Publisher's Synopsis
Born into a well-to-do family in the North of France, Louis Blériot, a young engineer became, at the age of 25, a car lamp manufacturer using his own patents for acetylene lamps. After 10 years of research in aviation and more than 30 'crash landings', Blériot became world famous with his historic cross-channel flight from Calais to Dover in July 1909. He then became the first aviation industrialist, producing more that 1000 examples of his cross-channel monoplane, the Blériot XI. Written by the grandson of the famous pioneer, this book provides a comprehensive history of the very first aviation industrialist.
