Santos-Dumont No. 6 airship
Dirigible Santos-Dumont n.º 6
- Date
- 19 de octubre de 1901 · confidence high
- Place
- Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France, France
- Credited to
- Alberto Santos-Dumont
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A petrol-engined airship with a light keel in which Santos-Dumont circled the Eiffel Tower from Saint-Cloud in under 30 minutes and won the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize. It showed that an airship could be steered with precision.
Santos-Dumont had already flown powered airships earlier (No. 1 in 1898); No. 6 is the one that won the prize.
What it led to
- Popularisation of aeronautics among the public
- Encouragement of powered flight pioneers
- Small personal airships