It's been over 120 years since the first powered flight piloted by humans left the ground. Wilbur and Orville Wright took to the skies on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Their ...
Son nom est indissociable de l'histoire de l'aviation : Louis Blériot. En 1909, ce pionnier avait été le premier à réussir la traversée de la Manche dans un aéroplane de sa conception. Hier, cent six ...
Le 25 juillet 1909, Louis Blériot effectuait la première traversée de la Manche à bord de l’aéroplane qu’il avait conçu. Un exploit au retentissement planétaire. L’Audincourtois Jean-Claude Miniggio ...
ETAMPS, France, July 13, 1909 (UP) - The greatest aeroplane flight on record was completed Tuesday by M. Bleriot, the French aeronaut, who made a straightaway flight of 28 miles in 56 minutes. The ...
Son nom est gravé à jamais dans l'histoire des pionniers de l'aviation : Louis Blériot (1872-1936) fut le premier pilote à traverser la Manche en 1909. A partir d'aujourd'hui, les amateurs et les ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Blériot Type XI was designed primarily by Raymond Saulnier, but it was a natural evolution from earlier Blériot ...
"The trip was as easy as sitting at home in an armchair, and I never had any doubt of my success." —Harriet Quimby on her historic Channel flight On August 1, 1911, at age 36, Harriet Quimby became ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
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