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    United States – of original Blériot XI aircraft are thought to be the two oldest flyable aircraft in the world. The Blériot XI, largely designed by Raymond...
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    was the first of five children born to Clémence and Charles Blériot. In 1882, aged 10, Blériot was sent as a boarder to the Institut Notre Dame in Cambrai...
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    Aéronautique Louis Blériot" (Louis Blériot Aeronautical Research) at Courbevoie in March 1909. Blériot V Blériot VI Blériot VII Blériot VIII Blériot XI as first...
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    one of which powered Louis Blériot's 1909 cross-channel flight. An Anzani three-cylinder engine that powers a Blériot XI operated by The Shuttleworth...
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    The Blériot VIII was a French pioneer era aeroplane built by Louis Blériot, significant for its adoption of both a configuration and a control system that...
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    spring of 1910, Moisant took four flying lessons at the Blériot School, headed by Louis Blériot, in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, beginning his short...
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    with fellow French aviator Louis Blériot popularizing Esnault-Pelterie's control format initially on Louis' Blériot VIII monoplane in April 1908, and...
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    joystick and rudder bar. It was an important predecessor of his later Blériot XI Channel-crossing aircraft of the summer of 1909. World War I served as...
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    airplane flight across the English Channel: was completed by Louis Blériot in a Blériot XI on July 25, 1909, to win a £1,000 Daily Mail prize. First animal...
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