Does the original cross channel monoplane still exist?
If not, what and where are the remaining pieces? I am aware that it was displayed in the Musee des Arts and Metiers in Paris for the 25th anniversary of the flight, but have not been able to find out anything else to date.
The RAF Museum holds a section of the propellor taken from the crash site, but did anything else survive?
Thanks all….
iain
By: G-ASEA - 3rd October 2008 at 17:46
I beleive there are a few piece’s of the Bleriot in the Dover museum. As it broke its propellor and undercarrage on landing at Dover. I also have a small bit of the prop.
Dave
By: Phantex - 3rd October 2008 at 12:32
Excellent work that man!
By: JDK - 3rd October 2008 at 12:25
Here it is.
Suspended in the Musee des Arts and Metiers in Paris, seen in June this year. Mrs JDK and I voted it a most excellent museum, btw – much more fun and a lot less of a zoo than the Louvre, and this museum is also included in a dribbling conspiracy-theorist’s book too.
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October 3, 2008 at 12:10 pm