 Louis
Bleriot was born in Cambrai ( France ) on July 1st 1872.He decided that
he would study engineering in Paris. He turned into an inventor, an aircraft
designer and a pilot.
Louis Bleriot was best known for being the first person to fly over a
big body of water He flew over the English Channel on July 25th 1909.
In 1900 Louis built a motor~powered machine called an ornithopter (it
didn't work!).
A £1000 prize was being offered in Newspapers for the first person
to cross the English Channel. Louis decided to try it. He made a monoplane
(It was his 4th one .) He called it Bleriot
XI (of Coarse he won it). It took him 36 minutes and 55 seconds.
Louis then bought aeronautical design and engineering in 1914. Then he
called it Societe Pour Aviationetses Derives (SPAD).During WW1 SPAD built
more then 5,600 aircrafts. Louis Bleriot died on August 2 1936.
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