Talk:Blériot XI

Aeroelasticity
This plane is famous for the high speed twisting of wings. One of the first identifiable phenomenomenon of Aeroelasticity. Observed in 1911. 54UV1K 13:57, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Unwanted flexibility of the wings was common to most early monoplanes - why they used wing warping - an aileron on a flexing wing tends to act as a tab (in the wrong sense) - most disconcerting!!

Soundofmusicals 13:48, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Materials
A Swedish pilot, who has a replica Bleriot XI, has just said on the BBC that it's made of ash, not oak. Any comments? 77.100.251.80 (talk) 12:29, 25 July 2009 (UTC) Manormadman

WikiProject class rating
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Blériot Penguin trainer
Is the Bleriot XI R1 (Rouleur) the same aircraft as the Blériot Penguin described here and here? Thanks. -- Quiddity (talk) 02:35, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Collings foundation
The Collings Foundation in Stow, MA has a 1909 Bleriot XI that appears to be airworthy. Ljosa (talk) 15:26, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
 * It has an interesting history in that it was one of the Blériots that were sold in kit form in North America. Another similar example exists in the National Aeronautical Collection of the Canada Aviation And Space Museum. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 15:32, 30 March 2012 (UTC).

Thulin A
Four complete examples of the Swedish-manufactured Blériot XI/Thulin A are preserved. Three of these are airworthy: One is owned by The National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm, the other two are privately owned by Mikael Carlson. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cshe 1 (talk • contribs) 13:39, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

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Daily Express headline
The purported Daily Express headline, marked "citation needed" in our article, appears in this paper, where it is cited to this book (Elliot, Brian A, Bleriot - Herald of an Age, Arcadia Publishing (Stroud), 2000, pp 125-6). However, this cartoon from 1909, by Alec Carruthers Gould, published by the Aerial League of the British Empire, has the same caption, and would appear to be more plausible as a source of the quotation.

In short, the headline could be cited to Elliot's book, but I'm reluctant to do so as I'm not convinced it's authentic. Tevildo (talk) 18:15, 7 April 2022 (UTC)


 * It's in Elliot's book and therefore can be cited. I'll have to go back and read Harry Harper's autobiog to be sure, but I believe that in fact the line had been used as a headline previously, possibly after Wilbur Wright's demonstartions in France.TheLongTone (talk) 11:53, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I also fail to see why the cartoon is a more plausible originator of the phrase, btw.TheLongTone (talk) 11:57, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Looking at the Daily Express archives here, they did not use headlines in 1909. High-resolution scans of the paper are only available to subscribers; however, from the public preview, we can see that their edition of 26 July 1909 has a photo on the front page of what might be Blériot's plane, but no obvious headline, and the caption of the photo is only two words.  This might be worth taking to WP:REX, but I'm more convinced that the headline did not appear in the Express at the time. Tevildo (talk) 14:11, 8 April 2022 (UTC)