A 1929 press portrait of air flight pioneer Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (1872-1936).He became world-famous for making the first airplane flight across the English Channel, winning £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper

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Size: 4890px × 5906px
Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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