Word: bleriot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hards. To encourage popular flying, the Aero Club of France canvassed its first 100 pilots, found 75 of them living, many engaged in active flying. Among them: Santos Dumont, the Farman brothers, Breguet, Bellenger, Dubonnet, Louis Bleriot, holder of pilots license...
Heroes at the luncheon included Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, first non-stop trans Atlantic aviator, who flew with the late Sir John Alcock from Newfoundland to Ireland eight years before Lindbergh; slightly grizzled Louis Bleriot, first to fly the English Channel, now a millionaire French planemaker; Squadron Leader Augustus H. Orlebar, holder of the world's speed record (357.7 m. p. h.); Flight Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, winner of the Schneider Cup (1929). Wingless heroes included Herbert Wilbur ("Bunny") Austin, British tennis player; Robert Cedric Sherriff, insurance broker, author of Journey's End; John L. Baird, inventor...