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A few of the words
- BLERIOT
- Louis Blériot was already a successful inventor of automobile headlamps before he turned his obsession to flight, a fortune spent on crashed prototypes before July 25, 1909 made his name immortal.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CALAIS
- Blériot launched from a field near Les Baraques, just outside Calais, choosing the narrowest practical stretch of the Channel for his crossing.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- MONOPLANE
- His aircraft, the Blériot XI, was a single-wing monoplane of his own design, so influential that its layout is still recognizable in light aircraft today.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PROPELLER
- The engine overheated badly mid-crossing, and it was a fortunate rain shower over the Channel that cooled it just enough to keep the propeller turning all the way to Dover.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Louis Blériot Flies the English Channel: a free large-print word search
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About Louis Blériot Flies the English Channel
On July 25, 1909, Louis Blériot climbed into his fragile monoplane before dawn near Calais and, with no compass and an overheating engine, coaxed his little craft across 22 miles of open sea in 37 minutes. He touched down in a meadow near Dover Castle, becoming the first person to fly across the English Channel and proving, to a world that had barely blinked at the Wright brothers six years before, that the sky was genuinely open for business. The London Daily Mail's prize money was waiting, but the real reward was the sight of that spinning propeller vanishing into the salt haze and returning the world forever changed.
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