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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.

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