Reading yesterday's on line report from ITN, I thought that two pilots had successfully recreated Blériot's cross-Channel flight on the anniversary date and I'd assumed that one of them was Mikael Carlson. It turns out that French air traffic control grounded Carlson due to high winds. French pilot Edmond Salis did cross on the appointed date, (accompanied by another pilot in a two-seater replica) whilst Carlson also made it eventually, but a day late.
Needless to say, The Daily Mail manged to turn its headline into an anti-French rant ("Fury as French keep Bleriot's plane grounded on centenary"). A hundred years on and the jingoism hasn't changed.
Anyway, here's Edmond Salis doing it on the day.
Sunday 26 July 2009
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