Showed your Bleriot pix to the CAHC chief engineer on the Bleriot XI (he loved them) and he said the detail was perfect for the channel crossing aircraft Louis used. It was a one-of-a-kind. No two Bleriots built were alike. The CAHC version being built ...
Showed your Bleriot pix to the CAHC chief engineer on the Bleriot XI (he loved them) and he said the detail was perfect for the channel crossing aircraft Louis used. It was a one-of-a-kind. No two Bleriots built were alike. The CAHC version being built is "La Scarabée", a replica of the one Jacques de Lesseps flew at the 1910 Air Meet in Lakeside, Quebec. It has the Gnome rotary engine, the one you show is powered with an Anzani rotary.
(CAHC=Canadian Aviation Historical Centre, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC)
Posted by Jim Bruce on Wed 06 Feb 2008 12:03:34 PM EST
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show full show summaryShowed your Bleriot pix to the CAHC chief engineer on the Bleriot XI (he loved them) and he said the detail was perfect for the channel crossing aircraft Louis used. It was a one-of-a-kind. No two Bleriots built were alike. The CAHC version being built ...
Showed your Bleriot pix to the CAHC chief engineer on the Bleriot XI (he loved them) and he said the detail was perfect for the channel crossing aircraft Louis used. It was a one-of-a-kind. No two Bleriots built were alike. The CAHC version being built is "La Scarabée", a replica of the one Jacques de Lesseps flew at the 1910 Air Meet in Lakeside, Quebec. It has the Gnome rotary engine, the one you show is powered with an Anzani rotary.
(CAHC=Canadian Aviation Historical Centre, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC)
Posted by Jim Bruce on Wed 06 Feb 2008 12:03:34 PM EST