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2012
Louis Blériot Crosses the Channel
Posted by HW on 25 Jul 2012 /
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Published July 25, 2012 On this date in aviation history in 1909, spurred on by a £1,000 prize offered by a British newspaper called the Daily Mail, the bankrupt Frenchman Louis Blériot flew the English Channel in an aircraft of his own design, the Blériot XI. For Louis Blériot, it would be a flight not [...]
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