FIRST CHANNEL FLYER
BLERIOT TO REPEAT FEAT OF 20 YEARS AGO British Official Wireless RUGBY, Wednesday. Although 8,000 aircraft flew across the English channel last year it is only 20 years since M. Bleriot made the first cross-Channel flight. If, on that occasion, he had not encountered a heavy rainstorm over the Channel, which cooled the engine of his machine at a critical moment, lie might never have reached England. M. Bleriot proposes to fly across the Channel again on Thursday from France to Dover. He is to be the guest of British aviators and will be escorted to English soil by a squadron of the Royal Air Force. He will be received by the Mayor of Dover, Mr. H. E. Russell, when he alights. Subsequently M. Bleriot will fly to Croydon, where Lord Thomson, Secretary of State for Air. and numerous prominent persons in British aviation will give him an official reception. Later the visitor will be the guest of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 724, 25 July 1929, Page 9
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167FIRST CHANNEL FLYER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 724, 25 July 1929, Page 9
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