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Louis Blériot standing before his Type XI monoplane, which he flew across the English Channel on July 25, 1909. Bleriot Blériot XILouis Blériot flew his XI plane over the English Channel, from Calais to Dover, on July 25, 1909.
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Born July 1, 1872 • Cambrai • France
Died August 2, 1936 (aged 64) • Paris • France

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Louis Blériot standing before his Type XI monoplane, which he flew across the English Channel on July 25, 1909.
Bleriot
Blériot XILouis Blériot flew his XI plane over the English Channel, from Calais to Dover, on July 25, 1909.
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Farman, Henri
Henri Farman
French pioneer aviator and airplane manufacturer
Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Orville Wright
American aviator
Louis-Charles Bréguet
French aircraft builder
Maurice Farman, 1909
Maurice Farman
French aviator and aircraft designer
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Glenn Hammond Curtiss.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
American engineer
Sir Alliott Verdon Roe
British aircraft designer
Eckener, 1931
Hugo Eckener
German aeronautical engineer
Clément Ader.
Clément Ader
French inventor
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre-François
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
French balloonist
R.E.P. No. 2
Robert Esnault-Pelterie
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Pierre Latécoère
French aircraft manufacturer
Charles Renard
French military engineer
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator
Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes
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Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
American aviator
Louise McPhetridge Thaden
American aviator
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran
American pilot
Watch the “Gossamer Albatross” the first human-powered plane crossing the English Channel in 1979
Paul Beattie MacCready
American aeronautical engineer

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