An aviation pioneer, Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral were the first to cross the South Atlantic Ocean by air, in a journey from March to June 1922, started in ...

Discover the remarkable achievements of Gago Coutinho, a renowned Portuguese aerial navigator. From inventing a precision sextant to performing the first ...

Gago Coutinho's interest in Nautical History and the Portuguese Explorations intensified throughout the years, motivated by his experience as a sailor, a ...

1922 first attempted South Atlantic crossing by air in Fairey IIIDs "Lusitania", "Portugal", and "Santa Cruz" (the airplanes were successively wrecked in ...

The first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic was made by the Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral in 1922, to mark the centennial ...

Admiral Gago Coutinho was a pilot for the Portuguese Navy in the 1920s. He is famous for his 1922 flight across the South Atlantic with fellow navigator, ...

PlaceType, Rise. Latitude, 37° 22' 36" N (37.37665864°). Longitude, 14° 17' 38.7" W (-14.29408713°). Min. Lat, 37° 5' 0" N (37.0833°).

Gago Coutinho, jointly with another Portuguese aerial navigator, managed to perform the First Flight from Europe to the South Atlantic in 1922, ...

This statue is in a park along the river. It's a tribute to Portuguese pioneers that flew to Brazil (how crazy is that??!!) The statue has a lot of detail and ...

Coutinho and Cabral developed another instrument called "path corrector" (Figure 5) to calculate graphically the angle between the longitudinal axis of an ...