The enterprising Gordon Selfridge had the Bleriot XI taken and displayed in his new department store.
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His cloth and wood monoplane, which dates from 1934, is identical to the one Bleriot flew.
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Aviation has been here since 1911, when Roland Garros wafted over the stockyards in his Bleriot monoplane.
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The enterprising Gordon Selfridge had the Bleriot XI taken and displayed in his new department store in London.
Bleriot had 50 accidents while trying to build a plane which would fly.
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The original Louis Bleriot was a car headlamp maker who turned inventor.
Mr Bleriot's grandson, who is also called Louis, watched the aeroplane land.
Like Bleriot, he went to bed on the night of 24 July having requested an early alarm call so he could make an attempt.
It was the English coast and Bleriot flew towards the cliffs.
Then Bleriot got lost.
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