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To commemorate the first flight by æroplane across the English Channel by M. Louis Blériot on July 25, 1909, twenty-five years ago, a demonstration took place at his aerodrome at Hue near Paris on June 23, which was attended by the President of the French Republic, M, Lebrun, Lord Londonderry and Sir George Clerk, the British Ambassador. The old Anzani-engined monoplane in which the flight was made was on exhibition, and in the fly-past which closed the meeting, modern French aircraft scattered flowers upon it. At the time of the flight, M. Blériot was suffering from injuries to his foot and the crutches which he was using were strapped inside the fuselage. During the afternoon, many displays took part in which a squadron of Hawker Fury fighters of the Royal Air Force joined, and in a speech Lord Londonderry said that M. Bleriot found a new high road of the air, which, within the short period of six years from the first flight, was to bo traversed, not by a single Englishman paying a return visit to the coast of France, but by British pilots in their thousands, flying to the help and defence of Louis Blériot's fellow countrymen.
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Blériot's Flight Across the English Channel. Nature 133, 978 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133978a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133978a0