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 [...]

Dover District Council has revealed the details of its plans for a weekend of celebrations next July to commemorate the centenary of Louis Blériot’s epic flight across the English Channel.
Throughout the weekend of 25-26 July 2009, Dover will host a prestigious international festival in celebration of Blériot’s achievement in becoming the first person to fly [...]

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 [...]

Dover is set to come alive for the weekend of 25 – 26 July as it celebrates the hundredth anniversary of Louis Blériot’s epic flight across the English Channel from Calais.
Dover District Council, with Cresting Ltd, the organisers of Dover 2009, has announced the line up for their weekend of celebration at a launch at [...]

In late 1911, Harriet Quimby is determined to become the first woman to cross the English Channel. Another woman Trehawke-Miss Davis has already flown as a passenger.
The feat of crossing the sleeve is for Quimby to achieve, but she is afraid that somebody do it before the exploit. It is therefore a party secretly in [...]

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 [...]