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The first was the 1930 flight of twelve Savoia-Marchetti S.55 flying boats from Orbetello Seaplane Base, Italy to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between 17 December 1930 and 15 January 1931. The Crociera del Decennale featured the so-called "Italian Air Armada."
The Wright brothers' Wright Flyer making the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered airplane in 1903. Orville piloting while Wilbur observes. First controlled, sustained flight in a powered airplane: was made by Orville Wright in the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, covering 37 m (120 ft). [39]
"The Carioca" is a 1933 popular song with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn, as well as the name of the dance choreographed to it for the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio. The number was sung in the film by Alice Gentle , Movita Castaneda and Etta Moten and danced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as part of an ...
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[141] [nb 11] Brazil also built a hangar for airships at Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport, near Rio de Janeiro, at a cost of $1 million (equivalent to $22 million in 2018 [54]). [nb 12] Brazil charged the DZR $2000 ($44,000 [54]) per landing, and had agreed that German airships would land there 20 times per year, to pay off the cost. [139]
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The band Diamond Rio took their name from REO's successor company Diamond Reo Trucks. [11] The band misspelled "Reo" as "Rio", but lead singer Marty Roe decided to make a virtue out of his mistake, saying "I like it like that. It has a country-Southwestern flavor". [12]
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