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The Blériot X was an unfinished early
French
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aeroplane by
Louis Blériot
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot ( , also , ; 1 July 1872 – 1 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of th ...
. Its design was quite unlike anything else he had built and was modelled closely on the successful aircraft of the
Wright brothers: a
pusher biplane
A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While ...
with
elevators and
rudders carried on outriggers. After exhibiting it at the ''
Salon de l'Automobile et de l'Aéronautique'' in
Paris in December 1908, Bleriot abandoned it and returned to developing his increasingly successful
monoplane designs.
Specifications
References
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* Devaux, Jean and Michel Marani. "Les Douze Premiers Aéroplanes de Louis Blériot". ''Pegase'' No 54, May 1989.
Nova: A Daring Flight
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1900s French experimental aircraft
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Canard aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
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