The glorious flight : across the Channel with Louis Blériot, July 25, 1909
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The glorious flight : across the Channel with Louis Blériot, July 25, 1909
Puffin Books, 1987
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Summary: A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Blériot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel
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Winner of the Caldecott Medal, this stunningly illustrated book depicts Louis Bleriot's historic first cross-Channel flight. "Factually accurate, yes-but also a witty pictorial reincarnation of Bleriot's first experience of an airship"--Kirkus Reviews
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