Dover, Bl?riot Memorial
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Dover, Bl?riot Memorial
Image: © Helmut Zozmann Taken: 25 Jul 2012
On 25 July 1909 Frenchman Louis Bleriot became the first person to fly the English Channel. He was guided by smoke from a French destroyer, sighted land at St Margaret’s Bay, and subsequently made a crash landing in Northfall Meadow, behind Dover Castle. The aircraft was damaged on landing sustaining a broken undercarriage and propeller. The flight lasted just 20 minutes, but was enough to secure the £1,000 prize on offer from the Daily Mail.
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Image Location
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51.13109
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