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#OnThisDay July 25, 1909: Aviation pioneer Louis Bleriot crosses the English Channel in a plane equipped with a Zenith clock. This would be commemorated in later Zenith aviation models. #Aviation #LouisBleriot
Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France. January 2024. The "Blériot XI" airplane that was used on 25/July/1909 by Mr. Louis Blériot in the first airplane crossing of the English Channel (between Calais, France, and Dover, England). That flight made him into a celebrity and his company made around 900 airlplanes that were variations of this Type XI. There was a prize of £1000 offered by a British newspaper to the person who would first achieve the channel crossing by airplane.
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This date in 1909 saw Louis Blériot's historic flight across the English Channel.
Louis Blériot's day job before he got into flying was making car headlamps. In fact, he had developed the world's first practical headlamp for automobiles and was supplying them to the biggest car manufacturers of the day.

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25th July: Louis Bleriot's flight

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#OnThisDay July 25, 1909: Aviation pioneer Louis Bleriot crosses the English Channel in a plane equipped with a Zenith clock. This would be commemorated in later Zenith aviation models. #Aviation #LouisBleriot

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Je ĉi dato en 1872 naskiĝis Louis Blériot, aviadanto, kiu faris la unuan stirilaron (kies aranĝo estas ankoraŭ uzita) por stiri aviadilon, la unuan monoplanon (t.e. aviadilo kun unu paro de flugiloj), kaj la unuan flugon trans la Markolon inter Francio kaj Anglio per pli-peza-ol-aero maŝino. https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bl%C3%A9riot
Bildo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_Bleriot.jpg

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