Magnificent man takes to the sky

One hundred years to the day after Louis Bleriot claimed his place in aviation history, a restored original of his plane successfully crossed the Channel from France to England yesterday. Complete with a flowing 20th century white flier's scarf,...

One hundred years to the day after Louis Bleriot claimed his place in aviation history, a restored original of his plane successfully crossed the Channel from France to England yesterday. Complete with a flowing 20th century white flier's scarf, leather aviator cap and goggles, French pilot Edmond Salis set off from Les Barraques near Calais - since renamed Bleriot-Plage, or beach - in a 1934 cloth and wood monoplane mounted on bicycle wheels.

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