Brasília, Brazil - October 22, 2006
Celebration of Santos Dumont‘s invention of the airplane and flight of the first self-propelled, heavier-than-air craft. The replica flew a distance of 450 metres (~ 492 yards) at a height of 6 metres (~ 19 feet)!
Watch the video of Santos Dumont 14-bis Replica flying!
North Carolina, U.S.A. - December 17, 2003
Replica of the Wright Brother‘s Flyer. The machine repeated the performance of previous replicas and was incapable of taking off, twice....
“A 100th-anniversary attempt to re-create the Wright brothers‘ first flight flopped Wednesday when a delicate, wood-and-muslin replica of their airplane failed to get off the ground and splashed into a mud puddle.‘ - Wired News