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Cross-Channel Aviation Pioneers - Blanchard and Bleriot, Vikings and Viscounts (Hardcover)
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On 25 July 1909, a dapper, moustachioed Frenchman flying a flimsy,
diaphanous aeroplane changed the status of a great nation. 'England
is no longer an island,' declared the Daily Mail. Lord Northcliffe,
the newspaper's proprietor, had put up the GBP1,000 prize for the
first flight of the English Channel by the pilot of an aeroplane.
In securing the prize for one of aviation's most celebrated firsts,
Louis Bleriot had beaten his Anglo-French rival Hubert Latham. Six
days earlier, Latham had become the first airman to make a forced
landing on water when the engine of his elegant Antoinette
monoplane failed while he was attempted the crossing. In this book
the author explores the many and varied milestones in cross-channel
flight, beginning back in July 1785 when John-Pierre Blanchard and
John Jeffries made the first crossing, by balloon. Other flyers
quickly followed Bleriot so that Pierre Prier made the first
non-stop London-Paris flight in April 1911 and Harriet Quimby
became the first woman to fly the Channel a year later. The book
will chart other significant events in cross-Channel aviation such
as the first mid-air collision between airliners flying between the
UK and France, which led to a rudimentary system of air traffic
control, the popularity of car ferry services in the 1950s and
1960s, and the coming of the jets. Other big changes were on the
way. In 1994 Eurostar rail passenger services from London using the
Channel Tunnel were launched. In October 2001, following chronic
air traffic delays during the late 1980s, the European Commission
adopted proposals for a Single European Sky but it comes as no
surprise to learn that during the second decade of the 21st century
this has become bogged down in intra-European politics.
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Imprint: |
Air World
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
December 2020 |
Authors: |
Bruce Hales-Dutton
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5267-7559-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5267-7559-X |
Barcode: |
9781526775597 |
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