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Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (/ ˈ b l ɛr i oʊ / BLERR-ee-oh, also US: / ˈ b l eɪ r i oʊ, ˌ b l eɪ r i ˈ oʊ, b l ɛər ˈ j oʊ / BLAY-ree-oh, - OH, blair-YOH, French: [lwi bleʁjo]; 1 July 1872 – 1 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a ...
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 ...
Louis Blériot vers 1906-1916. Louis Blériot, né le 1er juillet 1872 à Cambrai et mort le 1er août 1936 à Paris, est un constructeur de lanternes d' automobiles, d' avions, de motocyclettes et de chars à voile, et un pilote précurseur et pionnier de l'aviation française.
Jul 25, 2009 · Home / Blériot's Cross-Channel Flight. Early in the morning of July 25th, 1909 - a hundred years ago - Louis Blériot (1872-1936) crossed the English Channel, a distance of 22 statute miles (36.6 km) from Les Barraques (near Calais) to Dover. There had been longer flights and further flights, but the conquest of the Channel by air was a ...
Apr 25, 2020 · Louis Blériot would take part in flying displays as a celebrity appearance in the years preceding the First World War. You can explore the site where Blériot took off, now named Blériot Plage at Les Baraques, Calais. A water tower decorated with murals depicting the event, now stands close to the location of the starting point.
Oct 30, 2013 · The summer of 1909 saw two serious contenders, Louis Blériot and Hubert Latham (1883-1912), both waiting in France for unseasonable windy weather to abate. Blériot had sustained nasty burns to his foot on a previous flight but at about 02.30hrs on the morning of Sunday 25 July, he was driven to Barraques, near Sangatte.
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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.
