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The Wright Brothers Aeroplane did not take off on its own power...


ON the SEXUALITY DE SANTOS DUMONT
via email from Jos? Menezes, 3-9-05 Several controversies surrounded Santos Dumont in life and after his death. These range from who is the father of aviaition, which many in the United States attribute to the Wilbur and Orville Wright brothers, to his personal sexuality. One of his noted biographers, Lieutenant-colonel Peter Wykeham, of the British Air Force, records that he showed little interest for women during his life.
However, the controversy on this point tends to heat up toward the end of the year, when the controversial Bahian anthropologist Luiz Mott, of the Grupo Gay de Bahia, (Gay Group of the Bahia), will be releasing his book whose title is already defined: "Was Santos Dumont a Homosexual?"
The controversy on the Wright Brothers can be resolved if we accept the fact that Wilbur and Orville failed to qualify due to the fact that their aeroplane lacked sufficient power to be launched on its own and had to rely on a catapult to leave the ground. It is a matter of record that Santos Dumont, in 1903, was able to take off in his 14 Bis under its own power.