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Blériot, 1st Flight across The Channel - 1909 →
Louis Blériot was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. In 1909 he completed the first flight across a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft when he crossed the English Channel, receiving a prize of 1000 British pounds for doing so. He also is credited as the first person to make a working monoplane. Blériot was a pioneer of the sport of air racing....

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Louis Blériot was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. In 1909 he completed the first flight across a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft when he crossed the English Channel, receiving a prize of 1000 British pounds for doing so. He also is credited as the first person to make a working monoplane. Blériot was a pioneer of the sport of air racing.... More • http://en.wikipedia. ... %C3%A9riot View • Books • Images • Videos • Search Related • Engineers • Inventors • Pilots • 1900s • Airplane • Aviation • Cancer • France • Great Britain • July 01 • Plane • Technology • All Events • People

 
 
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   Charles Lindbergh, Aviator
   Charles Lindbergh, Aviator
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him. But Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop. Lindbergh's... (more)
  
       
     
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