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Bleriot Images

Full-Size Replica of Louis Bleriot's Bleriot XI

First Airplane to Cross the English Channel, 1909

(Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, TX)

Bleriot XI planeBleriot XI plane
Click on the thumbnail above to see a full-size image.

On the left: Front view of the Bleriot XI replica showing the
three-cylinder radial air-cooled engines. Approximately 20 HP

On the right, rear view of the Bleriot XI replica

Louis Bleriot
Photograph of Louis Bleriot