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- DECEMBER 31, 1910. THE BLERIOT TWO-SEATER MONOPLANE, TYPE XI, 2 BIS. THERK are some names in aviation as in other spheres of life that carry good fortune. Accidents happened to his -machine with unerring with them, apart from the fame of recent successes, a certain glamour regularity up to within a month or two of his great flight. Often inseparable from intimate association with the making of history. he changed his designs, but always did he remain a firm supporter Bleriot is a name like that, for ever since one sunlit morning of July, of the monoplane principle, and now that he has evolved a successful 1908, when he made the first flight across the English Channel on a passenger-carrying machine it is still of this type. , " Flight" Copyright. BLtfRIOT TWO-SEATER MONOPLANE.—View from the side. heavier-than-air machine his name has entered into the records of It was at the historic Rheims meeting of 1909 that M. Bleriot all time. His flight was the first to strike the public imagination. flew his first two-seater, but in this machine the seats were placed Others previously had made longer flights and perhaps more directly below the main planes, and behind the engine—an 8-cyl. meritorious flights, and he himself had put up performances to his E.N.V. The propeller was chain-driven, and geared down. This credit of a much more daring kind, but that one romantic crossing type was but a qualified success. It will be remembered that the of a twenty mile strip of the sea outbalanced all other attainments first machine purchased by Mr. Grahame-White was one of this in the eyes of the world. From that date he and the pilots trained model, and was named by him the " White Eagle." by him, who fly the materialised products of his brain, have stepped In time for the Rheims meeting ot this year, M. Bleriot produced from one success to another until now he stands amongst the half his latest two-seater, which was first seen in England at the dozen who are now supreme in the realm of flight. Bournemouth meeting. In this model the passenger and pilot sit Four or five years have elapsed since M. Bleriot first interested side by side on a seat similarly arranged to that on the single-seater ; himself in a practical manner in the problem of human flight. Nor in fact, the only essential differences from the smaller model are the was his progress to ultimate success at first attended with unvaried wider body and the pigeon-shaped tail. 1068 (ajcHT]
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