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    Blériot III was an early French aeroplane built by pioneer aviators Louis Blériot and Gabriel Voisin. It was later modified and renamed the Blériot IV...
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    was the first of five children born to Clémence and Charles Blériot. In 1882, aged 10, Blériot was sent as a boarder to the Institut Notre Dame in Cambrai...
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    Blériot Aéronautique was a French aircraft manufacturer founded by Louis Blériot. It also made a few motorcycles between 1921 and 1922 and cyclecars during...
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    The Blériot XI is a French aircraft from the pioneer era of aviation. The first example was used by Louis Blériot to make the first flight across the...
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  • glider 1905 Willows No.1 airship 1905 Wright Flyer III 1906 Blériot III tandem biplane 1906 Blériot IV tandem biplane 1906 Bellamy Floatplane 1906 Crocco...
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    principle was sound. Powered flight followed two years later. In 1906 Louis Blériot built his third aeroplane with tandem elliptical closed wings, later modifying...
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  • Jozé Blériot four-engined bomber Blériot Parasol Blériot I Blériot II Blériot III Blériot IV Blériot V Blériot VI Blériot VII Blériot VIII Blériot IX Blériot...
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    The Blériot SPAD S.510 was a French single-seat, single-engined biplane fighter aircraft. First flying in 1933, 60 were built for the Armée de l'Air (French...
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    continuously, blending smoothly into the wing tips. An early example was the Blériot III, which featured two annular wings in tandem. Annular (cylindrical): the...
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  • fuselage An early example of the closed wing was on the Blériot III aircraft, built in 1906 by Louis Blériot and Gabriel Voisin. The lifting surfaces comprised...
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  • air-cooled rotary piston engine, 60 kW (80 hp) Propellers: 2-bladed "Blériot XL - Blériot 40 - Observation - Un siècle d'aviation française". Aviafrance.com...
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    aircraft, Voisin was approached by Louis Blériot, who asked him to build a similar machine, later known as the Bleriot II. This differed principally in having...
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    The Blériot VIII was a French pioneer era aeroplane built by Louis Blériot, significant for its adoption of both a configuration and a control system that...
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    The Blériot VII was an early French aeroplane built by Louis Blériot. Following the success with the tandem wing configuration of the Blériot VI, he continued...
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    The Blériot 125 (or Bl-125) was a highly unusual French airliner of the early 1930s. Displayed at the 1930 Salon de l'Aéronautique in Paris, it featured...
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    Commons has media related to Blériot 5190. Blériot 5190 (F-ANLE c/n 01) "Santos Dumont" Historic video footage of Blériot 5190 taking off and in flight...
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    The Blériot 127 (or Bl-127) was a monoplane bomber aircraft developed and produced by the French aircraft manufacturer Blériot. It was derived from the...
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  • 7-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine, 37 kW (50 hp) Propellers: 2-bladed "Blériot XXV - avion d'observation - Un siècle d'aviation française". Aviafrance...
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    (78 mph, 67 kn) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blériot XXVII. "Blériot XXVII - Blériot 27 - Course - Un siècle d'aviation française". Aviafrance...
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    The Blériot VI "Libellule" ("Dragonfly"), was built in 1907 and was one of the series of experimental aircraft built by Louis Blériot which eventually...
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  • speed: 90 km/h (56 mph, 49 kn) Service ceiling: 1,000 m (3,300 ft) "Blériot XL - Blériot 40 - Observation - Un siècle d'aviation française". aviafrance.com...
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    The Blériot XII was an early French aeroplane built by Louis Blériot. It was first flown in May 1909 and was the first aircraft to be flown with two passengers...
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    The Blériot XXI was an early French aircraft built by Blériot Aéronautique. The aircraft was a shoulder-wing monoplane powered by a 52 kW (70 hp) Gnome...
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  • Maximum speed: 154 km/h (96 mph, 83 kn) Service ceiling: 2,900 m (9,500 ft) "Blériot Bl-105 - avion de transport civil - Un siècle d'aviation française". aviafrance...
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  • (80 hp) Propellers: 2-bladed Maximum speed: 128 km/h (80 mph, 69 kn) "Blériot XXXIX - avion d'observation - Un siècle d'aviation française". Aviafrance...
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    The Blériot Bl.73, Bl.74, Bl.75 and Bl.76 were large First World War French biplanes designed and built by Blériot. The Bl.73 was built to the BN.3 three-seat...
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  • The Blériot 135 (or Bl-135) was a French airliner of the 1920s, a development of the Blériot 115 with more powerful, radial engines. One of the two built...
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    The Blériot 290 was a 1930s French sesquiplane flying-boat designed by Filippo Zappata, only one was built and it was not ordered into production. The...
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    with fellow French aviator Louis Blériot popularizing Esnault-Pelterie's control format initially on Louis' Blériot VIII monoplane in April 1908, and...
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    The Blériot XIII was an experimental passenger-carrying aircraft built during 1910 by Recherches Aéronautique Louis Blériot. It is notable for setting...
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