Blériot XI as first built, with small "teardrop" profile fin on dorsal cabane Lucien Chauvière, designer of the Integrale propeller for the Blériot XI. The Blériot XI, largely designed by …

Principally designed by Raymond Saulnier, the Blériot XI was a tractor monoplane featuring wing warping for lateral control. (Tractor propellers face forward, thereby pulling the aircraft through …

Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (/ ˈblɛrioʊ / BLERR-ee-oh, [3][4] also US: / ˈbleɪrioʊ, ˌbleɪriˈoʊ, blɛərˈjoʊ / BLAY-ree-oh, -⁠OH, blair-YOH, [5][6][7] French: [lwi ʃaʁl ʒozɛf bleʁjo]; 1 July 1872 – …

Jan 23, 2025 · On this day in aviation history, January 23, 1909, the Blériot XI made its first flight. This pioneering aircraft was developed less than ten years after the Wright Brothers flew at …

Oct 2, 2023 · Old Rhinebeck’s Blériot XI offers 35 hp and a top speed of 75 km/h (47 mph). It has a wingspan of 7.79 m (25 ft 7 in), a height of 2.69 m (8 ft 10 in), and a length of 7.62 m (25 ft 0 …

Blériot Aéronautique was a French aircraft manufacturer founded by Louis Blériot. It also made a few motorcycles between 1921 and 1922 and cyclecars during the 1920s. Louis Blériot was an …

Jan 23, 2025 · In 1930, Blériot established the Blériot Trophy, to be awarded to an aviator who demonstrated flight at a speed of 2,000 kilometers per hour (1,242.742 miles per hour) for 30 …

Louis Bleriot's Monoplane, Model XI of 1909, was such an aeroplane, a happy combination of advanced ideas wrapped up in an elegant package. The Bleriot XI was the world's first …

The Blériot XI is an early single-engine single-seat touring and trainer aircraft and a multi-role military aircraft produced by the French Blériot. The Blériot XI is the first aircraft to cross to …

The Blériot XI is a historic French aircraft that is most famous for being the first airplane to cross the English Channel. Designed and built by French aviation pioneer Louis Blériot in 1909, the …