This aircraft is 14-BIS and was the FIRST flying prototype in the human history to fly before eyewitnesses in Paris in 1904. His builder and cientist, Albert Santos Dumont, was a brasilian french descent who created pulse watch and the shower we use the bath in a daily basis. If you want to know more about him, make a search on the web about this amazing brilliant brazilian man. In fact the aircraft was going...going to the future!!!
Mr. Dumont was a very superstitious man. So, he made a lot of zeppelins (with the #6 he won a prize in Paris), but he never built a #13 airplane. So, he made a #14, and later a #14 Bis (a french costume to identify something with the same number). He also invented a stair that´s impossible to give the first step with the left foot. Only with the right foot!
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