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    The previous year, Blériot had experimented with a tandem wing design, the Blériot VI, then built another aircraft, the Blériot VII, in which the rear...
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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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    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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    Aéronautique Louis Blériot" (Louis Blériot Aeronautical Research) at Courbevoie in March 1909. Blériot V Blériot VI Blériot VII Blériot VIII Blériot XI as first...
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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 standardizing...
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    controls that directly led to the modern flight control system, the Blériot VIII in 1908, some designs of early aircraft used "wingtip" ailerons, where...
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    with the Blériot VIII in 1908, he built a new machine along the same general lines, but heavier and with a more powerful engine. The Blériot IX was exhibited...
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    brought together the modern monoplane tractor configuration was the Blériot VIII design of 1908. It had movable tail surfaces controlling both yaw and...
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    in flight, likely due to its unconventional surfaces arrangement. The Blériot VIII, the first aircraft to ever use what became the modern joystick and rudder...
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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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    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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  • 1908. "Louis Blériot - A Study in Trial & Error". thosemagnificentmen.co.uk. Retrieved November 23, 2018. In the new year, 1908, Blériot built another...
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    First use of the modern aircraft flight control system: was in the Blériot VIII, which took to the air with Robert Esnault-Pelterie's control layout...
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  • Blanc et Barlatier Monoplane 1908 Blériot VIII monoplane 1908 Blériot IX monoplane 1908 Blériot X biplane 1908 Blériot XI monoplane 1908 Bocker Triplane...
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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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  • for the first pictures of Edward VIII and the then-unidentified Wallis Simpson and also for his pictures of Louis Blériot (1909) and the Siege of Sidney...
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    primitive ailerons, and made a few more flights. The next year Louis Blériot flew the Blériot VII, a tractor monoplane with full three-axis control using the...
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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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    elevators, and are first known to have been used as such on Louis Bleriot's Bleriot VIII aircraft of 1908, in combination with a foot-operated rudder bar...
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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 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 XIII was an experimental passenger-carrying aircraft built during 1910 by Recherches Aéronautique Louis Blériot. It is notable for setting...
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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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    (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 V was an early French aircraft built by Louis Blériot in 1907 and was his first monoplane. Although Blériot only achieved a couple of short...
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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 110 (or Blériot-Zappata 110) was a high-endurance research aircraft designed and produced by the French aircraft manufacturer Blériot Aéronautique...
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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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    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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  • 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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