A colour impression of one of the flights Albertp Santos-Dumont performed in September 1906 to win the Archdeacon cup for a flight of at least 25 meter. On 23 October 1906 he flew a distance of (at least) 60 meter at a height of ca. 3 meter and won the Archdeacon cup.
The design was a tail first (Canard) type with the engine - a 50 hp Antoinette - at the back. The pilot (Santos-Dumont) was standing up during the flight. Although the impression of the machine on this card is quite good he has 'imagined' and sort of aileron between the wing. Contemporary photographs do not support this.
The identity of the machine (14bis) owes it that the Santos-Dumont 14 was a dirigible which was used later to get the machine in the air for tests. Actual flights were done without this dirigible hence the identity 14bis.
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