Tag: Flight

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25th July 1909: Louis Blériot makes the first powered cross-Channel flight

25th July 2020
Tagged as: Aircraft, Aviation, Daily Mail, English Channel, Flight, France, Invention, Science, Technology

French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft.

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8th March 1910: First female pilot’s license awarded to French actress Raymonde de Laroche

8th March 2020
Tagged as: Aircraft, Equality, Flight, France, Raymonde de Laroche, Women

Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian plumber.

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17th December 1903: Wright brothers make first aircraft flight

17th December 2019
Tagged as: Aircraft, America, Flight, Innovation, Science, Technology, USA

On the 17^th December 1903, American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight.

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