Bleriot Reaches Dover
Photograph showing Louis Bleriot exhausted a few minutes after his successful flight from Calais to Dover. Standing in front of his aeroplane Bleriot XI that he designed and built by himself. Completing the first successful aviator to flight across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover in about forty minutes. Winning the Daily Mail prize of £1, 000 and also receiving the Cross of the Legion of Honour
Picture No
14072274
Media ID
47836092
Size
5099px x 4462px
(7.4MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph in Romance of Reality, The Aeroplane', page 110
Date
25th July 1909
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