Santos-Dumont No. 6 | |
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General information | |
Type | Experimental airship |
National origin | France |
Manufacturer | Alberto Santos-Dumont |
Number built | 1 |
History | |
First flight | 30 August 1901[1] |
Developed from | Santos-Dumont number 5 |
The Santos-Dumont No. 6 was an airship designed and built by the Brazilian pioneer aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont. In 1901 it was used by him to win the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize for a flight from Parc Saint Cloud to the Eiffel Tower and back within thirty minutes.
On the very evening of my fall to the roof of the Trocadero hotels I gave out the specifications of a "Santos-Dumont, No. 6," and after twenty-two days of continuos [sic?] labour it was finished and inflated.