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"1ª Travessia Aérea" Monument
The first air crossing of the South Atlantic was completed successfully by the Portuguese airmen "Sacadura Cabral" and "Gago Coutinho" in 1922 in the context of the First Centenary celebrations of the Independence of Brazil.
The epic journey began in Lisbon, off the Tower of Belem, employing a single-engine seaplane for the trip specially designed and equipped with Rolls-Royce. Sacadura exercised the functions of the pilot and Gago Coutinho browser.
The latter was created and used during the trip, one adapted to an artificial horizon sextant to measure the height of the stars, an invention that revolutionized air navigation at the time.
Although the trip has consumed seventy-nine days, the flight time was only sixty-two hours and twenty-six minutes, having covered a total of 8,383 kilometers.
In 1991, a monument of the authorship of the architects and Leopoldo Soares Martins Bairrada White and sculptor Dominic Smith White, opens near the Tower of Belem consists of a stainless steel exact replica of one of the seaplanes that made the trip, Santa Cruz, and inside the busts in size, the two aviators.
Original Text from: www.guiadacidade.pt/pt/poi-monumento-1-travessia-aerea-23816
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"1ª Travessia Aérea" Monument
The first air crossing of the South Atlantic was completed successfully by the Portuguese airmen "Sacadura Cabral" and "Gago Coutinho" in 1922 in the context of the First Centenary celebrations of the Independence of Brazil.
The epic journey began in Lisbon, off the Tower of Belem, employing a single-engine seaplane for the trip specially designed and equipped with Rolls-Royce. Sacadura exercised the functions of the pilot and Gago Coutinho browser.
The latter was created and used during the trip, one adapted to an artificial horizon sextant to measure the height of the stars, an invention that revolutionized air navigation at the time.
Although the trip has consumed seventy-nine days, the flight time was only sixty-two hours and twenty-six minutes, having covered a total of 8,383 kilometers.
In 1991, a monument of the authorship of the architects and Leopoldo Soares Martins Bairrada White and sculptor Dominic Smith White, opens near the Tower of Belem consists of a stainless steel exact replica of one of the seaplanes that made the trip, Santa Cruz, and inside the busts in size, the two aviators.
Original Text from: www.guiadacidade.pt/pt/poi-monumento-1-travessia-aerea-23816
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