Sarmento de Beires [SEP] place of death
Sarmento de Beires
José Manuel Sarmento de Beires (born September 4, 1892 in Lisbon, Portugal; died June 8, 1974 in Porto, Portugal) was a Portuguese Army officer and an aviation pioneer.
Sarmento de Beires became famous for having piloted the First night-time aerial crossing of the Atlantic in April 1927.
The first night-time flight over the South Atlantic.
The first night aerial crossing over the South Atlantic (and part of North Atlantic) was going to be made in a Portuguese
the History of Aviation by performing a number of pioneer flights. Among these were the first flight to Macau performed by Brito Pais, Sarmento Beires and Manuel Gouveia in 1924, the first night-time flight across the Atlantic performed by Sarmento de Beires, Jorge de Castilho and Manuel Gouveia in 1927, the first flight to Goa, Portuguese India performed by Moreira Cardoso and Sarmento Pimentel in 1930, the first flight to Portuguese Guinea and Angola, performed by Carlos Bleck and Humberto da Cruz in 1931 and the first flight to Portuguese