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Title: 'Early Flight' picture card, around 1910 [Go to resource]
Description: The Wright brothers made the first powered flight on the 7th of December 1903. Louis Bleriot made the first successful monoplane in 1909. On the 25th July, 1909, he made the first successful air-crossing of the English Channel, flying a distance of 24 miles. The Daily Mail had offered a prize of £1,000 for the first person to do this. The plane shown on this card looks like a somewhat fanciful version of the 'Bleriot XI', which was used on this bold adventure, so the card may commemorate this event. The plane shown in this view is much larger than most early aeroplanes were in reality. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Publisher: Huntley & Palmers Rights holder: Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) Subjects: social history
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aeroplaneTemporal: start=1910-01-01; end=1910-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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