In 1909 Louis Bleriot was the first person to fly an airplane across the English Channel, a stretch of water about 20 miles (30 kilometres) across.
By doing this, Belriot won a prize of 1000 pounds, a very large amount in those days.
This video is in French, but shows actual film from Bleriot’s crossing in 1909…
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Roger has plenty of stories to tell about the aviators of years gone by, and the golden age of aviation when anything was possible. We love hearing him talk about the heroes of the past, some famous and others not so -- courageous pioneers who made aviation what it is today.
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