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Jul 01, 1872 Cambrai, Hauts de France, France Died on 01 Aug 1936 (aged 64)
French aviator, inventor and engineer
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About Louis Blériot
- Louis Charles Joseph Blériot ( BLERR-ee-oh, also US: BLAY-ree-oh, -?OH, blair-YOH, French: [lwi ble?jo]; 1 July 1872 – 1 August 1936) 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 day to operate the aircraft control surfaces.
- Blériot was also the first to make a working, powered, piloted monoplane.
- In 1909 he became world-famous for making the first airplane flight across the English Channel, winning the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper.
- He was the founder of a successful aircraft manufacturing company.
