Rivendell Bicycle Works introduced a bicycle model named the "Blériot 650B" as a tribute to Blériot
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Louis Blériot
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft. Blériot was the first to use the combination of hand-operated joystick and foot-operated rudder control as used to the present d…
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business · French aviator, inventor and engineer · aircraft pilot · engineer · inventor · aerospace engineer · businessperson · also Louis Blériot, Louis Charles Joseph Blériot, Louis Bleriot, Louis Charles Joseph Bleriot, Blériot
Born 1 July 1872 · Died 1 August 1936 · Q5396
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2002· 1 entry
British train company Virgin CrossCountry named Class 221 221101 Louis Blériot
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1967· 1 entry
Blériot was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame
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1936· 2 entries
Died 1936-08-01.
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The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale established the "Louis Blériot medal" in his honor
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1934· 1 entry
Blériot visited Newark Airport in New Jersey and predicted commercial overseas flights by 1938
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1930· 1 entry
Blériot himself instituted the Blériot Trophy, a one-time award which would be awarded to the first aircrew to sustain an average speed of over 2,000 kilometers per hour (1,242
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1929· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1929).
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1927· 1 entry
Blériot, long retired from flying, was present to welcome Charles Lindbergh when he landed at Le Bourget field completing his transatlantic flight
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1915· 1 entry
Set up the Blériot Manufacturing Aircraft Company Ltd
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1914· 1 entry
Blériot produced about 900 aircraft, most of them variations of the Type XI model
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1913· 1 entry
A consortium led by Blériot bought the Société pour les Appareils Deperdussin aircraft manufacturer and he became the president of the company in 1914
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1910· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy (1910).
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the Crown (Romania) (1910).
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1909· 2 entries
Became world-famous for making the first aeroplane flight across the English Channel, winning the prize of £1,000 (worth £152,113 in 2025) offered by the Daily Mail newspaper
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(making the first airplane flights in both Hungary and Romania)
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1897· 1 entry
Blériot opened a showroom for headlamps at 41 rue de Richlieu in Paris
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1882· 1 entry
Aged 10, Blériot was sent as a boarder to the Institut Notre Dame in Cambrai, where he frequently won class prizes, including one for engineering drawing
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1872· 1 entry
Born 1872-07-01.
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