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 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 [...]

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 [...]

A programme of events in Kent and Pas-de-Calais is aiming to celebrate the centenary of the first cross-Channel flight by Louis Blériot and bring residents from the two regions closer together.
The Channel Hop programme is a partnership project between Kent County Council (KCC) and the Pas-de-Calais Conseil Général. It includes events in both regions, so [...]