Name: Cross-Channel Aviation Pioneers: Blanchard and Bleriot, Vikings and Viscounts
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Author: Bruce Hales-Dutton
ISBN: 9781526775597

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Cross-Channel Aviation Pioneers: Blanchard and Bleriot, Vikings and Viscounts

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Air World

Author

Bruce Hales-Dutton

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781526775597

Synopsis "Cross-Channel Aviation Pioneers: Blanchard and Bleriot, Vikings and Viscounts "

On 25 July 1909, a dapper, moustachioed Frenchman flying a flimsy, diaphanous aeroplane 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 GBP1,000 prize for the first flight of the English Channel by the pilot of an aeroplane. In securing the prize for one of aviation's most celebrated firsts, Louis Bleriot had beaten his Anglo-French rival Hubert Latham. Six days earlier, Latham had become the first airman to make a forced landing on water when the engine of his elegant Antoinette monoplane failed while he was attempted the crossing. In this book the author explores the many and varied milestones in cross-channel flight, beginning back in July 1785 when John-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries made the first crossing, by balloon. Other flyers quickly followed Bleriot so that Pierre Prier made the first non-stop London-Paris flight in April 1911 and Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly the Channel a year later. The book will chart other significant events in cross-Channel aviation such as the first mid-air collision between airliners flying between the UK and France, which led to a rudimentary system of air traffic control, the popularity of car ferry services in the 1950s and 1960s, and the coming of the jets. Other big changes were on the way. In 1994 Eurostar rail passenger services from London using the Channel Tunnel were launched. In October 2001, following chronic air traffic delays during the late 1980s, the European Commission adopted proposals for a Single European Sky but it comes as no surprise to learn that during the second decade of the 21st century this has become bogged down in intra-European politics.

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