 18Monaco and the Maritime G18m
- 19Flights in Mediterranean15m
- 20Speed20m
- 21An Accident and its Lesso10m
- 22The First of the World's17m
- 23My 'No. 9,' the Little Ru19m
- 24The Air-Ship in War18m
- 25Paris as a Centre of Air-13m
- 26CONCLUDING FABLE: More Re4m
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