The first cross-Channel flight

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 [...]

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 [...]