Gago Coutinho (1869-1959) was a Portuguese aviation pioneer that, together with Sacadura Cabral (1881-1924), was the first to cross the South Atlantic Ocean by air in 1922, from Lisbon, in Portugal, to Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. Sacadura Cabral (1881-1924), was a Portuguese aviation pioneer that, together with Gago Coutinho (1869-1959), was the first to cross the South Atlantic Ocean by air in 1922, from Lisbon, in Portugal, to Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. ... Lisbon (in Portuguese, Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal. ... Ipanema beach A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in Portuguese) is the name of both a state and a city in southeastern Brazil. ...
Carlos Viegas GagoCoutinho was born in Belém, Lisbon, on 17 February 1869.
GagoCoutinho’s activity can be divided into four main areas that follow each other chronologically: navy, especially from 1893 to 1898; geographical works, between 1898 an 1920; aerial navigation, from 1919 to 1927; and nautical history and the history of the discoveries, from 1925 to 1958.
From March 1989 onwards, most of GagoCoutinho’s activity was developed within the framework of the Cartography Commission, created in 1883, first on field works to mark off borders or geodesics processed in Timor, Mozambique, Angola and S. Tomé, and as from 1919 as a member of this Commission.
GagoCoutinho and Sacadura Cabral planned their 1922 voyage in the historical tradition of Portuguese navigation.
Coutinho was an expert in astronomical science and the navigator of the expedition and Cabral the pilot.
About 1 hour and 20 minutes later, when Coutinho and Cabral’s hopes were vanishing under fatigue and sleepiness, a distant light in the dark emerged to which they responded with two gun shots.
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