The Blériot XI, built in 1909, was the result of several years of experiments, encouraged further by the public demonstration of the Wright Flyer. [Image courtesy of Patrick Chovanec] The article ...

JULY 25, 1909: French pioneer aviator Louis Blériot became the first airman to cross the English Channel in an aeroplane on this day in 1909. The businessman engineer won a £1,000 prize – worth around ...

LONDON, July 26, 1909 (UP) - London gave a tremendous welcome Monday to Louis Bleriot, the French aeronaut who crossed the English channel in his monoplane Sunday morning, when 500,000 people met him ...

To commemorate the first flight by æroplane across the English Channel by M. Louis Blériot on July 25, 1909, twenty-five years ago, a demonstration took place at his aerodrome at Hue near Paris on ...

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A restored original of the plane in which Louis Bleriot crossed the Channel 100 years ago took off on Saturday in a bid to emulate the French aviator's historic feat. A Bleriot XI cloth-and-wood ...

Louis Blériot shares more in common with his grandfather than just a famous name. Like the pioneering aviator, he dreams of one day crossing the English Channel in a Blériot XI. Since his unsuccessful ...

Click to open image viewer. The Blériot Type XI was designed primarily by Raymond Saulnier, but it was a natural evolution from earlier Blériot aircraft, and one to which Louis Blériot himself made ...