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Bleriot XI owned by shuttleworth is oldest fly able aircraft in the world (weather permitting) unfortunately you have to be on a Realy calm evening airshow in the summer for the Edwardians to fly so HAVENT seen this one yet

YOUTUBE VIDIO (not mine)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RkJymMK33Zk
This vid shows it flying IRL you should check out the creators YouTube channel cause he has lots of becautiful aircraft vids :)

ME FLYING THIS
https://www.kamcord.com/v/Wxni6V5xy21

WHY THIS IS DIFFERENT TO OTHER BLERIOTS IN THE SITE

REALISTIC COCKPIT VEIW
REALISTIC FRAMEWORK
REALISTIC ENGINE (even has spark plugs)
REALSITIC WING SHAPE
REALISTIC WING WARPING
REALISTIC FLYING WIRES
REALISTIC HANDLING
REALISTIC LANDING GEAR
REALSITIC CRASHABILITY

WHAT ISNT REALISTIC!
It is missing 4 body work struts two near tail and two in cockpit
It's 20mph faster than the real one
It Acctualy has a climb rate....
It doesn't cover you woth oil and give you carbon monoxide poisoning if you fly it!
It isn't 100 years old so you can crash it and not get shouted at!
:)

ENJOY

HISTORY (not many ppl read this bit)
Louis Bleriot was a french engineer who was famous at the time for inventing the first practical car headlamp,
He then turned to aircraft and his first designs were all faliures ..
Mainly to do with the flapping wings he then met pioneer Gabriel Voisin another Frenchman he shows Bleriot a demonstration of a glider he made in 1905. Inspired Bleriot dessigned a similar machine the Bleriot II he then worked with Voisin to create the faliures Bleriot III&IV he then made the canard design (tail Infront of pilot) Bleriot V that unfortunately crashed and ended up arriving at the tractor monoplane design for his Bleriot Vii the xi used the VII design with a more powerful anziani 25hp air cooled 3 cylinder fan engine and a propellor made by LucienChauviere The engine was prone to overheating but was reliable and the propellor was the best in Europe at the time, after he crossed the channel orderes from militaries and aviators poured in and by 1914 almost all military aircraft were Bleriot XI's in the space between 1909-1914 over 900 were made!
This is a replica of The channel XI :)
STATS
Weight 507ibs
Top speed 47mph
Range 75 miles

CONSTRUCTION
it was a wooden frame braced with wires and half covered in fabric all timber was individualy carved and shaped to fit in its place and each wire had to be held in by a tiny metal fitting it was a pain to create Sutch a complex aircraft (IRL)

COCKPIT
it was exposed to rain snow cold and all the weather and had a smokey hot engine a few feet Infront of the pilot the fuel tank was almost in his lap and he only had a wooden and wicker seat so wouldn't be very comfortable the only instrument was an oil pressure gauge and airspeed was judged by the feel of wind on your face (primitive or what!) the other controlls were very modern for the time and similar to today's!


HAVE FUN SORRY TO BORE YOU WOTH ALL THAT ;)