Famous airmen and their equipment [electronic resource] : with some notes on first-aid in emergencies (1912)
Burroughs Wellcome and Company · London : Burroughs Wellcome · leaf 38
curved from back to front, and the chassis cosily tucked away under thecovered fuselage. It was in one ofLyrPoeSia0nes these that Louis Bleriot flew theChannel (July 25, 1909) and won thefirst of the famous Daily Mail prizes which havedone so much to stimulate the progress of aviation.The great… … 38 THE EVOLUTION OF FLIGHT The first British subject to mount into his native airon an aeroplane was A. Verdon Roe, who flew atBrooklands in June, 1908, on an Avro biplane, a machine all-British savethe engine,which was anAntoinette. Inthe previousyear Roe hadmade some in-teresting tour-ing flights…
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