BLERIOT FLIES CHANNEL
FIRST TIME SINCE 1909 HISTORIC EVENT RECALLED i LONDON, Aug. 7. For the first time since his historic flight across the Channel, when lie won the £IOOO prize offered by the Daily Mail on July 25, 1809, for the first person to achieve this feat, M. Louis Bleriot Hew across the Channel yesterday. Seventeen years .ago his craft was a tiny, slow-flying monoplane of 25 h.p.; he was then "the pilot. Yesterday he tlew as a passenger m his own "air-oar," a four-seater Spad machine. He was piloted by M. Bajat, one of the foremost airmen in France, who .always takes M. Bleriot about on business. The reason why M. Bleriot has not hitherto made a second flight to Kingland is that when he comes here on business he always catches the night boat. He was able ou this occasion to come in the daytime. He uses his aeroplane in France as other men use their motor-aars. M. Bleriot is 54 years of age.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17158, 7 October 1926, Page 7
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