While not as methodical in his approach to airplane design as the Wright Brothers, Louis Blériot tried to learn something from each of his designs as he sought to make an airplane that would stay ...
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] For this session ...
In 1909, the French experimenter Louis Bleriot made the first crossing of the English Channel by airplane. The aircraft he used, his Model XI, was similar in its general configuration to what we ...
Engine failure caused a model Bleriot plane to crash into the Channel today during an attempt to fly it from France to England. The plane, which was half the size of an original Bleriot monoplane, had ...
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