You all might have tavelled in a aeroplane , Maybe there might be people on blurt who must have travelled on some luxirious of planes as well.
But , today i am going to talk about the aircraft from the year 1909.
Yes , it is known as Bleriot XI.
The Plane was built and first flown by the French aviation pioneer Louis Blériot in 1909.
Yes , the original name is Blériot , it is obviously named after Louis Blériot.
Blériot took his aircraft to fly for the first time on 23rd Jan 1909 near Paris Issy-les-Moulineaux.
t is one of Paris' entrances and is located 6.6 km from Notre-Dame Church, which is considered Kilometre zero of France.
The Blériot was a monoplane that was using wing warping for lateral control.
It was designed by Raymond Saulnier.
Inthe intially the performance of the monoplane was not what Mr Louis expeted but later Blériot improved the initially disappointing performance by doing some changes in the Blériot like :
- Reducing weight of the machine.
- Replacing the original engine designed by Robert Esnault-Pelterie with a 3-cylinder, 25-horsepower, air-cooled Anzani engine that drove a two-bladed Chauvière propeller.
After these improvements Blériot made some more runs in the same year in the month of June , where Blériot made some really impressive flights run.
Blériot was able to fly at the height of 23.5 miles high , at that time it was actually a big achievement.
This historic feat earned him a prize of £1,000 ($144,000 in today's money).
Amazingly, a few of these aircraft are still airworthy. Though it is really next to impossible to think of flying it for a common person.
Actually two models from the 1909 are still airworthy but are preserved in museums in the UK.
Also one builded in 1918 license in Sweden is also preserved in a museum of Science and technology , Stockholm.
These are the oldest aircraft present in the world for now , and still they are flown in the sky as well.
But due to their high fragility the distance is not too much across what these vintage aircraft fy.
That's it for this post.
Thank You for reading.