Louis Blériot: Pioneer Aviator and the First to Cross the English Channel
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Lou blero the first person to cross the sea in an airplane I was the first person to cross the sea from France to England in a heavier than air flying machine I was born in the town of CBRE in France on the first of July 1872 I went to school in my hometown
Then in Aman and finally in Paris as a boy I was especially good at drawing my ambition was to become an engineer when I left the famous echol sentral in Paris I had to join the French army all young men had to do some military service at that time and I was
A soldier for a year after that I took a job with an engineering company in Paris while I was working there I invented something new it was a practical kind of headlamp for the first cars which were appearing in France at that time in 1897 I left the engineering
Company and I started a company of my own I sold my headlamps to famous car makers like Renault my company was successful and in 1901 I was able to marry a beautiful woman called Alise feder I’d been interested in aviation when I was a student but during the Great exhibition
In Paris in 1900 my interest became stronger at the exhibition I saw a kind of airplane called Avan 3 it had been built by an inventor named clo ad that machine didn’t succeed in flying but it made me think about flying machines my headlamp company was earning
A lot of money so I used some of it to build airplanes myself my ambition was to make heavier than air machines which could fly I wanted machines that didn’t need gas inside them fortunately small light engines had recently been invented my machines needed engines like that I
Thought one of my first designs in 1900 was a machine which I called the ornithopter I made several of these machines the ornithopter had engines and it was meant to fly like a bird with wings which moved unfortunately none of the machines worked they didn’t work because the
Design was wrong the moving wings were a mistake so next I started to think about fixed wi airlanes perhaps the movement of the air over the fixed Wings could keep an airplane in the sky I established a company with a man named Gabrielle vaza vaza had already worked on fixed
Sng airplanes but they were gliders these airplanes had no engines so they had to take off from high places now we needed to make machines with engines to pull them forward and pull them up into the sky in 1905 and 1906 vaza and I built several airplanes by this time the right
Brothers in America had already flown in a heavier than air flying machine with engines but the machines that I built with vazan didn’t work well the pilots who tried to fly them weren’t happy they said that the machines were dangerous I was wasting my money while I I was working with
Vaza soon I left the company and I started working alone again the result was the first successful monoplane the monoplane had a single wing it wasn’t like the bip plane the two winged design that the right Brothers used I built several monoplanes each one with changes to its design and from each
Machine I learned something new the blurry 5 model for example flew a short distance but it was unstable and it crashed but when I built Model 11 I’d solved most of the problems this model was much more stable in the air my new airplane could fly but how far could it
Travel could it cross the English Channel the sea between England and France this was my ambition people had flown across the channel in balloons of course this had first happened in 1784 but it was the gas inside the balloons that kept them in the air my
Dream was to fly from France to England in a heavier than air machine many people told me that it wasn’t possible but their doubts made me work harder the English Channel is about 35 km wide at the narrowest place that isn’t very far but until 1909 it was difficult to keep our
Airplanes in the air for more than a few minutes however in that year I thought that my newest machine could succeed there was one way to find out whether I was right there was a good reason to make the attempt then a London newspaper the daily mail had offered a prize of
£1,000 the money was for the first person whose airlane made the crossing there were two other people competing for the prize one of them had already made his first attempt his engine had failed and he landed in the sea fortunately he was rescued the other competitor’s airplane crashed during a test flight
And he was hurt on the 25th of July 1909 when I was ready to make my own attempt I was in pain I’d recently crashed one of my airplanes and burned my foot the pain was bad but I decided to fly that day I took off from an Airfield
In France at about 4:30 in the morning I needed to ascend quickly because there were some Telegraph wires at the end of the field I had to get my machine safely above them my airplane had a 25 horsepower engine was that enough I hoped that it
Was the takeoff was good and soon I was flying over the water at about 70 kmph but the weather changed and it was hard to see any around me to be safe I flew my machine about 75 m above the water it seemed a long time
Before I saw the English Coast below me but in fact the whole flight took just 37 minutes it was good to see the English Airfield ahead of me the strong wind made it hard to land my machine I decided to stop my engine and float down to
Earth because of this I didn’t have much control of the airplane and I touched the ground hard the machine was damaged a little as a result but I’d succeeded I’d flown across the channel I continued to design airplanes during the next years and in 1914 they became much more important
That year the first World War Began Britain and France both fought against Germany by then I was the director of a large airlane company and I had built over 800 machines although the technology was still new and there were many crashes airlanes were very useful during the
War I moved moved my company to England during the war and I stayed there for some years after it we built cars as well as airlanes I started several flying schools in England too but when I was in my 50s I decided to retire after that although I stopped
Flying my interest in aviation continued it was good to see other Pilots break records and attempt long flights for the first time in 1927 Charles Lindberg crossed the Atlantic Ocean flying alone and I was in France to welcome him when he landed and I continued to advise governments about military Aviation
Until my death in Paris on the 1st of August 1936 in that year the feder aeronautic anational established the Lou blero medal in my Honor