Cross-Channel Aviation Pioneers: Blanchard and Bleriot, Vikings and Viscounts by Bruce Hales-Dutton
English | January 13th, 2021 | ISBN: 152677559X | 240 pages | True EPUB | 2.43 MB
On 25 July 1909, a dapper, mustachioed Frenchman flying a flimsy, diaphanous airplane 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 £1,000 prize for the first flight of the English Channel by the pilot of an airplane.