Private Fairey IIID MK II -
Manuel EstevezR
Alejandro Alvarez
Image ID: 450652
Views: 913
Operator: Private - -
Aircraft: Fairey - IIID MK II
Airport: Portugal - Off Airport - Portugal
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2014-8-13 by Nacho Rodriguez [Contact]
Camera setting: Canon EOS 500D, 1/800s, f/7.1 at 40mm ISO 200
Photographer's remark
(1.9.2014, 22:31 CET)
This monument, which replicates the seaplane called "Lusitania", commemorates the exploits of pilots Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral, who conducted the First Aerial Crossing of the South Atlantic, between 30 March and 17 June 1922, in the context commemorations of the First Centenary of the Independence of Brazil.
Crossing joined the cities of Lisbon (Portugal) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and during the 79 days of the trip were covered 8,383 km.
Gago Coutinho invented the sextant that bears his name.
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