Blériot
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The Blériot was as different from the Wright Brothers’ creation as Grahame-White was from the Wrights themselves.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2022
Grahame-White ordered a plane from France’s Louis Blériot — who in 1909 became the first person to fly across the English Channel — and even worked in the factory to familiarize himself with it.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2022
He didn’t want to disappoint the Benning crowd, so his crew wheeled out the Blériot.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2022
Shortly before his death in 1910, just shy of his 90th birthday, he was able to telegraph his congratulations when Louis Blériot crossed the English Channel in a monoplane.
From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2017
The machines used at this stage are low-powered monoplanes of the Blériot type, which, though being capable of leaving the ground, cannot rise more than a few feet.
From Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun by McConnell, James R. (James Rogers)
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