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Louis Bleriot was theÊindividual who made the first flight across the English channel. A duck, rooster and a sheep were the first passengers on a hot air balloon.
The Late Harriet Quimby's Flight Across the English Channel - 1912 was released on: USA: 13 September 1912
In 1909 Louis Blériot completed the first flight across English Channel
Louis Bleriot in 1909 made the first flight across the English channel. He developed the first practical headlamps for cars and made a profitable business manufacturing them.
In 1909 Louis Blériot completed the first flight across English Channel
In 1909, Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel, French coast to English coast.
Balloon: J.P.Fr. Blanchard (07.01.1785) Aircraft: Louis Bleriot (25.07.1909)
Gossamer Albatross was the first man-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel on 12 June 1979. It was made of carbon fibre covered by Mylar and weighed only about 220 pounds for the Channel crossing. Invented by Paul McReady and flown by Bryan Allen.
Depending if you mean any air flight of flight to space. First Space Shuttle was Columbia First Successful flight was over the English Channel.
There are two reasons for his fame. He was the first person to cross the English Channel in an airplane. He designed and built the 1909 Bleriot airplane. It was a single wing design, unusual when most planes of the day were biplanes. It had a top speed of 10 miles per hour. He was the first person to build a successful single wing plane, a monoplane. He proved the success by his flight across the English Channel.
Obviously not, or we would be flying instead of walking, but in 1979, Dr. Paul MacCready designed the Gossamer Albatross, a human-powered aircraft which was flown across the English Channel by Bryan Allen.
Amelia Earhart was a brave woman who flew across the Channel. She was the first woman to fly across the Channel around the 1930's-Pro Wiki MemberThe Channel does not enter into Amelia's History, she created an altitude recored first, then numerous solo flight records, notably from Hawaii to US, across the US, and across the Atlantic.