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Alberto Santos-Dumont (July 20, 1873 – July 23, 1932) was an important early pioneer of aviation.
Alberto Santos-Dumont (July 20, 1873 - July 23, 1932) was an important early pioneer of aviation.
Alberto Braniff (1884 - 1966) was a Mexican airplane pilot.
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 TONY BURTON - DID YOU KNOW? FACTS & FICTION WITH A MEXICAN TWIST JULY 2007
Alberto Braniff was the son of industrialist and railroad entrepreneur Thomas Braniff.
Alberto was sent to study in France, which is where he learned to fly and where he acquired a French built airplane which he subsequently brought back to Mexico when he returned.
Despite the coincidence of name, Alberto Braniff was not related to the Braniff family in the U.S. that would later found the eponymous airline.
mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/tonysarticles/tbdid0707.html   (1126 words)

  
 Paul Revere Braniff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Braniff began his own, small flying company soon after, eventually helping convince Tom Braniff and other investors to bring money and form the Oklahoma aero club, in 1928.
Revere Braniff was diagnosed with cancer later in his life, and he went on to spend his last couple of years resting.
Braniff suffered a cold in the summer of 1954, which later turned into a pneumonia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Revere_Braniff   (717 words)

  
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On June 6, 1994, defendant was charged as a juvenile with obstruction of justice and unlawful possession of a firearm stemming from the June 5 shooting.
Dr. Thomas Braniff, an emergency room physician, testified that he treated Alberto Vargas for a gunshot wound on June 5, 1994.
Alberto Vargas testified that at approximately 2 p.m.
www.state.il.us /Court/Opinions/AppellateCourt/1997/2ndDistrict/May/HTML/2950089.txt   (6193 words)

  
 Braniff Genealogy: Alberto Braniff first flight
And it is possible to connect a photo or document to multiple individuals.
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Alberto Braniff was the first mexican pilot and achieved the first flight in South America.
www.braniffs.ws /tng/showmedia.php?mediaID=14   (223 words)

  
 Mark Savory - Just having fun!
Driven in practice by Alberto Ascari, Piero Carini, Umberto Maglioli and Luigi Villoresi for the fourth stage of the newly instituted Constructors' World Championship at Spa Francorchamps.
Driven by Braniff in a race in Puebla, Mexico to a third overall.
During a practice session, the rear pinion bearing failed thus requiring repairs that were performed in a nearby aircraft hanger.
marksavory.com /0286am/index.html   (1562 words)

  
 Braniff
Alberto, recibió instrucción militar de Felipe Ángeles y en contra de su familia, apoyó a Venustiano Carranza, con
Braniff invitó a la concurrencia a un banquete en el círculo social “L’Escargot”, ubicado en el Paseo de la
Alberto Braniff falleció el 16 de septiembre de 1966.
jorgecornish.com /Braniff.html   (821 words)

  
 part 3 chap 5
The Commission has not been able to come to a conviction on whether he suffered a fatal human rights violation, since it could not be established that he was arrested nor is he registered as having died.
Carlos Alberto GALAN MANCILLA, 26, unmarried, and there is some evidence that he belonged to the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front.
Alberto MUNOZ POLANCO, an agent of the Banco del Estado in Marfa Elena who had socialist ideas.
www.nd.edu /~ndlibs/eresources/etexts/truth/part_3_chap_5.html   (10640 words)

  
 Ancestors of Lazurus Long & Lilieb555 - with connections to others peoples work
Alberto Azo I D' ESTE and Valdrada Of Venice CONDIANO.
Alberto Azzo II D' ESTE and Gresende Du MAINE were married.
Alberto Azzo II D' ESTE and Cunigunde Guelph Of ALTDORF were married in 1035 in
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~lzrslong/b1541.htm   (608 words)

  
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He was mortally wounded by a.38 caliber pistol shot in the throat, almost certainly fired by a Canal Zone police officer.
Alberto Oriol Tejada, a 36-year-old laborer, suffered birdshot wounds to his face and chest.
American-owned business in Colon, including a Sears store, reservation offices for Braniff and Pan American airlines and branches of the Chase Manhattan Bank and the First National City Bank were heavily damaged.
www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/99ca/Panama_Canal_Zone:_Beginning_of_the_End-part_2   (3297 words)

  
 Alberto Braniff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The aviator Alberto Braniff, on board a Voisin aeroplane, is about to takeoff.
El aviádor Alberto Braniff, a bordo de un aereoplano Voisin, se dispone a alavarse.
If you search on "Alberto Braniff" using Google, you will find about 33 links.
www.earlyaviators.com /ebraniff.htm   (125 words)

  
 Text Only--Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
During the period 1900-1906, small, usually single-person, blimps of the sort popularized by the Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont were used to entertain mass audiences in Europe and America.
It was the emergence of the German Zeppelin during the years 1900-1913 that marked the genuine coming of age of the rigid airship, however.
Braniff Airways gambled that new aircraft would help it recover market share-only to fly into a time of high fuel prices, high interest rates, and a new recession which forced the airline to shut down.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/text.htm   (17597 words)

  
 Flight Simulator Aircraft - Golden Age Douglas Aircraft
Registered NC13727, this aircraft was purchased by Braniff in July, 1937, and entered service shortly thereafter.
Thus he widened and lengthened the fuselage of the DC-2, and the DC-3 was born.
Repainted to honor Alberto Mesias, creator's grandfather who worked as a mechanic for Panagra (in Quito Ecuador) back in the early 40's.
www.oldbeacon.com /fs/fs_acft_list-12.htm   (965 words)

  
 Mexico
My name is Tomas P. Braniff, i have a lot of information on the family that came to latin america.
From: Braniff, Boyd E. Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 7:13 AM To: 'Suzette Estacaille'
Beatriz Braniff Cornejo (Braniff is her surname) is a published
www.braniffs.ws /mexico/mexico_home.htm   (240 words)

  
 MEXICO THIS MONTH - AN HISTORICAL REVIEW - JANUARY - TONY BURTON - IN MEXICO CONNECT
He dies in Mexico City April 11, 1861.
Alberto Braniff pilots the first flight in Mexico.
His plane, the "Voisin", built by Gabriel Voisin in Paris, takes off from the Balbuena plains near Mexico City and flies for 1.5 kilometers, reaching a velocity of 56 kilometers an hour and the dizzy height of 25 meters.
www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/tonysarticles/tbthismonthjanuary.html   (1570 words)

  
 FSDome.com - Microsoft Flight Simulator Downloads - Aircraft, Panels, Sounds, Scenery etc
FS2002 Braniff International McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14 registration N931EA.
The only DC-9 ever flown by Braniff International and withdrawn from use at Tucson, Arizona.
Original model by Kevin Trinkle, panel by Lonny Payne, air file and repaint by Alberto Guerrero.
www.fsdome.com /best/best2002_18.htm   (856 words)

  
 Pan-American Union — Infoplease.com
Alberto Lleras Camargo - Lleras Camargo, Alberto, 1906–90, president of Colombia (1945–46, 1958–62).
Famous names that flew away; Bankruptcy trip ended in aviation's graveyard for vaunted carriers Pan Am, Braniff, Eastern and TWA.(Rough......
Plaskett outlines strategy aimed at reviving a troubled Pan Am: stresses return to fundamentals, emphasis on serving the customer.......
www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/a0837453.html   (390 words)

  
 Tony Burton - LAKE CHAPALA - ATTRACTIONS FOR ALL
With the presidential seal of approval, the popularity of Chapala grew.
One very distinctive, European-style building became the home of Alberto Braniff, a member of the famous airline family.
Today, his house is a restaurant, the Cazadores.
www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/tonysarticles/tbchapala.html   (1379 words)

  
 Mexico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The map shows both national and international Mexican air routes.
Mexican aviation began in 1910 when Alberto Braniff flew a Voisin plane for 1.5 kilometers at an altitude of 25 meters on January 8.
His plane is pictured in the lower left corner of the stamp.
sio.midco.net /mapstamps/mexico.htm   (60 words)

  
 Italian Peninsula, 1900 A.D.–present | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Under the leadership of Alberto Alessi (born 1946), the company acquires a reputation for
(1914–1992) is hired to produce flight attendant uniforms for Braniff International Airways.
Earlier, in the late 1940s, Pucci had been "discovered" at Zermatt, Switzerland, by fashion editor Diana Vreeland (1906–1989) when she noticed the ski outfits he designed and wore there.
www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/11/eust/ht11eust.htm   (3639 words)

  
 Information about Jorge Chavez. Jorge Chavez profile - Peru Andes Travel
It was in Europe that he became fascinated with aviation, since that field was much more broader there than it was in Latin America during Chavez's era.
Some of Chavez's contemporary Latin American pilots included Mexico's Alberto Braniff and Argentina's Jorge Newbery.
Chavez climbed for an altitute level of 5,405 feet at Blackpool, England, one month before his death.
www.peru-andes-travel.com /Peru/Jorge-Chavez   (398 words)

  
 FUERZA AEREA MEXICANA. Historia. Inicios
En un breve vuelo el joven deportista y acaudalado mexicano Alberto Braniff se convirtió en el primer hombre en volar un avión propulsado a motor en toda Latinoamérica, un avión Voissin sirvió para tal efecto.
Así como el valeroso Braniff, también otros mexicanos pronto probarían las sensaciones del vuelo a motor.
Con 3 monoplanos Moisant Morane, un puñado de jóvenes pilotos mexicanos y extranjeros, liderados por el Capitán Alberto Salinas Carranza, formaron la primera unidad militar de aviación llamada Flotilla Aérea Constitucionalista, ese mismo año.
www.aztecmodels.com /fam/Historia/inicios.htm   (318 words)

  
 The Martyrs of 1964 - Page 2
The next morning,the bodies of 6 Panamanians, who were probably trapped in the burning building while looting or vandalizing it, were found in the wreckage.
The Chase Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank, the offices of Eastman Kodak, a Singer Sewing Machine Company store, a Sears, Roebuck and Company store, Goodyear and Firestone tire outlets, Braniff Airline's reservation agency and the premises of several American-owned utility companies were trashed.
Truckloads of Panamanian students went from American-owned business to American-owned business on missions of destruction.
www.serve.com /~CZBrats/Jackson/martyrs/martyrs2.htm   (2334 words)

  
 Riviera Communities
Near the waterfront,the historic Braniff House now operates as Cazadores Restaurant which has a fine reputation not only for serving fine food but also for providing a look into the past.
Braniff House (named after Alberto Braniff of the famed U.S. airline company) was built almost completely with materials imported from Europe.
Construction began in 1903 and was completed in 1906.
www.cmeeajijicvillage.com /lakeside.html   (2721 words)

  
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By Paolo the Pilot Prepared Remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the We feel that it is an honor to serve those in uniform in this way.
Gonzales at the emblems Why American Airlines A few service employees and not pilots and as such need not wear uniforms.Linda Chavez 11, and several of the hijackers possessed stolen identification cards and pilots' were also employed by American Airlines planes look so dirty
Braniff in his pilot's uniform he would have uniforms
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 Austinist: In the News
I would later learn of Braniff ties to a parishioner of mine from Houston, whose businesses were linked to a pattern of narco-dollar laundering through HUD mortgages and exposed by the May, 2000 release of evidence in a qui tam law suit involving former Under Secretary of HUD, Catherine Austin Fitts.
Armstong sat on the board of Braniff with Iran-Contra asset Walter Mischer, the Houston Developer who Peter Brewton shows had purchased the 700,000 acre Iran-Contra training ground in Belize with Coca-Cola's CEO, Charles W Duncan.
Florence, you know that I know Braniff, since the Braniff CEO, Howard Putnam, was a member of my Plano Church along with the FBI's Oliver "Buck" Revell.
www.austinist.com /archives/2005/08/23/in_the_news.php   (10971 words)

  
 Tvo en la Red   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Muere en la ciudad de México, donde naciera el 8 de junio de 1816, don Manuel Orozco y Berra, exseminarista palafoxiano, ingeniero en agrimensura, funcionario público, periodista, geólogo, arqueólogo e historiador; fue presidente de la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística hasta un año antes de su muerte.
El capitán Alberto del Canto, funda la villa de Santiago de Saltillo (hoy ciudad capital del Estado de Coahuila), de la que fue su primer alcalde mayor.
El día 21, al triunfo del Plan de Tacubaya, es depuesto el presidente Comonfort, por lo que en esta fecha, una Junta de Representantes de los Estados, nombra Presidente interino de la República al general Félix Zuluoaga, quien tomará posesión al día siguiente.
www.tvoenlared.com /web/paginas/enero.htm   (6930 words)

  
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Hacia 1842 destacó por sus vuelos en globo Don Benito León Acosta, quien junto con Don Joaquín de la Cantolla y Rico y Don Manuel Lapuente, fundaron en 1844 la primera empresa Mexicana dedicada al transporte aéreo civil.
El 8 de enero de 1910 en los llanos de Balbuena en la capital azteca, despegó Don Alberto Braniff Ricard en su biplano Voisin para inmortalizarse como el primer mexicano que voló un aeroplano; asimismo ponían a México como el primer país latinoamericano en que se voló con éxito en avión.
Al plantearse el desarrollo de la aviación comercial en México se hace indispensable que el gobierno federal norme y controle todas las actividades relacionadas con este motivo comenzando por las empresas sus aeronaves y el personal técnico interviene directamente en ella.
clacsec.lima.icao.int /mexicorezena.htm   (640 words)

  
 San Felipe calendar of events 2007
Saturday Singles - No Host Dinner (to be announced at SFARP)
HISTORICAL ITEM: Alberto Braniff pilots the first flight in Mexico.
His plane, the "Voisin" takes off near Mexico City and flies.9 mile reaching a speed of 34 miles an hour and rising 82 feet into the air.
www.sanfelipe.com.mx /news/calendar.html   (2822 words)

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