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Louis Bleriot the first man to cross the English Channel
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Louis Bleriot the first man to cross the English Channel • #louisbleriot #dover • The first person to fly the English Channel in an aeroplane was a Frenchman called Louis Blériot. The flight took place on 25 July 1909 and won Blériot a prize of £1,000 from the Daily Mail. An earlier attempt five days earlier, by Englishman Herbert Latham, had ended when he had ditched in the sea.Blériot, a motorcar headlamp manufacturer, had injured his foot and walked to his plane with the aid of crutches. • He took off at 4.37am and, guided by smoke from a French destroyer, he spotted St Margaret’s Bay. Turning towards Dover he was caught by the wind and made a crash landing in Northfall Meadow, behind the Castle, breaking the undercarriage and propeller. The whole journey had taken 20 minutes. • I visited the memorial which is in the form of a stone silhouette of Blériot’s plane and is set into the ground at the place where he landed. • -- • Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tudorsmith • -- • My other YouTube Channels • Tudor Smith: / tudorsmith • Tudor Smith Photography: / tudorsmithphotography • Drive With Care: / @drivewithcare_uk
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