Louis Blériot

Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (Known as "Louis Blériot")

Aviation Pioneer, First Person to Fly Across the English Channel (1909), Manufacturer

Born Jul 01, 1872

Cambrai (Nord), France

Passed Away Aug 01, 1936 Paris, France

Lifespan 64 years old

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"England is no longer an island; the air has become a highway open to all nations."

Archival Overview

Heroic French aviation pioneer and industrialist who made world history on July 25, 1909, by completing the first heavier-than-air flight across the English Channel in his Blériot XI monoplane.

Biographical Record

Graduating from the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Blériot built a fortune inventing automobile acetylene headlamps before pouring his money into aircraft experimentation, surviving dozens of hair-raising crashes.

On July 25, 1909, taking off at dawn from Les Baraques near Calais on crutches due to an engine burn on his foot, Blériot flew his 25-horsepower three-cylinder Anzani monoplane across the choppy English Channel, landing thirty-seven minutes later near Dover Castle. His Blériot XI became the world's first mass-produced monoplane.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial

Gonards Cemetery (Cimetière des Gonards)
Versailles, France

                         GPS: 48.7917, 2.1417                    

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