BLEMOT—AIR PIONEER
FIRST CHANNEL CONQUEROR CROSSES AGAIN WILD WELCOME IN BRITAIN (Australian and X.Z. Press Association) (United Service) LONDON, Saturday. M. Louis Bleriot, who was the first man to fly across the English Channel, in 1909, made a commemorative flight today from Le Bourget, Paris, to Dover. The journey was made in the latest Bleriot monoplane. M. Bleriot was accompanied by two navigators and a pilot. Eleven Royal Air Farce airplanes met the Frenchmen near Dover Cliffs and escorted them to Swingate, where crowds of people wildly cheered them. The Mayor of Dover, Mr. H. E. Russell, the French Consul, and the British Director of Civil Aviation, Sir Sefton Branckner, welcomed the flyers in the meadow where M. Bleriot landed 20 years ago after a 37 minutes’ flight, compared with 15 minutes today. M. Bleriot. in an interview, said that with eight refuelling stations in the . Atlantic airplanes would proceed from London to America in 1948 as easily as they flew from London to Paris nowadays.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 727, 29 July 1929, Page 9
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