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PIONEER OF FLYING

DEATH OF M. BLERIOT FIRST FLIGHT OVER CHANNEL (Received August 3, 12.5 a.m.) PARIS, Aug. 3 The death has occurred of M. Louib Bleriot, who was the first man to fly across the English Channel. The late M. Bleriot, who made the first flight across the English Channel in 1909, was born in 1872 $t Cambrai, France. After making a fortune out of a motor lamp which he had invented, he began his experiments in aviation, which after seven years' work, ended so successfully. These lie began at the same time as the Wright brothers in America, and they cost him about) £30,000. Although M. Bleriot had made several important flights irt France, he was hardly known to the British public, when on Sunday, July 25, 1909, be started across the Channel from Calais in the monoplane "Bleriot No. 11." On

reaching Dover he descended on a suitable meadow, where lie was greeted by two Frenchmen. His flight made people realise as nothing before had done that a new era had begun. M. Bleriot was awarded the Daily Mail prize of £IOOO for the first cross-Channel flight. During the war M. Bleriot was a liaison officer between the British and French forces at .Le Mans and Le Havre.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22487, 3 August 1936, Page 9

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PIONEER OF FLYING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22487, 3 August 1936, Page 9

PIONEER OF FLYING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22487, 3 August 1936, Page 9

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