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Название: Cross-Channel Aviation Pioneers: Blanchard and Bleriot, Vikings and Viscounts Автор: Bruce Hales-Dutton Издательство: Air World ISBN: 152677559X Год: 2021 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 240 Размер: 2,4 МБ Язык: Английский
On 25 July 1909, a dapper, mustachioed Frenchman flying a flimsy, diaphanous airplane changed the status of a great nation. "England is no longer an island," declared the Daily Mail. Lord Northcliffe, the newspaper’s proprietor, had put up the £1,000 prize for the first flight of the English Channel by the pilot of an airplane.