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- TriviaOn the 25th of July 1909,Louis Blériot became world famous for making the first flight across the English Channel,from Calais to Dover,in a heavier than air aircraft,winning the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper.
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Given the sort of movie that was made in 1909 and the sort that gets a review, you might think this was a slapstick short in which a shabbily-dressed maniac flew some bird-headed combination dirigible balloon and autogyro across the English Channel or perhaps milady's sleeve. Instead, it's a newsreel -- and we can estimate the impact of the event, because in an era when Pathe issued one newsreel a week, they spent half of one concerning the French aviator who was the first man to fly a plane across the English Channel. To put that in context, that's bigger than the current news coverage devoted to the US government and the baseball pennant (it's late August as I write), although if you add in the Kardashians, you've exceeded that slightly.
If you reading this a decade or so after I wrote this and don't know who the Kardashians are, good for you. Bleriot, however, is interesting.
If you reading this a decade or so after I wrote this and don't know who the Kardashians are, good for you. Bleriot, however, is interesting.
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- boblipton
- Aug 22, 2018
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