Blériot

[bley-ryaw, blair-ee-oh]

noun

1. Louis 1872–1936, French aviator, pioneer aeronautical engineer, and inventor.

Blériot

/ blerjo /

noun

1. Louis (lwi). 1872–1936, French aviator and aeronautical engineer: made the first flight across the English Channel (1909)

Example Sentences

The Times indirectly blamed the brothers’ looming presence for a crash that broke a wing on a Bleriot model plane.

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He demonstrated both to crowds, but it was the Blériot that wowed onlookers.

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The Blériot was as different from the Wright Brothers’ creation as Grahame-White was from the Wrights themselves.

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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.

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He brought two planes to Benning, a Farman biplane and a Blériot monoplane.

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