The eccentric Santos=Dumont driving a carriage pulled by an ostrichJust like the storiesof Jules Verne inspired Santos=Dumont to create their flying machines, theirflying machines inspired other writers to create their characters. Santos=Dumonteccentricities and adventurous life has inspired lots and lots of adventurersand writers, just after his trip to United States and his return to Paris,great number of toys and publications appeared. I believe that Tom Swift wasthe most expressive character ever created based on Santos=Dumont real life.Leia este artigo em PortuguesTom Swift is the nameof the central character in five series of books, first appearing in 1910 andtotaling over 100 volumes, of American juvenile science fiction and adventurenovels that emphasize science, invention and technology. Tom Swift's Electric Car and Santos=Dumont Electric BuggyEdward Stratemeyer,one of the most prolific writers in the world, producing in excess of 1,300books, created the character himself, selling in excess of 500 million copies, andcreated the well-known fictional-book series for juveniles.Tom Swift's combined aeroplane-dirigibile and Santos=Dumont Number 14. Most of the inventionsin the Tom Swift series are enhancements of real inventors creation, as we seehere, the combined aeroplane-dirigibile balloon was a perfectly inspired inSantos=Dumont Number 14. Tom Swift's Giant Telescope and Santos=Dumont's Giant Telescope. Of course, many othercharacters of real life inspired Stratemeyer to create Tom Swift, however, severalexamples may be found with some elements in common with the Santos=Dumont'sactual history. Japanese community is conclusive in favor of Santos Dumont vs Wright brothers, on dispute 'who gave wings to mankind'Last February 11, LIGO experiment has proved that gravitational waves exists and opened a new era of astrophysics, right?- Wrong, two brothers from Dayton, OH, became the first people to prove the existence of such waves, three years ago.leia esta materia em Portugues- But they have witnesses?- Yes, some people who were near saw it.Today an affirmation as these would be considered ridiculous, misplaced and with total lack of criteria - an absurd, but it was exactly what happened to Santos-Dumont.The morning of November 12th 1906 the world was in ecstasy, for the first time the man was able to achieve the maximum dream, flying with a self-powered machine heavier-than-air in the presence of the scientific community, reporters from various countries of the world and many more hundreds of people.Some days later, American media frivolously discredited him by saying that brothers from Dayton, OH had already flown three years before Mr. Dumont, in the presence of 4 or 5 passers-by.Santos-Dumont has devoted much of his life to the flight, thoroughly studied the birds and the dynamics of flight, flew in several balloons baskets, airships designed by him in 15 years of research, created 14 previous inventions until he could effectively fly that day.But for the sake of history, Japanese community is very careful and devoted to judicious affirmations and is from Japan that comes the rescue of truth.The last edition of AGORA, a magazine for top executives distributed to passengers with a particularly high usage rate from among JAL passengers annually, brings an extensive article that describes the amazing truth about Santos=Dumonts life, and about the historical distortions that led