Flights of fancy: aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont was a real-life George Jetson with his very own flying machine. (Biography).(Biography) From: Book | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Barnes & Noble, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

WHEN HOLLYWOOD GETS ITS mitts on Wings of Madness, Paul Hoffman's riveting biography of iconoclastic Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932), they'll undoubtedly change some things. The ending, for one. Test audiences probably won't like the fact that one of the most whimsical inventors in the history of air travel--a man who would fly to dinner from his Paris apartment via his own personal dirigible, who won H.G. Wells' and Jules Verne's admiration, who hosted dinner parties featuring impossibly tall chairs and tables to simulate dining in midair--spent his ...

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