Fazenda Cabangu will certainly ring a bell with those truly interested in aviation history. At this farm, a former coffee plantation, young Alberto Santos Dumont grew up and started tinkering with coffee bean sorting machines. He went to Paris, France after that to become the first to fly around in steerable airships. He also made the first manned flight in Europe in a heavier than aircraft to take off under its own power in September 2006. By then, despite the much debated down-hill-catapulted first flights of the Wright brothers, they had actually flown many times already.

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