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Louis Blériot (born July 1, 1872, Cambrai, France—died Aug. 2, 1936, Paris) was a French airplane manufacturer and aviator who made the first flight of an airplane between continental Europe and Great Britain. Blériot, a graduate of the École Centrale in Paris, met and married Alice Vedène while performing military service as a lieutenant ...
Jul 25, 2009 · Louis Blériot, left, stood in front of his plane on July 25, 1909, after he flew it across the English Channel to Dover, England, from France. At the time, his feat was an international sensation ...
Louis Bleriot, the 37-year old French inventor, aircraft designer, and self-trained pilot, flew across the treacherous English Channel early on July 25, 1909, in an aircraft he designed himself--the Bleriot XI. The flight from Les Barraques, France, to Dover, England, undertaken in bad weather, earned him the £1000 prize that the London Daily ...
- From Engineer to Aviator
- Stepping Up to A Challenge
- Takeoff Into The History Books
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After graduating from the prestigious Ecole Centrale in Paris, Bleriot quickly established himself as a talented engineer and launched his own company to sell the world's first practical car headlamp. This money generated from this business allowed him to follow his dream to develop his own aircraft. The inventor's first aircraft was an ornithopter...
The following year, Bleriot built his funding and created a number of working aircraft. At the same time, Lord Northcliff of the British Daily Mail newspaper announced a £1,000 cash prize for the first powered flight across the English Channel. Bleriot was not the only person to express interest in the competition, but that only motivated him even ...
In the early morning hours of July 25th, 1909, Louis Bleriot took off bound for Dover. Without the aid of a compass, he drifted slightly east of his intended course and temporarily lost his bearings over the sea. Bleriot was relieved to see the white cliffs of Dover a few minutes later, and subsequently landed near Dover Castle as a result of the w...
A few months after his famous flight, Bleriot was badly injured in a crash during a flying exhibition in Istanbul. He gave up professional flying and concentrated on his growing aviation business. Within three years, the company had manufactured its 500th airplane and employed more than 150 engineers and workers. By the time World War I broke out, ...
The Bleriot Takes to the Air! YouTube Channel: Mike Clouse , posted August 20, 2015. The French Bleriot XI was the most produced aircraft of the pioneer era. It was a ‘tractor’ (engine in the front) monoplane with an open box-girder fuselage. When Louis Bleriot flew the English Channel in one on July 25, 1909, it became one of the most ...
Jul 25, 2022 · Get notified of the hottest news. On the morning of July 25, 1909, Louis Blériot landed at Northfall Meadow near Dover Castle, England. A relative unknown, Blériot had just achieved the first Channel crossing by aeroplane. The flight between Calais and Dover made Blériot an instant celebrity, captivating the public in a new world of exciting ...
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Jul 25, 2007 · On this day in engineering history, Louis Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine, a one-seat monoplane named the Blériot XI. The 22-mile trip from Les Barraques, France to Dover, England took only 36.5 minutes, but earned the French engineer a thousand-pound prize from the London Daily Mail.
