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102 Years Ago Today

A little after four o’clock in the morning this day 102 years ago, 30 year-old Louis Charles Joseph Blériot, an engineer and early French aviator, was nursing a badly burned foot.  He and two other early pilots, Hubert Latham and … Continue reading

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