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Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight by Paul Hoffman (Hardcover, 2003)

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From the author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, winner of the prestigious Rhone-Poulenc science award: the history of aviation told through the extraordinary story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the forgotten man who battled to be the first to free himself from the confines of the earth.

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A child of his time - Santos-Dumont had a blind faith in the future of technology and did not foresee the destructive power of the aircraft. Yet, his indomitable spirit was crushed as competition grew and the skies became full of hazardous aircraft. With the dawn of World War I, Santos-Dumont saw the devastating effect of aircraft and began to blame himself for every fatality. With such a weight on his mind Santos-Dumont became distracted from his dream and fears began to grow amongst his family and friends for his sanity. He made his last attempt to fly by sticking feathers to his arms and launching himself through a window in a sanatorium.