The first cross-Channel flight

In 1908, aviation practice is born. After groping in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first sustained flight in the United States, December 17 1903.
Henry Farman biplane on its “neighbors” was made on 1 km closed circuit officially controlled in Issy-les-Moulineaux, January 13 1908. He completed [...]

The 100th anniversary of Louis Blériot’s historic flight across the English Channel is being celebrated in July 2009 with a new sheet of collectable Royal Mail Stamp Sheets and a set of Commemorative Covers – The Blériot Collection.
Leading philatelic specialists Buckingham Covers are working officially with Cresting Ltd, official event organizers of Dover2009, to produce this [...]

2009 marks the centenary of an extraordinary saga. On 25 July 1909 at sunrise, Louis Blériot, an engineer born in Cambrai and passion for aviation soars Sangatte to join Dover in England, on a plane of his own design.
If all previous attempts have failed, that of Bleriot, and will succeed to posterity.
This year, from April [...]

Louis Blériot was born in the Pas de Calais in 1872. After studying sound engineering at the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures. It will become an engineer in the car and made his fortune in automobile headlamps acetylene before beginning his experiments with the complicity aéronautiques brothers Neighbors. ”
In 1900, Louis Blériot decided to [...]