Louis Blériot: From Acetylene Lamps to Crossing the Channel
The man who climbed into a small monoplane at Les Baraques, just outside Calais, on the morning of 25 July 1909 was not a natural-born flyer. He was a businessman in his late thirties with a badly burned foot, a long record of expensive crashes, and a fortune he had very nearly spent. A few Read article