He could almost have taken off with those moustaches alone
He may have collapsed his undercarriage 100 years ago today, when he landed on these shores after his first-ever flight across the Channel, but Louis Blériot was a prototypical example of Homo volans. The whole adventure, with a damaged foot incurred before the flight, was an example of coming in on a wing and a prayer, and only just ahead of competitors whose names failed to register in the historical record. But he certainly looked the part.
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