The first cross-Channel flight

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 [...]