The New York Times

WRIGHTS SURPRISED BY BLERIOT'S FEAT; Did Not Believe His Monoplane Could Do It -- Both Praise the Daring Aviator. THINK THEIR CRAFT BEST Government Test Over Broken Country ...

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The New York Times

HAYDEN SANDS BUYS FIRST BLERIOT FLIER; Young New Yorker Gets Monoplane Modeled After the One That Crossed English Channel. SOON TO TRY IT OUT HERE May Make a Trip Up the ...

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PBS

Tour a Blériot XI

In 1909, during an era when short, low flights over open fields were considered major victories, French inventor Louis Blériot stunned the world by crossing the English Channel in his Blériot XI ...
PBS

Daring Flight, A

To analyze the evolution of designs that led up to the invention of the Blériot XI, the first plane to cross the English Channel. While not as methodical in his approach to airplane design as the ...
UPI

London honors Bleriot for flying across English Channel

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 ...
Times of Malta

Replica monoplane crashes

A Bruay-en-Artois’ aeromodelling club 1:2 scale replica of the original Louis Bleriot monoplane taking off the airfield of the French northern town of Marck near the neighbouring city of Calais, to ...