%0 Journal Article %T Como Santos Dumont inventou o avi£¿o %A Visoni %A Rodrigo Moura %A Canalle %A Jo£¿o Batista Garcia %J Revista Brasileira de Ensino de F¨ªsica %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1806-11172009000300015 %X the fundamental aerodynamics forces in the heavier-than-air flight are four: thrust, drag, weight and lift. this article shows how alberto santos dumont, the great brazilian aviation pioneer, managed to create, starting from a lighter-than-air craft-the dirigible balloon - the first successful airplane in history, working only with those forces. %K alberto santos dumont %K aerodynamics forces %K dirigible balloon %K airplane. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1806-11172009000300015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en