A rigorous and demanding Historian: these are the first words that came to my mind about Rui Costa Pinto.And I also find other words: friendly, willing to help, a fighter, persistant and with a smile – especially when talking about Gago Coutinho.Rui Costa Pinto has been with the Lusitânia 100 Project since its first day: […]
“Porto Praia – S Pedro and S Paulo leg At 4:30 a.m. on the morning of April 18, we started to drain the water on the floats […]” We will dedicate this day to the reconstitution of the “Great Jump” between Cape Verde and the Penedos de S. Pedro and S. Paul – tiny rocks, […]
Penedos, done during 18th April 1922, with Gago Coutinho, in his simple words:“[…] After 11h and 21 minutes of flight, the gas was running out.The Penedo – a few rocks not very high – can only be seen very close, from the 300 meters high we were flying.However, as we were alighting next to the […]
They arrived in S. Vicente on April 5, 1922, coming from the Canary Islands. Sacadura Cabral was deeply worried: “By day countless telegrams of congratulations have been received and at night we think about the dead end we seem to be in.” Better than anyone knows, after two long legs, that the excessive consumption of […]
11th April 1922 – Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho are in Cape Verde. They arrived in S. Vicente on April 5, 1922, coming from the Canary Islands. Sacadura Cabral was deeply worried: “By day countless telegrams of congratulations have been received and at night we think about the dead end we seem to be in.” […]