The first cross-Channel flight

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 [...]

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 [...]